A
semantic network is often used as a form of
knowledge representation. It consists of vertices which represent concepts and edges which represent relations between the concepts. A semantic net is a [Directed graph]
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Important semantic relations:
- Meronymy? (A is part of B)
- Holonymy? (B has A as a part of itself)
- Hyponymy? (or Troponymy?) (A is subordinate of B; A is kind of B)
- Hyperonymy? (A is superordinate of B)
- Synonymy? (A denotes the same as B)
- Antonymy? (A denotes the opposite of B)
An example of a semantic network is WordNet, a lexical database of English.
The link and lexical structure of the Wikipedia might also be regarded as a simple example of a semantic network, with the following properties:
- article A is linked to by article B
- the name of article A is used in the Wikipedia entry for B
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