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)
- Hyponymy (A is subordinate of B; A is kind of B)
- Hypernymy (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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