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 introduced. In this task, the Fuzzy Property Grammar operated only with syntactic constraints. Fuzzy Natural Logic sets the fundamentals to express the notions of universality and complexity as evaluative expressions. The Fuzzy Property Grammar computes the constraints in terms of weights of universality and calculates relative complexity. We present a proof-of-concept in which we have generated a grammar with 42B syntactic constraints. The model classifies constraints in terms of low, medium, and high universality and complexity. Degrees of relative complexity in terms of similarity from a correlation matrix have been obtained. The results show that the architecture of a Universal Fuzzy Property Grammar is flexible, reusable, and re-trainable, and it can easily take into account new sets of languages, perfecting the degree of universality and complexity of the linguistic constraints as well as the degree of complexity between languages.
Data shift is a gap between data distribution used for training and data distribution encountered in the real-world. Data augmentations help narrow the gap by generating new data samples, increasing data variability, and data space coverage. We present a new data augmentation: Unproportional mosaicing (Unprop). Our augmentation randomly splits an image into various-sized blocks and swaps its content (pixels) while maintaining block sizes. Our method achieves a lower error rate when combined with other state-of-the-art augmentations.