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In order to deal with this kind of decision problem, we appeal to the theory of computing with words pioneered by Zadeh and establish a three-way decision model based on computing with words in this paper. The paper focuses on how to deal with more general linguistic information using the theory of computing with words. Initially, using the concept of computing with words, we translate more broad linguistic information into a linguistic distribution assessment on a balanced linguistic term set in order to better analyze linguistic information. The three-way decision based on computing with words is then discussed. Decision-theoretic rough fuzzy sets take into account the ambiguity of the decision target as a generalization of the classical decision-theoretic rough sets. This is what motivated us to develop a three-way decision based on decision-theoretic rough fuzzy sets using computing with words. 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