Concept

Semantic network

Overview

directed graph structure with labeled edges serving to encode and represent knowledge, whether knowledge of definitions or assertions

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Semantic network

• Ferdinand de Saussure

Related ideas

• Formal language
• Opposite
• Machine translation
• Netherlands
• Natural language
• Semantics
• Semantic field
• Category theory
• Charles Sanders Peirce
• Concept
• English language
• Semantic parsing

Place in the tradition

Part of Description logic.

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