PNL: Precisiated natural language and its impact on scientific theories
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It is a deep-seated tradition in science to view the use of natural languages in scientific theories as a manifestation of mathematical immaturity. The rationale for this tradition is that natural languages are lacking in precision. However, what is not widely recognized is that adherence to this tradition canies a steep price-the inability to exploit the richness of natural languages in a way that lends itself to computation and automated reasoning.
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Precisiated Natural Language (PNL)
74 AI MAGAZINE ■ This article is a sequel to an article titled “A New Direction in AI—Toward a Computational Theory of Perceptions,” which appeared in the Spring 2001 issue of AI Magazine (volume 22, No. 1, 73–84). The concept of precisiated natural language (PNL) was briefly introduced in that article, and PNL was employed as a basis for computation with perceptions. In what follows, the conce...
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تاریخ انتشار 2001