Methods of linguistic deciphering may be regarded as a set of procedures aimed at the recognition of linguistic objects in a text whose language is not known to the investigator. They combine many advantages of the formal approach to language. Assuming that each deciphering procedure may serve as a definition of the respective linguistic object we may view the set of such procedures as a certai...

This paper presents a software tool to extract relevant terms from Portuguese texts. EχATOLP extracts the most frequent noun phrases in an annotated corpus. The annotation is provided by the PALAVRAS parser. The software tool offers different options to improve the quality of extraction that goes from post-treatment of the parser annotation to application of linguistic and statistical criteria....

This paper examines the importance of language in international migration from multiple angles by studying the role of linguistic proximity, widely spoken languages, linguistic enclaves and language-based immigration policy requirements. To this aim we collect a unique dataset on immigration flows and stocks in 30 OECD destinations from all world countries over the period 1980-2010, and constru...

The aim of this paper is to develop some new 2-tuple linguistic hybrid aggregation operators, which are called the extended 2-tuple linguistic hybrid arithmetical weighted (ET-LHAW) operator, the extended 2-tuple linguistic hybrid geometric mean (ET-LHGM) operator, the induced ET-LHAW (IET-LHAW) operator and the induced ET-LHGM (IET-LHGM) operator. These operators do not only consider the impor...

Studies using tests such as digit span and nonword repetition have implicated short-term memory across a range of developmental domains. Such tests ostensibly assess specialized processes for the short-term manipulation and maintenance of information that are often argued to enable long-term learning. However, there is considerable evidence for an influence of long-term linguistic learning on p...

This paper is concerned with some aspects of the relationship between ontologica! knowledge and natural language understanding. More specifically, I will consider how knowledge of ontological domains and knowledge of lexical meaning work together in the interpretation of linguistic expressions. An essential assumption is that in accordance with ontological distinctions there are various semanti...

The usefulness of online geological maps is hindered by linguistic barriers. Multilingual geoscience thesauri alleviate linguistic barriers of geological maps. However, the benefits of multilingual geoscience thesauri for online geological maps are less studied. In this regard, we developed a multilingual thesaurus of geological time scale (GTS) to alleviate linguistic barriers of GTS records a...

Fuzzy similarity measure is very useful in fuzzy information retrieval. This study presents a new method based on fuzzy-number similarity measure to deal with fuzzy information retrieval problems. The proposed method can obtain the suitable retrieval results for the user because it translate the degree of satisfaction F~ into a linguistic term, and user can easily determine whether the retrieve...

‘Linguistic annotation’ is a term covering any transcription, translation or annotation of textual data or recorded linguistic signals. While there are several ongoing efforts to provide formats and tools for such annotations and to publish annotated linguistic databases, the lack of widely accepted standards is becoming a critical problem. Proposed standards, to the extent they exist, have foc...

With respect to the two-sided matching problem, where the agents’ preferences are in the format of multi-granularity uncertain linguistic terms, a matching method is proposed. Some basic concepts and definitions on uncertain linguistic term and 2-tuple are firstly given. Based on this, the two-sided matching problem with multi-granularity uncertain linguistic terms is described. Then, multi-gra...