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A random set and prototype theory interpretation of intuitionistic fuzzy sets [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
An interpretation of intuitionistic fuzzy sets is proposed based on random set theory and prototype theory. The extension of fuzzy labels are modelled by lower and upper random set neighbourhoods, identifying those element of the universe within an ...
Lawry, Jonathan, Jonathan Lawry
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Prototype Theory in the Judicial Practice of the Court of Justice of the European Union. A Case Study

open access: yesComparative Legilinguistics, 2020
Prototype theory is a semantic theory according to which the membership of conceptual categories is based not on a list of criterial features, but rather on the similarity to the most representative member of the category.
Zeifert Mateusz
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A Few Remarks on Prototype Theory in Cognitive Linguistics [PDF]

open access: yesLanguage, Culture, Politics, 2021
The purpose of the present paper is to demonstrate both the historical background of the prototype theory and its denitional problems. It presents two fundamental tenets of cognitive linguistics and the origin of prototype theory.
Alicja Cuper, Małgorzata Cuper-Ferrigno
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The Application of the Prototype Theory in Lexicographic Practice: A Proposal of a Model for Lexicographic Treatment of Polysemy

open access: yesLexikos, 2016
The aim of this paper is to point to fundamental implications of the prototype theory for lexicographic practice using them as a solid foundation for developing and proposing a model for systematic, consistent, precise and, above all, reliable treatment ...
Ana Halas
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Default Inheritance in Modified Statements: Bias or Inference?

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
It is a fact that human subjects rate sentences about typical properties such as “Ravens are black” as very likely to be true. In comparison, modified sentences such as “Feathered ravens are black” receive lower ratings, especially if the modifier is ...
Corina Strößner
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Local feature weighting in nearest prototype classification [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The distance metric is the corner stone of nearest neighbor (NN)-based methods, and therefore, of nearest prototype (NP) algorithms. That is because they classify depending on the similarity of the data.
Isasi, Pedro   +2 more
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Extended Thematic Progression

open access: yesMiscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2001
Traditional and contemporary accounts of speech acts (Searle 1969, 1979; Wierzbicka 1987) display a great deal of variation regarding the categorization of the acts of threatening, inviting, and offering as either directive or commissive.
Pablo Ortega Gil
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A proposal for the application of prototype theory to the lexicographic treatment of polysemy in Serbian [PDF]

open access: yesJužnoslovenski Filolog, 2018
This paper has proposed a model of treatment of polysemy in monolingual dictionaries of Serbian, which is based on the idea of the solid grounding of lexicographic practice in cognitive linguistic theory.
Halas-Popović Ana V.
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Evidential Modals at the Semantic-Argumentative Interface: Appearance Verbs as Indicators of Defeasible Argumentation

open access: yesInformal Logic, 2014
This contribution aims at providing an argumentative method to account for epistemic modality and evidentiality. I claim that these two linguistic categories can work as semantic components of defeasible argumentative schemes based on classification ...
Elena Musi
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Evolutionary design of nearest prototype classifiers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
In pattern classification problems, many works have been carried out with the aim of designing good classifiers from different perspectives. These works achieve very good results in many domains.
Isasi, Pedro   +2 more
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