Title :
The Parametric Modification of Fuzzy Sets Constituting a Content of Medical Linguistic Variables
Author :
Rakus-Andersson, Elisabeth
Author_Institution :
Blekinge Inst. of Technol., Karlskrona
Abstract :
One of the most important features of fuzzy set theory is its potential for the modeling of natural language expressions. Most works done on this topic focus on some parts of natural language, mostly those that correspond to the so-called "evaluating linguistic expressions". We build constraints for the mathematical substitutes of these expressions to mark characteristic limits on an ordered scale. We discuss a case of creating the total list of terms of the linguistic variable "symptom presence in diagnosis\´\´\´\´ replaced by fuzzy sets all emerging from one presence description "seldom". To accomplish this task we insert a particular parameter in the membership functions of the sets.
Keywords :
computational linguistics; fuzzy set theory; medical information systems; natural language processing; vocabulary; fuzzy set theory; medical linguistic variable; membership function; natural language expression modeling; patient symptom diagnosis; verbal description; Biological system modeling; Equations; Fuzzy set theory; Fuzzy sets; Mathematical model; Mathematics; Medical diagnostic imaging; Natural languages; Shape;
Conference_Titel :
Fuzzy Systems Conference, 2007. FUZZ-IEEE 2007. IEEE International
Conference_Location :
London
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-1209-9
Electronic_ISBN :
1098-7584
DOI :
10.1109/FUZZY.2007.4295489