A hierarchical model of a linguistic variable

  • Authors:
  • Adolfo R. de Soto

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Industrial Engineering and Computer Science, University of León, 24071 LEON, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Information Sciences: an International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In this work a theoretical hierarchical model of dichotomous linguistic variables is presented. The model incorporates certain features of the approximate reasoning approach and others of the Fuzzy Control approach to Fuzzy Linguistic Variables. It allows sharing of the same hierarchical structure between the syntactic definition of a linguistic variable and its semantic definition given by fuzzy sets. This fact makes it easier to build symbolic operations between linguistic terms with a better grounded semantic interpretation. Moreover, the family of fuzzy sets which gives the semantics of each linguistic term constitutes a multiresolution system, and thanks to that any fuzzy set can be represented in terms of the set of linguistic terms. The model can also be considered a general framework for building more interpretable fuzzy linguistic variables with a high capacity of accuracy, which could be used to build more interpretable Fuzzy Rule Based Systems (FRBS).