IMPLEMENTING FUZZINESS IN DIALOGUE SYSTEMS

A problem which must be dealt with by any reasonably general computer simulation of the cognitive processes underlying natural language dialogue behaviour is the inherent fuzziness of natural language and human thought. Artificial Intelligence (AI) research has to date achieved nothing approaching a general formal treatment covering all aspects of fuzziness. Surveys of AI approaches to the problems of vagueness can be found in WAHLSTER (1977) and PRADE (1979).