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The Z-number, proposed by Zadeh in the year 2011, is a new fuzzy-theoretic approach to the Computing With Words (CWW) paradigm. It aspires to capture the uncertainty of information conveyed by a sentence, and serve as a model for the precisiation and linguistic summarization of a natural language statement. The Z-number thereby, lends a new dimension to CWW – uniting CWW with Natural Language Processing (NLP). This article is an illumination upon our exploration of the Z-number approach to CWW. Here, we enlist the probable contributions of the Z-number to CWW, present our algorithm for CWW using the Z-number, and describe a simulation of the technique with respect to a real-life example of CWW. In the course of the simulation, we extend the interpretation of the set-theoretic intersection operator to evaluate the intersection of perceptions and discover some of the challenges underlying the implementation of the Z-number in the area of CWW.
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Banerjee, R., Pal, S.K. (2013). The Z-Number Enigma: A Study through an Experiment. In: Yager, R., Abbasov, A., Reformat, M., Shahbazova, S. (eds) Soft Computing: State of the Art Theory and Novel Applications. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 291. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34922-5_6
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