Indeterminateness in qualitative and quantitative reasoning

Author

Zboril, Daniel ; Metze, Florian

Author_Institution

Inst. fur Phonetik & Sprachliche Kommunikation, Munchen, Germany

fYear

1996

fDate

9-10 Sep 1996

Firstpage

262

Lastpage

267

Abstract

A central issue of expert systems is the man-machine interface. One of its most ergonomic realizations is a natural language interface. Uncertainty and indeterminateness are main properties of a 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 a natural language and (b) provides an instrument for reasoning with information given in a 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

Keywords

common-sense reasoning; expert systems; natural language interfaces; uncertainty handling; expert systems; formalized semantic interpretation; indeterminateness; man-machine interface; natural language information; natural language interface; qualitative reasoning; quantitative reasoning; statistical formalism; trivalent logic; uncertainty; Cities and towns; Ergonomics; Expert systems; Logic; Natural languages; Statistics; Uncertainty;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Database and Expert Systems Applications, 1996. Proceedings., Seventh International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Zurich

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7662-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DEXA.1996.558315

Filename

558315