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Many search engines are term-based information retrieval models. The disadvantage of this type of model is that it does not consider word sense. If we can represent the meanings of the terms that a user inputs, the IR system can retrieve the information the user really wants; not simply match the terms. To represent word sense, we proposed conceptual fuzzy sets (CFSs). A CFS is a framework that represents...