An Empirical Approach for Modeling Fuzzy Geographical Descriptors

Alejandro Ramos Soto; Jose Alonso; Ehud Baruch Reiter; Kees van Deemter; Albert Gatt

doi:10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2017.8015527

An Empirical Approach for Modeling Fuzzy Geographical Descriptors

Alejandro Ramos Soto, Jose Alonso, Ehud Baruch Reiter, Kees van Deemter, Albert Gatt

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Abstract

We present a novel heuristic approach that defines fuzzy geographical descriptors using data gathered from a survey with human subjects. The participants were asked to provide graphical interpretations of the descriptors ‘north’ and ‘south’ for the Galician region (Spain). Based on these interpretations, our approach builds fuzzy descriptors that are able to compute membership degrees for geographical locations. We evaluated our approach in terms of efficiency and precision. The fuzzy descriptors are meant to be used as the cornerstones of a geographical referring expression generation algorithm that is able to linguistically characterize
geographical locations and regions. This work is also part of a general research effort that intends to establish a methodology which reunites the empirical studies traditionally practiced in data-to-text and the use of fuzzy sets to model imprecision and vagueness in words and expressions for text generation purposes

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2017 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE)
Publisher	IEEE Explore
Pages	1-6
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-5090-6034-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2017.8015527
Publication status	Published - 2017
Event	IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE), 2017 - Naples, Italy Duration: 9 Jul 2017 → 12 Jul 2017

Conference

Conference	IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE), 2017
Abbreviated title	(FUZZ-IEEE)
Country	Italy
City	Naples
Period	9/07/17 → 12/07/17

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Ramos Soto, A., Alonso, J., Reiter, E. B., van Deemter, K., & Gatt, A. (2017). An Empirical Approach for Modeling Fuzzy Geographical Descriptors. In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE) (pp. 1-6). IEEE Explore. https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2017.8015527

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