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Indeterminateness in Qualitative and Quantitative Reasoning (1996)
| Venue: | in: Seventh International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications; IEEE Computer Sciences, Los Alamitos |
| Citations: | 1 - 1 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Zboril96indeterminatenessin,
author = {Daniel Zboril and Florian Metze},
title = {Indeterminateness in Qualitative and Quantitative Reasoning},
booktitle = {in: Seventh International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications; IEEE Computer Sciences, Los Alamitos},
year = {1996},
pages = {262--267}
}
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Abstract
A central issue of expert systems is the manmachine -interface. One of its most ergonomic realizations is a natural language interface. Uncertainty and indeterminateness are main properties of natural language. While there are many formalisms dealing with uncertainty, there still is a strong need of those modeling indeterminateness. Therefore a formalism is presented which (a) formalizes the semantic interpretation of natural language and (b) provides an instrument for reasoning with information given in natural language. After a short outline of the problem the theoretical foundations are discussed, showing that it can be solved by a statistical formalism based on a trivalent logic. Finally the formalism is exemplified and compared to related theories. 1. Introduction Asking for the percentage of people in California who made more than $ 100.000 as their income in 1994 Jan de Leeuw [7] mentions the following difficulties: (1) If a thief steals money, is that income? (2) How about cap...
Keyphrases
quantitative reasoning natural language statistical formalism trivalent logic theoretical foundation thief steal money central issue many formalism main property following difficulty natural language interface strong need short outline ergonomic realization semantic interpretation related theory expert system manmachine interface
