Title :
Fuzzy translation tool for linguistic terms
Author :
Verkeyn, Andy ; Botteldoor, Dick
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Technol., Ghent Univ., Belgium
Abstract :
An automatic translation tool for linguistic terms is built. The terms are represented by fuzzy sets and the translations are based on the similarity degree between those fuzzy sets. The tool is tested on 21 adverbs in 9 languages. The fuzzy sets are constructed with a probability based approach, based on data from an International study on the choice of appropriate terms to label a noise annoyance scale. The results are in agreement with common sense translations. A detailed sensitivity analysis shows that the procedure is stable for many operator choices.
Keywords :
computational linguistics; fuzzy set theory; language translation; probability; sensitivity analysis; automatic translation tool; fuzzy sets; fuzzy translation tool; linguistic terms; noise annoyance scale; probability; sensitivity analysis; Fuzzy sets; Information technology; Performance evaluation; Pollution; Sensitivity analysis; Terminology; Testing; Working environment noise;
Conference_Titel :
Fuzzy Systems, 2004. Proceedings. 2004 IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8353-2
DOI :
10.1109/FUZZY.2004.1375574
