The complexity and impact of many real world decision making problems lead to the necessity of considering multiple points of view, building group decision making problems in which a group of experts provide their preferences to achieve a solution. In such complex problems uncertainty is often present and although the use of linguistic information has provided successful results in managing it,...

Abstract The study of linguistic devices variously referred to as stance expressions is one of the best means by which the relationship between the writer, the reader, and propositional meaning could be examined. This paper looks at a particular structural group of lexical bundles encoding stance expressions. These are bundles starting with an anticipatory it followed by is, a predicative adjec...

PLCA is a framework for qualitative spatial reasoning that uses symbolic objects and the relationships between them. The second and third authors introduced inductive constructions to show construction of a PLCA expression. They also proved that expressions obtained by inductive constructions are planar (planarity) and that planar PLCA expressions can be obtained using inductive constructions (...

Abstract The study of linguistic devices variously referred to as stance expressions is one of the best means by which the relationship between the writer, the reader, and propositional meaning could be examined. This paper looks at a particular structural group of lexical bundles encoding stance expressions. These are bundles starting with an anticipatory it followed by is, a predicative adjec...

The article analyzes the structure and features of lexico-semantic field (of word) "sanction" in Russian political sphere; author discuss semantic connections its lexical units metaphorical models this word discourse language. subject study is content term under consideration, presented on website Kremlin.ru National Corpus. purpose to analyze a fragment picture world reflected field. To achiev...

We propose a statistical measure for the degree of acceptability of light verb constructions, such as take a walk, based on their linguistic properties. Our measure shows good correlations with human ratings on unseen test data. Moreover, we find that our measure correlates more strongly when the potential complements of the construction (such as walk, stroll, or run) are separated into semanti...