Vagueness as probabilistic linguistic knowledge

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6517 LNAI, Issue , 2011, Pages 127-150

  Lassiter, Daniel ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

higher order vagueness; lexical representation; probability; Vagueness

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS; PROBABILITY;

HIGHER-ORDER; LEXICAL REPRESENTATION; LINGUISTIC KNOWLEDGE; LINGUISTIC REPRESENTATIONS; PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES; PROBABILISTIC BELIEF; PROBABILISTIC THEORY; VAGUENESS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 85037730750     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-18446-8_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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