Conceptual defaults in fuzzy ontology

Abstract

The paper explores the fuzzy status of implicit information in natural language text, focusing on conceptual defaults, the routinely omitted information that readers/hearers equally routinely reconstruct. Making this information available to the natural language processing computer is essential, and fuzziness is a major issue. An analysis of 1,000 English sentences has demonstrated a diverse combination of circumstances for detecting and computing defaults with their membership function values.