An inference engine toolkit for computing with words

Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 451-470

  Khorasani, Elham S ^a   Patel, Purvag ^a   Rahimi, Shahram ^a   Houle, Daniel ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computing with words; Expert systems; Fuzzy logic; Knowledge based applications

Indexed keywords

COMPUTING WITH WORD (CWW); DECLARATIVE LANGUAGES; FUZZY ARITHMETICS; FUZZY PROBABILITY; FUZZY QUANTIFIERS; KNOWLEDGE-BASED APPLICATIONS; NATURAL LANGUAGES; THEORETICAL POINTS;

EXPERT SYSTEMS; FUZZY LOGIC; FUZZY SETS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOFT COMPUTING;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84881059951     PISSN: 18685137     EISSN: 18685145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12652-012-0137-8     Document Type: Article

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