A Semantic Network
A knowledge representation framework that depicts the relationships between concepts in the form of a network, consisting of nodes representing concepts and edges establishing semantic connections between them.
Areas of application
- Natural Language Processing
- Information Retrieval
- Artificial Intelligence
- Cognitive Psychology
- Image recognition
- Database Management
- Knowledge Management
- Machine Learning
Example
For example, a semantic network could be used to represent the relationships between different types of animals, such as mammals, birds, and reptiles. Each node in the network would represent a specific type of animal, and the edges would show how these animals are related, such as a mammal being a subtype of a larger category like ‘Vertebrates’.