Semantic understanding of general linguistic items by means of fuzzy set theory

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 757-771

  Khoury, Richard ^a   Karray, Fakhri ^a   Sun, Yu ^a   Kamel, Mohamed ^a   Basir, Otman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fuzzy systems; Natural languages; Text processing

Indexed keywords

FUZZY SETS; FUZZY SYSTEMS; INTERPOLATION; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; SET THEORY; STATISTICAL METHODS; TEXT PROCESSING;

FUZZY CLASSIFIER; STATISTICAL-FUZZY METHODOLOGY; SUBJECT-VERB-OBJECT TRIPLETS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 35348827340     PISSN: 10636706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TFUZZ.2006.889817     Document Type: Article

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