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  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,617 Views
14 Pages

16 April 2022

This paper reports the findings from a study that explored the effects of task complexity on linguistic complexity in EFL writing with a within-and-between-subject design for the sustainability of EFL writing skills. A total of 178 English majors and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,532 Views
26 Pages

20 August 2021

This study applies relative entropy in naturalistic large-scale corpus to calculate the difference among L2 (second language) learners at different levels. We chose lemma, token, POS-trigram, conjunction to represent lexicon and grammar to detect the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,158 Views
23 Pages

2 February 2021

In this paper, complex q-rung orthopair uncertain linguistic sets (CQROULSs) for handling multi-attribute decision making (MADM) issues are proposed so that the assessed estimation of each trait can be presented by CQROULS. Another aggregation operat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,389 Views
10 Pages

Combining Transformer Embeddings with Linguistic Features for Complex Word Identification

  • Jenny A. Ortiz-Zambrano,
  • César Espin-Riofrio and
  • Arturo Montejo-Ráez

27 December 2022

Identifying which words present in a text may be difficult to understand by common readers is a well-known subtask in text complexity analysis. The advent of deep language models has also established the new state-of-the-art in this task by means of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,000 Views
37 Pages

27 October 2021

In this manuscript, we combine the notion of linear Diophantine fuzzy set (LDFS), uncertain linguistic set (ULS), and complex fuzzy set (CFS) to elaborate the notion of complex linear Diophantine uncertain linguistic set (CLDULS). CLDULS refers to tr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,185 Views
38 Pages

Decision Support System Based on Complex Fractional Orthotriple Fuzzy 2-Tuple Linguistic Aggregation Operator

  • Muhammad Qiyas,
  • Muhammad Naeem,
  • Lazim Abdullah,
  • Muhammad Riaz and
  • Neelam Khan

16 January 2023

In this research, we provide tools to overcome the information loss limitation resulting from the requirement to estimate the results in the discrete initial expression domain. Through the use of 2-tuples, which are made up of a linguistic term and a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
1,965 Views
35 Pages

7 April 2024

Against the background of a major change in the world unseen in a century, emergencies with high complexity and uncertainty have had serious impacts on economic security and sustainable social development, making emergency management an important iss...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,065 Views
18 Pages

23 September 2022

Aggregation operators perform a valuable and significant role in various decision-making processes. Averaging and geometric aggregation operators are both used for capturing the interrelationships of the aggregated preferences, even if the preference...

  • Article
  • Open Access
341 Views
17 Pages

9 February 2026

Information asymmetry between complex source texts and general-audience comprehension remains a critical challenge in Artificial Intelligence. However, existing supervised simplification methods suffer from the scarcity of parallel training data, whi...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,882 Views
23 Pages

A Fuzzy Grammar for Evaluating Universality and Complexity in Natural Language

  • Adrià Torrens-Urrutia,
  • María Dolores Jiménez-López,
  • Antoni Brosa-Rodríguez and
  • David Adamczyk

26 July 2022

The paper focuses on linguistic complexity and language universals, which are two important and controversial issues in language research. A Fuzzy Property Grammar for determining the degree of universality and complexity of a natural language is int...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,186 Views
22 Pages

9 January 2025

This study examines the relationship between morphological complexity and word order rigidity, addressing a gap in the literature regarding causality in linguistic changes. While prior research suggests that the loss of inflectional morphology correl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,707 Views
14 Pages

20 November 2018

The new product development process (NPD) is considered to be the key factor of competition among different markets. The identification of a suitable material is an important issue in the conception and improvement of new products. Material selection...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,085 Views
14 Pages

Exploring Word-Adjacency Networks with Multifractal Time Series Analysis Techniques

  • Jakub Dec,
  • Michał Dolina,
  • Stanisław Drożdż,
  • Robert Kluszczyński,
  • Jarosław Kwapień and
  • Tomasz Stanisz

28 March 2025

A novel method of exploring linguistic networks is introduced by mapping word-adjacency networks to time series and applying multifractal analysis techniques. This approach captures the complex structural patterns of language by encoding network prop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,272 Views
14 Pages

Benefitting from the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning, the machine translation task based on neural networks has achieved impressive performance in many high-resource language pairs. However, the neural machine tran...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,457 Views
26 Pages

This paper deals with word order in complex verb phrases consisting of auxiliaries and infinitive complements in heritage Polish. In Polish, infinitive complements normally follow auxiliaries, but discontinuous structures occur if required by the inf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,860 Views
34 Pages

22 December 2023

This study aims to address the limitations of traditional Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) in managing safety and reliability within complex systems characterized by interdependent critical factors. We propose an integrated framework that comb...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,422 Views
25 Pages

Bridging Linguistic Gaps: Developing a Greek Text Simplification Dataset

  • Leonidas Agathos,
  • Andreas Avgoustis,
  • Xristiana Kryelesi,
  • Aikaterini Makridou,
  • Ilias Tzanis,
  • Despoina Mouratidis,
  • Katia Lida Kermanidis and
  • Andreas Kanavos

20 August 2024

Text simplification is crucial in bridging the comprehension gap in today’s information-rich environment. Despite advancements in English text simplification, languages with intricate grammatical structures, such as Greek, often remain under-ex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
376 Views
27 Pages

12 January 2026

Pan-Homophonic events denote fluctuations in stock prices that are triggered by phonetic similarities between event keywords and stock tickers. As a relatively novel and under-researched phenomenon, they mirror a subtle yet influential behavioral dev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
992 Views
29 Pages

Evaluating LLMs for Source Code Generation and Summarization Using Machine Learning Classification and Ranking

  • Hussain Mahfoodh,
  • Mustafa Hammad,
  • Bassam A. Y. Alqaralleh and
  • Aymen I. Zreikat

10 February 2026

The recent use of large language models (LLMs) in code generation and code summarization tasks has been widely adopted by the software engineering community. New LLMs are emerging regularly with improved functionalities, efficiency, and expanding dat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
883 Views
19 Pages

13 November 2025

Large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4 are increasingly integrated into research, industry, and enterprise workflows, yet little is known about how input file formats shape their outputs. While prior work has shown that formats can influence resp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,210 Views
16 Pages

21 September 2022

In recent years, different types of emergency events have taken place frequently around the world. Emergencies need to be addressed in the shortest possible time since inappropriate or delayed decisions may result in severe secondary disasters and ec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,816 Views
26 Pages

18 November 2024

In a recent study, I demonstrated that large numbers of L2 (second language) speakers do not appear to influence the morphological or information-theoretic complexity of natural languages. This paper has three primary aims: First, I address recent cr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
603 Views
16 Pages

26 September 2025

This paper assesses the role of socio-demographic triggers on Kolmogorov-based complexity in spoken English varieties. It thus contributes to the ongoing debate on contact and complexity in the sociolinguistic typological research community. Currentl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,548 Views
31 Pages

28 December 2023

In this paper, I analyze, from a compositional perspective, the relevant features to construct the interpretation of immediate succession between a subordinate event and the event that takes place in the main sentence. Among all the components involv...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,292 Views
25 Pages

The acquisition of a second language requires the construction or reconstruction of linguistic knowledge about the new language system. Learners of a second language have to acquire the linguistic structures of the second language by constructing or...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,473 Views
19 Pages

30 October 2019

A double hierarchy hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (DHHFLT) is deemed as an effective and powerful linguistic expression which models complex linguistic decision information more accurately by using two different hierarchy linguistic term sets. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,131 Views
30 Pages

11 December 2024

Linguistic q-Rung orthopair fuzzy set is a new extension of the linguistic Pythagorean fuzzy set, which effectively represents the fuzzy and uncertain decision-making information based on qualitative modeling. However, its operational rules are unabl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
5,351 Views
28 Pages

10 September 2018

Decision making is the key component of people’s daily life, from choosing a mobile phone to engaging in a war. To model the real world more accurately, probabilistic linguistic term sets (PLTSs) were proposed to manage a situation in which sev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,630 Views
21 Pages

23 November 2020

Multi-attribute group decision-making (MAGDM) is widely applied to various areas for solving real-life problems, including technology selection, credit assessment, strategic planning evaluation, supplier selection, etc. To describe the complex and im...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,669 Views
16 Pages

27 March 2023

Knowledge reduction is a crucial topic in formal concept analysis. There always exists uncertain, symmetric linguistic-evaluation information in social life, which leads to high complexity in the process of knowledge representation. In order to overc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,683 Views
15 Pages

30 January 2018

The aggregation operator is a potential tool to fuse the information derived from multisources, which has been applied in group decision, combination classification and scheduling clusters successfully. To better characterize complex decision situati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
7,792 Views
19 Pages

Automatic Classification of Text Complexity

  • Valentino Santucci,
  • Filippo Santarelli,
  • Luciana Forti and
  • Stefania Spina

18 October 2020

This work introduces an automatic classification system for measuring the complexity level of a given Italian text under a linguistic point-of-view. The task of measuring the complexity of a text is cast to a supervised classification problem by expl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,267 Views
20 Pages

26 March 2025

The mechanisms driving the development of eye movement patterns is an unresolved debate in children during reading, with three competing hypotheses: the oculomotor-tuning hypothesis, the linguistic-proficiency hypothesis, and the combined hypothesis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,822 Views
25 Pages

25 August 2023

Linguistic terms have proven to be more effective for DMs when defining complex and imprecise cognition. Consequently, a variety of novel linguistic models such as fuzzy linguistic approach, hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (HFLTSs), and hesitant...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,267 Views
23 Pages

24 June 2021

Ambiguous and uncertain facts can be handled using a hesitant 2-tuple linguistic set (H2TLS), an important expansion of the 2-tuple linguistic set. The vagueness and uncertainty of data can be grabbed by using aggregation operators. Therefore, aggreg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Views
23 Pages

This study proposes a Natural Language Processing (NLP)-based evaluation framework to examine the linguistic consistency of large language model (LLM)-generated personalized texts over time. NLP metrics were used to quantify and compare linguistic pa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,258 Views
13 Pages

15 April 2025

Intellectual preferences often align with the broader concept of standardization. The centralizing tendency observed in the sciences mirrors the patterns seen in linguistic standardization, such as the establishment of standard dialects in diverse sp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
2,883 Views
35 Pages

23 December 2020

Nowadays, decision making problems have increased their complexity and a single decision maker cannot handle these problems, with a more diverse and comprehensive view of them being necessary, which results in group decision making (GDM) schemes. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,043 Views
9 Pages

20 February 2024

Automatic term extraction aims at extracting terminological units from specialized corpora to assist terminographers in developing glossaries, thesauri, and termbases. Unfortunately, traditional methods often overlook the complex relation between ter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,195 Views
23 Pages

11 October 2023

This article explores linguistic and cultural identities as they emerge in ethnographic data from plurilingual children with transnational and ethnic minority backgrounds in Catalonia, Spain. The particular sociolinguistic and multicultural context w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,619 Views
29 Pages

A New Ranking Methodology for Pythagorean Trapezoidal Uncertain Linguistic Fuzzy Sets Based on Einstein Operations

  • Arshad Ahmad Khan,
  • Saleem Abdullah,
  • Muhammad Shakeel,
  • Faisal Khan,
  • Noor ul Amin and
  • Jianchao Luo

25 March 2019

In this article, we proposed new Pythagorean trapezoidal uncertain linguistic fuzzy aggregation information—namely, the Pythagorean trapezoidal uncertain linguistic fuzzy Einstein weighted averaging (PTULFEWA) operator, the Pythagorean trapezoi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,693 Views
19 Pages

Exploring Semanticity for Content and Function Word Distinction in Catalan

  • Neus Català,
  • Jaume Baixeries and
  • Antoni Hernández-Fernández

In the realm of linguistics, the concept of “semanticity” was recently introduced as a novel measure designed to study linguistic networks. In a given text, semanticity is defined as the ratio of the potential number of meanings associate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
386 Views
24 Pages

An Approach Based on Granular Computing and 2-Tuple Linguistic Model to Personalize Linguistic Information in Group Decision-Making

  • Aylin Estrada-Velazco,
  • Yeleny Zulueta-Véliz,
  • José Ramón Trillo and
  • Francisco Javier Cabrerizo

28 November 2025

Group decision-making is an inherently collaborative process that can become increasingly complex when addressing the uncertainty associated with linguistic assessments from experts. A crucial principle for achieving a solution of superior quality li...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,149 Views
25 Pages

Linguistically and culturally responsive pedagogies (LCRPs) recognize students’ multilingual and cultural resources as central to inclusive and equitable learning. While such approaches are increasingly promoted in English language education (E...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,216 Views
18 Pages

Changes to the global infrastructure have contributed to the growing (linguistic) diversity of large metropolises. However, there have been calls from scholars to explore “emerging superdiversity” (DePalma and Pérez-Caramés 2018) in peripheral region...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,852 Views
25 Pages

20 July 2019

When solving multiple attribute decision making (MADM) problems, the 2-tuple linguistic variable is an effective tool that can not only express complex cognitive information but also prevent loss of information in calculation. The picture fuzzy set (...

  • Letter
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,180 Views
10 Pages

17 May 2020

In this paper, we apply the neural architecture search (NAS) method to Korean grammaticality judgment tasks. Since the word order of a language is the final result of complex syntactic operations, a successful neural architecture search in linguistic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,564 Views
21 Pages

23 April 2020

Linguistic interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets, as an extension of interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets, have strong practical value in the management of complex uncertainty system with qualitative evaluation information. This study focuse...

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