What is a semantic network?
A semantic network in a graphical knowledge representation. In the representation, individual items are related to one another by lines connecting them. For example, two individual’s names might be connected by a named line (arc) called siblings that indicates they are brother and sister. This form of knowledge has an advantage because it is visually meaningful to humans since it parallels a similar kind of diagrammatic representation in educational psychology called a concept map. Semantic networks can be translated into other forms of representation, such as a rule base, and can be used by knowledge-based computer systems. A visual example of a semantic network can be found in the IPLI site under fun stuff.
