Open AccessAn assessment of natural language robustness and how it relates to natural language sustainability: a fuzzy ecological approach to the lives of natural languages
Author(s) -
Stanisław Puppel
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
studia rossica posnaniensia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2720-703X
pISSN - 0081-6884
DOI - 10.14746/strp.2013.38.17
Subject(s) - vitality , robustness (evolution) , sustainability , natural language , natural (archaeology) , computer science , artificial intelligence , ecology , geography , biology , gene , biochemistry , archaeology , genetics
All living natural languages may be characterized in terms of their overall ‘robustness’. The concept may be defined as relating directly to the health/vitality /wellbeing (i.e. sustainability) of these languages. In the paper, an attempt is made to further define the concept in terms of a set of parameters as well as to show that natural languages differ as to the degree of their overall robustness.