Domain representation using possibility theory: An exploratory study

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1531-1541

  Khoury, Richard ^a   Karray, Fakhreddine ^a   Kamel, Mohamed S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

"Fuzzy"; Language models; Natural language processing (NLP); Probabilistic reasoning; Text analysis; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFORMATION THEORY; LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

'FUZZY'; LANGUAGE MODELS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (NLP); PROBABILISTIC REASONING; TEXT ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 58149526366     PISSN: 10636706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TFUZZ.2008.2005011     Document Type: Article

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