Computational verb

Computational verb was invented by Tao Yang in 1997 in the Department Of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California at Berkeley. The purpose of computational verb is to make all verbs in any natural language computable. Each computational verb consists of an inner system and an outer system. The inner system of a computational verb is invisible to the outer observers. For example, for the computational verb “feel”, the inner system is the statues of a brain that are invisible even to the brain itself. For a human being, the inner system is the body together with the brain. In a computer, the inner system is called machinself (from machine + itself). The outer system of a computational verb is the visible part of the computational verb. Therefore, the outer system can be measured and modeled by using mathematical functions that are called outer functions of computational verb.

The concept of computational verb is closely related to the concept of fuzzy set, which was invented by Lotfi Zadeh in 1965, also in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California at Berkeley. Fuzzy set is mainly to make adjectives computable while computational verb is to make verbs and adverbs computable. While a membership function is used to model an adjective like “red”, “tall” and “fast”, an evolving function is used to model a computational verb like “go”, “increase” and “feel”. Among the applications of computational verbs to engineering problems are: computational verb controller, computational verb image processing, computational verb prediction and computational verb modeling.

The theory of computational verbs is the computational verb theory.