Human beings have an inherent capability to use linguistic information (LI)
seamlessly even though it is vague and imprecise. Computing with Words (CWW)
was proposed to impart computing systems with this capability of human beings.
The interest in the field of CWW is evident from a number of publications on
various CWW methodologies. These methodologies use different ways to model the
semantics of the LI. However, to the best of our knowledge, the literature on
these methodologies is mostly scattered and does not give an interested
researcher a comprehensive but gentle guide about the notion and utility of
these methodologies. Hence, to introduce the foundations and state-of-the-art
CWW methodologies, we provide a concise but a wide-ranging coverage of them in
a simple and easy to understand manner. We feel that the simplicity with which
we give a high-quality review and introduction to the CWW methodologies is very
useful for investigators, especially those embarking on the use of CWW for the
first time. We also provide future research directions to build upon for the
interested and motivated researchers.

本文简要介绍了人类天生利用模糊语言信息（LI）的能力，以及计算语言（CWW）的提出，重点介绍了 CWW 的基础和最新方法，旨在为感兴趣的研究人员提供全面且易于理解的指南。