Layman's probability theory: a calculus for reasoning with linguistic likelihood

Information sciences

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 71-82

  Schwartz, Daniel G ^a  

^a Florida State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION THEORY; FORMAL LOGIC; FUZZY SETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY;

HUMAN REASONING; LAYMAN PROBABILITY THEORY; LINGUISTIC LIKELIHOOD;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 0034226314     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-0255(00)00040-2     Document Type: Article

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