Computing Fuzzy Semantic Granules from Natural Language Texts. A computational semiotics approach to understanding word meanings.
Burghard B. Rieger · 1999
The notion of Computing with Words hinges crucially on the employment of natural language expressions. As meaning representations, these are considered observable and accessible evidence of processes of human cognition, represented by textual structures and actualized in processes of understanding. Cognitive processes and language structures are characterized by information granulation, organization, and causation which can be modeled both, in their crisp as well as fuzzy modes of structural and functional processing. Allowing this are intrinsic constraints which may be exploited, analyzed, and represented in a procedural way.