Fuzziness and variability in natural language processing

This paper aims to establish a link between linguistics and fuzzy phenomena. Throughout the history, linguistics has been relying on discrete descriptions to explain Natural Language Processing. This fact has a negative impact in various areas of language and technology since linguistics rejects all...

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Published inIEEE International Fuzzy Systems conference proceedings pp. 1 - 6
Main Authors Torrens Urrutia, Adria, Jimenez Lopez, Maria Dolores, Blache, Philippe
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.07.2017
Subjects
Cognition
Grammar
Natural languages
Pragmatics
Speech
Syntactics
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Summary:This paper aims to establish a link between linguistics and fuzzy phenomena. Throughout the history, linguistics has been relying on discrete descriptions to explain Natural Language Processing. This fact has a negative impact in various areas of language and technology since linguistics rejects all the inputs which are out from a discrete rule. Although this paper might approach the subject more from a linguistic than from a mathematical point of view, we present the theoretical considerations and reasoning used in elaborating a formal characterization of fuzziness in natural language grammars. Property Grammars will be used as the formal theory in order to explain Natural Language fuzziness and variability.
ISSN:1558-4739
DOI:10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2017.8015692