Describing Linguistic Vagueness of Evaluative Expressions Using Fuzzy Natural Logic and Linguistic Constraints

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61988987%3A17610%2F22%3AA2302IAF" target="_blank" >RIV/61988987:17610/22:A2302IAF - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/10/15/2760" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/10/15/2760</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/math10152760" target="_blank" >10.3390/math10152760</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Describing Linguistic Vagueness of Evaluative Expressions Using Fuzzy Natural Logic and Linguistic Constraints

Original language description

In recent years, the study of evaluative linguistic expressions has crossed the field of theoretical linguistics and has aroused interest in very different research areas such as artificial intelligence, psychology or cognitive linguistics. The interest in this type of expressions may be due to its relevance in applications such as opinion mining or sentiment analysis. This paper brings together Fuzzy Natural Logic and Fuzzy Property Grammars to approach evaluative expressions. Our contribution includes the marriage of mathematical and linguistic methods for providing a formalism to deal with the linguistic vagueness of evaluative expressions by describing the syntax and semantics of these structures. We contribute to the study of evaluative linguistic expressions by proposing a formal characterization of them where the concepts of semantic prime, borderline evaluative expressions and markedness are defined and where the relation between the semantic constraints of evaluations and their sentiment can be established. A proof-of-concept of how to create a lexicon of evaluative expressions for future computational applications is presented. The results demonstrate that linguistic evaluative expressions are gradient, have sentiment, and that the evaluations work as a relation of hypernym and hyponym, the hypernym being a semantic prime. Our findings provide the basis for building an ontology of evaluative expressions for future computational applications.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10102 - Applied mathematics

Project

<a href="/en/project/EF18_053%2F0017856" target="_blank" >EF18_053/0017856: Strengthening the university's scientific capacities II</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Mathematics

ISSN

2227-7390

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

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Issue of the periodical within the volume

15

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

24

Pages from-to

1-24

UT code for WoS article

000839937300001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85136816737