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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Semantic network A graph consisting of nodes that represent physical or conceptual objects and arcs that describe the relationship between the nodes, resulting in something like a data flow diagram. Semantic nets are an effective way to represent data as they incorporate the inheritance mechanism that prevents duplication of data. That is, the meaning of a concept comes from its relationship to other concepts and the information is stored by interconnecting nodes with labelled arcs. (1999-01-07). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A semantic network is often used as a form of knowledge representation. It is a directed graph consisting of vertices which represent concepts and edges which represent semantic relations between the concepts.
Semantic networks are a common type of machine-readable dictionaries.
Important semantic relations:
The link and lexical structure of the Wikipedia might also be regarded as a simple example of a semantic network, with the following properties:
"Semantic Nets" were first invented for computers by Richard H. Richens of the Cambridge Language Research Unit in 1956 as an "interlingua" for machine translation of natural languages. They were developed as "semantic networks" for knowledge representation and reasoning by M. Ross Quillian in 1966.
On can consider a mind map to be a very free form variant of a semantic network. By using colors and pictures the emphasis is on generating a semantic net which evokes human creativity.
In the 1960s to 1980s the idea of a semantic link was developed within hypertext systems as the most basic unit, or edge, in an semantic network. These ideas were extremely influential, and there have been many attempts to add typed link semantics to HTML and XML.
See also:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Semantic network."
Crosswords: SEMANTIC NETWORK |
| Specialty definitions using "SEMANTIC NETWORK": NETL ♦ property inheritance ♦ Unified Medical Language System. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "SEMANTIC NETWORK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | semantisk netværk (associative net, associative network, semantic net), semantisk net (associative net, associative network, semantic net), associativt netværk (associative net, associative network, semantic net), associativt net (associative net, associative network, semantic net). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | semantisch netwerk (associative net, associative network, semantic net), semantisch net (associative net, associative network, semantic net). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | semanttinen verkko (associative net, associative network, semantic net), assosiatiivinen verkko (associative net, associative network, semantic net). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | réseau sémantique (semantic net). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | semantisches Netzwerk (associative net, associative network, semantic net), semantisches Netz (associative net, associative network, semantic net). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σημαντικό δίκτυο (associative net, associative network, semantic net). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | reticolo semantico (associative net, associative network, semantic net), rete semantica (associative net, associative network, semantic net). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | emanticsay etworknay reticulado semântico (associative net, associative network, semantic net). (various references) red semántica (associative net, associative network, semantic net). (various references) semantiskt nät (associative net, associative network, semantic net). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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