Semantic Nets

• Semantic Nets were invented by Quillian in 1969.
• Quillian was a Psychologist (at UMich) and was trying to define the structure of human knowledge.
• Semantic Nets are about relations between concepts.
• Semantic Nets use a graph structure so that concepts are nodes in the graph.
• The concepts are connected by arcs which tells the relationship between the concepts.
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