AXLER%upenn-1100.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa (03/27/84)
From: David M. Axler <AXLER%upenn-1100.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa>
Some very interesting early work on the applications of fuzzy set
theory to language behavior was done at the Language Behavior Research
Laboratory out at U. Cal - Berkeley. Much of this was later available
via the Lab's series of Working Papers and Monographs. Of interest to
AI researchers concerned w/language processing and/or fuzzy sets are:
Monograph #3, "Natural Information Processing Rules: Formal Theory and
Applications to Ethnography", William H. Geoghegan, 2/73.
Working Paper #43, "Basic Objects in Natural Categories", Eleanor Rosch,
Carolyn B. Mervis, Wayne Gray, David Johnson, and Penny Boyes-Braem, 1975.
Working Paper #44, "Color Categories as Fuzzy Sets", Paul Kay and Chad
McDaniel, 1975.
My list of the available papers is severely out of date, and I strongly
suspect that there's a fair amount of later work also available. Those
interested should write to the lab, as follows:
University of California
Language Behavior Research Laboratory
2220 Piedmont Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94720
(If anyone out at Berkeley would like to fill the list in on more recent
and relevant work from the lab, great...)
--Dave Axler