In this paper, a variable-precision dominance-based rough set approach (VP-DRSA) is proposed together with several VP-DRSA-based approaches to attribute reduction. The properties of VP-DRSA are shown in comparison to previous dominance-based rough set approaches. An advantage of VP-DRSA over variable-consistency dominance-based rough set approach in decision rule induction is emphasized. Some r...

Electronic databases are increasingly popular tools in typological research. Despite the advantages of such tools, there are problems connected both with their construction and with their standardization. For instance, there is generally a considerable gap between the information stored in typological databases and primary data: primary morphosyntactic data are much more difficult to handle com...

In this paper we present a novel application of compositional distributional semantic models (CDSMs): prediction of lexical typology. The paper introduces the notion of typological closeness, which is a novel rigorous formalization of semantic similarity based on comparison of multilingual data. Starting from the Moscow Database of Qualitative Features for adjective typology, we create four dat...

In this chapter, we critically examine Talmy’s typological classification of complex events. Talmy first proposed a typological classification of motion events over thirty years ago (Talmy 1972, 1974, 1985); he later extended his typological classification to events in general, particularly, events with resulting states (Talmy 1991, 2000). Talmy’s extension of his typological classification ref...

The study contains the theoretical review of different historical approaches to the study of typological properties of a man. One of the well-known typological systems in foreign psychology has been developed in constitutionology, juvenility characteristics, however, haven’t been included in its structure. On the basis of the studied samples the authors of the research consider the empirical pr...