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Typicality, graded membership, and vagueness
This paper addresses theoretical problems arising from the vagueness of language terms, and intuitions of the vagueness of the concepts to which they refer. It is argued that the central intuitions of prototype theory are sufficient to account for both typicality phenomena and psychological intuitions about degrees of membership in vaguely defined classes. The first section explains the importance of the relation between degrees of membership and typicality (or goodness of example) in conceptual categorization. The second and third section address arguments advanced by Osherson and Smith (1997), and Kamp and Partee (1995), that the two notions of degree of membership and typicality must relate to fundamentally different aspects of conceptual representations. A version of prototype theoryâthe Threshold Modelâis proposed to counter these arguments and three possible solutions to the problems of logical selfcontradiction and tautology for vague categorizations are outlined. In the final section graded membership is related to the social construction of conceptual boundaries maintained through language use
Implementation of an efficient Fuzzy Logic based Information Retrieval System
This paper exemplifies the implementation of an efficient Information
Retrieval (IR) System to compute the similarity between a dataset and a query
using Fuzzy Logic. TREC dataset has been used for the same purpose. The dataset
is parsed to generate keywords index which is used for the similarity
comparison with the user query. Each query is assigned a score value based on
its fuzzy similarity with the index keywords. The relevant documents are
retrieved based on the score value. The performance and accuracy of the
proposed fuzzy similarity model is compared with Cosine similarity model using
Precision-Recall curves. The results prove the dominance of Fuzzy Similarity
based IR system.Comment: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with
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On the similarity relation within fuzzy ontology components
Ontology reuse is an important research issue. Ontology
merging, integration, mapping, alignment and versioning
are some of its subprocesses. A considerable research work has
been conducted on them. One common issue to these subprocesses
is the problem of defining similarity relations among ontologies
components. Crisp ontologies become less suitable in all domains
in which the concepts to be represented have vague, uncertain
and imprecise definitions. Fuzzy ontologies are developed to
cope with these aspects. They are equally concerned with the
problem of ontology reuse. Defining similarity relations within
fuzzy context may be realized basing on the linguistic similarity
among ontologies components or may be deduced from their
intentional definitions. The latter approach needs to be dealt
with differently in crisp and fuzzy ontologies. This is the scope
of this paper.ou
CHORUS Deliverable 2.1: State of the Art on Multimedia Search Engines
Based on the information provided by European projects and national initiatives related to multimedia search as well as domains experts that participated in the CHORUS Think-thanks and workshops, this document reports on the state of the art related to multimedia content search from, a technical, and socio-economic perspective.
The technical perspective includes an up to date view on content based indexing and retrieval technologies, multimedia search in the context of mobile devices and peer-to-peer networks, and an overview of current evaluation and benchmark inititiatives to measure the performance of multimedia search engines.
From a socio-economic perspective we inventorize the impact and legal consequences of these technical advances and point out future directions of research
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