Many natural language quantifiers are classically associated with a stringent binary semantics, and similarly categorical pragmatic enrichments. But much experimental data shows that intuitions about appropriateness of use seem to be more fuzzy and more subtle, yet highly regular nonetheless. To account for these gradient typicality judgements, I sketch a new probabilistic model of Gricean spea...

In [1, 2] we studied various concepts of bipolar queries (cf. Dubois and Prade [3]). We advocated there the use of a fuzzified version of the original crisp definition introduced by Lacroix and Lavency [4]. However, the fuzzification proposed, as general as it was, leaves open the choice of a representation of logical entities, notably the logical connectives and quantifiers. In the present pap...

Most fuzzy systems including fuzzy decision support and fuzzy control systems provide out­ puts in the form of fuzzy sets that represent the inferred conclusions. Linguistic interpretation of such outputs often involves the use of linguistic approximation that assigns a linguistic label to a fuzzy set based on the predefined primary terms, linguistic modifiers and linguistic connectives. More g...

environmental factors are one of the most sensitive issues that should be considered in many decisions. site selection is one of the most widely used spatial decision making problems and is influenced by many environmental factors. the purpose of site selection is to find a set of appropriate spatial alternatives for a particular application. site selection is a multi-criteria decision making p...

Some new algebras, which are possible denotations for various determiners, are studied. One of them is the algebra of generalised cardinal quantifiers which is a sub-algebra of conservative quantifiers and which contains cardinal, co-cardinal and proportional quantifiers. In addition some non-conservative quantifiers are studied (symmetric, contrapositional and fixed points with respect to the ...