The Bandler–Kohout Subproduct (BKS) inference mechanism is one of the two established fuzzy relational inference (FRI) mechanisms, the other being Zadeh’s Compositional Rule of Inference (CRI). Both these FRIs are known to possess many desirable properties. It can be seen that many of these desirable properties are due to the rich underlying structure, viz., the residuated algebra, from which t...

This paper presents a sentence extraction method based on Concept Coupling Model, a language model for handling natural language sentence structures. Sentence extraction is performed by retrieving sentences from texts that contain the explicit answer to a user query. The sentence structure representation scheme provided by the model facilitates the retrieval operation which is basically a struc...

In this article, the so-called wh-relative clause construction is investigated. The German wh-relative clauses are syntactically relevant as they show both, root clause and subordinate clause properties. They matter semantically because they are introduced by a wh-anaphor that has to be resolved by an appropriate abstract entity of the matrix clause. Additionally, the wh-relative clause constru...