Fuzzy natural language communication system-FLINS: concept and conversation examples

The Fuzzy Computing project (FC project) at the Laboratory for International Fuzzy Engineering Research (LIFE) in Japan is developing a natural language communication system called FLINS, which is short for Fuzzy Lingual System. The final goal of the project is to implement a lingual computer that can communicate and learn, both by being taught and on it own, through use of fuzzy natural language. This paper gives an overview of the FC project, especially FLINS. It first briefly presents the key concepts of FLINS, then explains the three-layered fuzzy inference and the inference control based on the three-layered inference that are the special features of FLINS, and finally gives conversation examples.<<ETX>>