-In this work we present the methods of creating the knowledge bases by using the theory of fuzzy systems as well as the probability and stochastic processes theory. We show that such knowledge-based systems can be applied in different diagnostic tasks. The structure of the reason-result fuzzy model is predefined by experts at the beginning of the task. The notion of probability of fuzzy events...

In this paper, we investigate the multiple attribute decision making (MADM) problem based on the arithmetic and geometric aggregation operators with hesitant fuzzy linguistic information. Then, motivated by the idea of traditional arithmetic operation, we have developed some aggregation operators for aggregating hesitant fuzzy linguistic information: hesitant fuzzy linguistic weighted average (...

Since the early studies by Sokal (1988) and Cavalli-Sforza et al. (1989), there has been an increasing interest in depicting the history of human migrations by comparing genetic and linguistic differences that mirror different aspects of human history. Most of the literature concerns continental or macroregional patterns of variation, while regional and microregional scales were investigated le...

In the context of culture-aware robotics, we propose a method for the explicit, on-line mapping between cultural variables and robot behaviour parameters which relies on the linguistic variable formalism, fuzzy clustering and the principles of fuzzy controllers. As a case study, we consider the adaptation of the Human-Robot conversational distance to Hofstede’s cultural dimension of Individualism.

We present a methodology to extract Selectional Restrictions at a variable level of abstraction from phrasally analyzed corpora. The method relays in the use of a wide-coverage noun taxonomy and a statistical measure of the co-occurrence of linguistic items. Some experimental results about the performance of the method are provided.

The tutorial gave an overview of the treatment of variable binding in natural language semantics. A set of data was singled out, two families of approaches to deal with reflexivity were presented which yield a comparable data coverage, and the cross-linguistic variation of reflexivization strategies was reviewed. The modelling options map neatly onto the variation found in natural

This paper explores the linguistic and technical challenges in creating a typological database for demonstrative and personal pronouns. Our database identifies a fundamental difference between morphological (or semantic) features that are relatively fixed across languages and those that are highly variable from one language to the next.

We present a methodology to extract Selectional Restrictions at a variable level of abstract ion from phrasally analyzed corpora. The method relays ia the use of a wide-coverage noun taxonomy and a statistical measure of the co-occurrence of linguistic items. Some experimental results about the performance of the method are provided.

Because many of the forms participating in inherent variability are not attested in the standard language, they are often construed as evidence of change. We test this assumption by confronting the standard, as instantiated by a unique corpus covering five centuries of French grammatical injunctions, with data on the evolution of spontaneous speech over an apparent-time span of 119 years. Reaso...