• DocumentCode
    3317692
  • Title

    The Parametric Modification of Fuzzy Sets Constituting a Content of Medical Linguistic Variables

  • Author

    Rakus-Andersson, Elisabeth

  • Author_Institution
    Blekinge Inst. of Technol., Karlskrona
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    23-26 July 2007
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    6
  • Abstract
    One of the most important features of fuzzy set theory is its potential for the modeling of natural language expressions. Most works done on this topic focus on some parts of natural language, mostly those that correspond to the so-called "evaluating linguistic expressions". We build constraints for the mathematical substitutes of these expressions to mark characteristic limits on an ordered scale. We discuss a case of creating the total list of terms of the linguistic variable "symptom presence in diagnosis\´\´\´\´ replaced by fuzzy sets all emerging from one presence description "seldom". To accomplish this task we insert a particular parameter in the membership functions of the sets.
  • Keywords
    computational linguistics; fuzzy set theory; medical information systems; natural language processing; vocabulary; fuzzy set theory; medical linguistic variable; membership function; natural language expression modeling; patient symptom diagnosis; verbal description; Biological system modeling; Equations; Fuzzy set theory; Fuzzy sets; Mathematical model; Mathematics; Medical diagnostic imaging; Natural languages; Shape;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Fuzzy Systems Conference, 2007. FUZZ-IEEE 2007. IEEE International
  • Conference_Location
    London
  • ISSN
    1098-7584
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-1209-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1098-7584
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/FUZZY.2007.4295489
  • Filename
    4295489