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Comprehensiveness of Linguistic Data Summaries: A Crucial Role of Protoforms

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Computational Intelligence in Intelligent Data Analysis

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We show first the essence of our approach to linguistic database summaries, equated with linguistically quantified propositions in Zadeh’s sense and mined through the use of a fuzzy querying interface to a database. We recast the problem from the perspective of comprehensiveness of patterns derived by linguistic data summaries. Motivated by Michalski’s [21] seminal approach to the comprehensiveness of data mining and machine learning results in which he advocates the use of natural language, we advocate the use of linguistic summaries which provide a new quality and an exceptional human consistency and comprehensiveness. We illustrate our analysis by two examples related to the linguistic summarization of both static and dynamic data in the area of analysis of innovativeness of companies and of Web server log files.

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  1. Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, 01-447, Warsaw, Poland

    Janusz Kacprzyk & Sławomir Zadrożny

  2. Warsaw School of Information Technology, 01-447, Warszawa, Poland

    Sławomir Zadrożny

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Kacprzyk, J., Zadrożny, S. (2013). Comprehensiveness of Linguistic Data Summaries: A Crucial Role of Protoforms. In: Moewes, C., Nürnberger, A. (eds) Computational Intelligence in Intelligent Data Analysis. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 445. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32378-2_14

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