Indeterminateness in Qualitative and Quantitative Reasoning
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چکیده
A central issue of expert systems is the man-machine-interface. One of its most ergonomic real-izations is a natural language interface. Uncertainty and indeterminateness are main properties of 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 natural language and (b) provides an instrument for reasoning with information given in 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 exempliied and compared to related theories.
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