- From: Marja-Riitta Koivunen <marja@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 17:31:44 -0400
- To: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>, Wendy A Chisholm <wendy@w3.org>
- Cc: w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org
At 09:30 AM 4/27/00 -0400, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: >I think what you are describing is analog processing - it is what some >machines are designed to do and what nervous systems do. As I understand >fuzzy logic it actually adds a bit of randomness to the factorisation in >general opening things a bit wider, and then testing the resulting >conclusions, rather than deriving the validity of the conclusions from the >presumed validity of the premises. Here is one explanation of fuzzy logic to those interested: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/Groups/AI/html/faqs/ai/fuzzy/part1/faq-doc-2.html Marja > >There are several automated test for readability - have a look at a tool like >MS Word. > >Charles McCN > >On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Wendy A Chisholm wrote: > > Hi all, > > What do people know about fuzzy logic? > > It seems that we might want to investigate the topic for the > guidelines. It is my understanding (this is from a conversation with Bert > Bos yesterday) that you take decisions from several sources and factor them > together. The basic idea is that truth is not black or white but that > there are shades of grey. You poll a number of sources for their opinion > and determine a shade of grey (0 through 1) that gets rounded to final > answer that is either 0 or 1. > > For example: > Checkpoint 14.1 Use the clearest and simplest language appropriate for a > site's content. > > There are many methods to determine the reading level or legibility of a > body of text (i don't know that any have been automated). We could take > the results of several, and combine them in some way to determine the > "clarity" of content. > > thoughts? > --wendy > -- > wendy a chisholm > world wide web consortium > web accessibility initiative > madison, wi usa > tel: +1 608 663 6346 > /-- > > >-- >Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org phone: +61 (0) 409 134 136 >W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI >Location: I-cubed, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton VIC 3053 >Postal: GPO Box 2476V, Melbourne 3001, Australia >
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