Linguistic database summaries and their protoforms: Towards natural language based knowledge discovery tools

Information Sciences

Volumn 173, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 281-304

  Kacprzyk, Janusz ^a,b   Zadrozny, Sławomir ^b  

^a WARSAW SCHOOL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b SYSTEMS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Computing with words and perceptions; Data mining; Fuzzy logic; Linguistic summarization; Protoform

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FUZZY SETS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PERSONNEL; SEARCH ENGINES;

COMPUTING WITH WORDS AND PERCEPTIONS; LINGUISTIC SUMMARIZATION; NATURAL LANGUAGES; PROTOFORMS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 19744369239     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2005.03.002     Document Type: Article

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