• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.451-459
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• 2013

In this paper we analyze the Korean foods and sensory adjectives that can be used for the taste expression of corresponding food based on the fuzzy relation. In order to construct fuzzy relation we gathered and chose 87 related Korean adjectives for expressing not only taste but also smell from foods. After then we performed a sensory evaluation for 51 Korean foods with 20 subjects to check the proper adjectives when they take a food. Based on the data collected by the evaluation a fuzzy relation is constructed and used for the analysis of the properties of food and adjectives. In addition the composition of the fuzzy relation provides the fuzzy tolerance(compatibility) relation among foods as well as that among adjectives. From the fuzzy complete ${\alpha}$-cover of the relations we could explore the taxonomy of food or adjectives. We expect that the fuzzy relation-based scheme in the paper can be utilized for analysis of the sensory adjectives like smelling and tactile sensation.