• DocumentCode
    230070
  • Title

    Fuzziness, uncertainty, vagueness, possibility, and probability in natural language

  • Author

    Raskin, Victor ; Taylor, J.M.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of English & Linguistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    24-26 June 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    6
  • Abstract
    The paper reviews the status of fuzziness, vagueness, uncertainty, and probability in natural language with an emphasis on: aspects of natural language that pertain to each of the four phenomena; methods of their modeling and representation; computational treatment of these phenomena in natural language and information processing. The main thrust of the paper is the procedure for calculating the predominant type of uncertainty for a NL sentence.
  • Keywords
    fuzzy set theory; natural language processing; probability; NL sentence; information processing; natural language fuzziness; natural language possibility; natural language probability; natural language uncertainty; natural language vagueness; Dictionaries; Fuzzy logic; Natural languages; Possibility theory; Semantics; Uncertainty; computational semantics; fuzziness; possibility; probability; uncertainty; vagueness;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century (21CW), 2014 IEEE Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Boston, MA
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/NORBERT.2014.6893868
  • Filename
    6893868