What's in a Link

Foundations for Semantic Networks

William A. Woods
Bolt, Beranek and Newman
Cambridge, Massachusetts

I. Introduction

A. The philosopher and the linguist

B. Procedural semantics

C. Semantic specification of natural language

D. Misconceptions about semantics

E. Semantics of Programming Languages

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

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

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