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The Application of Fuzzy Set to Analysis of Cultural Meaning

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Fuzzy Control

Part of the book series: Advances in Soft Computing ((AINSC,volume 6))

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Abstract

The meaning of any word contains two main elements which might be overlapped in some part, that is, literal meaning and pragmatic meaning. The latter is deeply associated with human activities and surroundings. Therefore, by examining that, we could realize the personal mentality of the reader and social tendency which surrounds him. There have been ever been many studies that tried to realize functions and semantic meanings of hedges. It is assumed that they usually intensify or weaken the overall meaning of a sentence and affect each attribute of words which constitutes a sentence in different ways. In this paper, we take up the word safe as primitive term and combine it with various hedges, chiefly hedges of Type II, to determine the degree of comprehensibility of pragmatic or cultural meaning and calculate it by using Fuzzy measure Learning Identification Algorithm (FLIA) and analyzed it.

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  1. Dept. of Communications and Informatics, Shizuoka Sangyo University, Surugadai 4-1-1, Fujieda, Shizuoka, 426-8668, Japan

    Ikuhiro Koyauchi, Norihide Sano & Hiroyuki Kadotani

  2. Tokyo Institute of Technology (Emeritus Professor), Shizuoka Sangyo University, Dept. of Communications and Informatics, Surugadai 4-1-1, Fujieda, Shizuoka, 426-8668

    Ryoichi Takahashi

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  1. Ikuhiro Koyauchi
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  1. Institute of Process Technique, Automation and Measuring Technique (IPM), University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Görlitz, Theodor-Körner-Allee 16, 02763, Zittau, Germany

    Rainer Hampel , Michael Wagenknecht  & Nasredin Chaker ,  & 

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Koyauchi, I., Sano, N., Kadotani, H., Takahashi, R. (2000). The Application of Fuzzy Set to Analysis of Cultural Meaning. In: Hampel, R., Wagenknecht, M., Chaker, N. (eds) Fuzzy Control. Advances in Soft Computing, vol 6. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-1841-3_22

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