Quantification Research on the Fuzzy Semantics of English Adverbs Based on MMTD

Abstract:

Natural language processing is an important subject in the field of artificial intelligence; one of the key issues is the quantification research on the fuzzy semantics, and the fuzziness of natural language is mostly reflected on the adverbs. This paper presented one new method to quantify the English adverbs. After briefly introducing the Medium Logic (ML) and Measure of Medium Truth Degree (MMTD), commendatory and derogatory were qualitatively described with logical predicates C and C respectively; the truth degree related to C or C of an adverb could be quantitatively calculated by the model proposed based on the existed research achievement of linguistics in this paper. The given computing of frequency adverb and degree adverb shows that above methods to process fuzzy semantics of adverbs is effective.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 846-847)
• Pages: 1308-1311
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.846-847.1308
• Online since: November 2013
• Authors: Jing Yan Zhang*, Long Hong
• Keywords: Adverbs, Fuzzy Semantics, Medium Logic, Quantification, Truth Scale

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