Describing linguistic information in a behavioural framework: Possible or not?
Gert de Cooman · 1996
The paper discusses important aspects of the representation of linguistic information, using imprecise probabilities with a behavioural interpretation. We define linguistic information as the information conveyed by statements in natural language, but restrict ourselves to simple affirmative statements of the type `subject-is-predicate'. Taking the behavioural stance, as it is described in detail in [24], we investigate whether it is possible to give a mathematical model for this kind of information. In particular, we evaluate Zadeh's suggestion [28] that we should use possibility measures to this end. We come to the conclusion that, generally speaking, possibility measures are possible models for linguistic information, but that more work should be done in order to evaluate the suggestion that they may be the only ones.