What's in a Link
(this is supporting document for the Cambridge Semantic Web meetup event on 3/9/2010 )
Date
3/9/2010
Location
Cambridge, MA
What's in a Link, Revisited - William A. Woods
William will discuss ideas about representing meaning in computer representations based on his classical paper "What's in a Link: Foundations for Semantic Networks" - 1975 [1] and his review "Meaning and Links " in 2007 [2] in a historical context.
William A. Woods is a Distinguished Software Engineer at ITA Software, Cambridge, MA and a member of the Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup Group. http://parsecraft.com
Foundations for Semantic Networks
William A. Woods
Bolt, Beranek and Newman
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Copyright © 1975 by Academic Press, Inc.
I. Introduction
II. What is Semantics?
- A. The philosopher and the linguist
- B. Procedural semantics
- C. Semantic specification of natural language
- D. Misconceptions about semantics
- E. Semantics of Programming Languages
III. Semantics and Semantic Networks
- A. Requirements for a semantic representation
- B. The canonical form myth
- C. Semantics of semantic network notations
- D. Intensions and extensions
- E. The need for intensional representation
- F. Attribute and "values"
- G. Links and predication
- H. Relations of more than two arguments
- I. Case representations in semantic networks
- J. Assertional and structural links
IV. Problems in Knowledge Representation
- A. Relative clauses
- B. Representation of complex sentences
- C. Definite and indefinite entities
- D. Consequences of intensional nodes
- E. Functions and predicates
- F. Representing quantified expressions
V. Conclusion
- References