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Arguably the first modern paper on semantic networks.
from John F. Sowa, Knowledge Representation (Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole).
English translation of Peter of Spain's (Pope John XXI's) version, also from Sowa.
The Tree of Porphyry
Masterman, M.M. (1957), "The Thesaurus in Syntax and Semantics", Mechanical Translation 4(1/2) (November): 35-43.
Kruja, Eriola; Marks, Joe; Blair, Ann; & Waters, Richard (2001), "A Short Note on the History of Graph Drawing", Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD 2001, Vienna) (Berlin: Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2265): 272-286.
3 Semantic-Network-based theories:
Quillian, M. Ross (1967), "Word Concepts: A Theory and Simulation of Some Basic Semantic Capabilities", Behavioral Science 12: 410-430.
Quillian, M. Ross (1968), "Semantic Memory", in Marvin Minsky (ed.) Semantic Information Processing (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press): 227-270.
Quillian, M . Ross (1969), "The Teachable Language Comprehender: A Simulation Program and Theory of Language", Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery 12(8): 459-476.
Collins, Allan M. & Quillian, M. Ross (1969), "Retrieval Time from Semantic Memory", Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior 8: 240-247.
Johnson-Laird, P.N.; Herrman, D.J.; & Chaffin, R. (1984), "Only Connections: A Critique of Semantic Networks", Psychological Bulletin 96(2): 292-315.
Reprinted in Ronald J. Brachman & Hector J. Levesque (eds.), Readings in Knowledge Representation (Los Altos, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1985): 97-118.
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The "meaning" of a word (node) is its "location" in the entire network
An important paper on the first semantic-network knowledge-representation-and-reasoning system in AI, and how to get it to read and comprehend a natural-language text.
LOCKWOOD Periodical Collection Per BF455.A1 J6
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Collins & Quillian semantic network [PDF]
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SNePS (Semantic Network Processing System) is a KRRA system created by Stuart C. Shapiro and developed by him in collaboration with numerous colleagues and students.
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The SNePS Knowledge Representation, Reasoning, and Acting System
Quillian's semantic-network theory (one of the earliest in AI):
Roger Schank's theory of Conceptual Dependency.
Some references:
Reprinted from Computers & Mathematics with Applications 23(2-5): 1-375 and 23(6-9): 377-758.
LOCKWOOD Book Collection Q335 .P7 1991
SCI/ENGR Book Collection Q360 .A87
Contains the first major paper on SNePS (there were earlier ones in conference publications; see the full SNeRG bibliography):
(1979), "The SNePS Semantic Network Processing System", pp. 179-203.
Findler, Nicholas V. (ed.) (1979), Associative Networks: The Representation and Use of Knowledge by Computers (New York: Academic Press).
Evens, Martha Walton (ed.) (1988), Relational Models of the Lexicon: Representing Knowledge in Semantic Networks (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press).
Sowa, John F. (ed.) (1991), Principles of Semantic Networks: Explorations in the Representation of Knowledge (San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann).
Lehmann, Fritz (ed.) (1992), Semantic Networks in Artificial Intelligence (Oxford: Pergamon Press).
On the relationship between first-order logic and semantic networks:
2 papers (and a review) on the difficulty of representing meta-knowledge in FOL:
3 papers on how SNePS handles the problem:
Rapaport, William J. (1988), Review of Joseph Y. Halpern (ed.), Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning About Knowledge: Proceedings of the 1986 Conference (Los Altos, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1986), Journal of Symbolic Logic 53: 660-670.
des Rivières, Jim, & Levesque, Hector J. (1986), "The Consistency of Syntactical Treatments of Knowledge", in Joseph Y. Halpern (ed.), Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning about Knowledge: Proceedings of the 1986 Conference (TARK-86; Monterey, CA) (Los Altos, CA: Morgan Kaufmann): 115-130.
Asher, Nicholas M., & Kamp, Johan A.W. (1986), "The Knower's Paradox and Representational Theories of Attitudes", in Joseph Y. Halpern (ed.), Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning about Knowledge: Proceedings of the 1986 Conference (TARK-86; Monterey, CA) (Los Altos, CA: Morgan Kaufmann): 131-147.
Barnden, John A. (1986), "A Viewpoint Distinction in the Representation of Propositional Attitudes", Proceedings of the 5th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-86, Philadelphia) (Los Altos, CA: Morgan Kaufmann), Vol. 1, pp. 411-415.
Shapiro, Stuart C., & Rapaport, William J. (1991), "Models and Minds: Knowledge Representation for Natural-Language Competence", in Robert Cummins & John Pollock (eds.), Philosophy and AI: Essays at the Interface (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press): 215-259.
Shapiro, Stuart C. (1993), "Belief Spaces as Sets of Propositions", Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence 5(2&3): 225-235.
Israel, David J. & Brachman, Ronald J. (1981), "Distinctions and Confusions: A Catalogue Raisonné", Proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-81, University of British Columbia) (Los Altos: William Kaufmann): 452-459.
Schubert, Lenhart K. (1991), "Semantic Nets Are in the Eye of the Beholder", in John F. Sowa (ed.), Principles of Semantic Networks: Explorations in the Representation of Knowledge (San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann): 95-107.
Shastri, Lokendra (1991), "Why Semantic Networks?", in John F. Sowa (ed.), Principles of Semantic Networks: Explorations in the Representation of Knowledge (San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann): 109-136.
On the difficulty of representing meta-knowledge (knowledge about knowledge) in FOL and how it can be done in SNePS:
Other semantic-network-related KRR theories:
Frames
Description Logics
Concept Maps
Semantic Networks and the Web:
Original Posters of the Internet
Members of the Clever Project (1999), "Hypersearching the Web", Scientific American (June): 54-60.
Berners-Lee, Tim; Hendler, James; & Lassila, Ora (2001), "The Semantic Web", Scientific American (May): 35-43.
Feigenbaum, Lee; Herman, Ivan; Hongsermeier, Tonya; Neumann, Eric; & Stephens, Susie (2007), "The Semantic Web in Action", Scientific American 297(6) (December): 90-97.
Miscellaneous:
Reprinted as Research Paper No. 74-RP-1013 (Defence and Civil Institute of Enviornmental Medicine, Defence Research Board)
Taylor, M.M. (1974), "Speculations on Bilingualism and the Cognitive Network", Working Papers on Bilingualism, Issue 2 (Toronto: Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Bilingual Education Project).
Werner, Oswald (1988), "How to Teach a Network: Minimal Design Features for a Cultural Knowledge Acquisition Device or C-KAD", in Martha Walton Evens (ed.), Relational Models of the Lexicon: Representing Knowledge in Semantic Networks (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press): 141-166.
Hartley, Roger T.; & Barnden, John A. (1997), "Semantic Networks: Visualizations of Knowledge", Trends in Cognitive Sciences 1(5) (August): 169-175.
Special Issue on AI and Networks, AI Magazine 29(3) (Fall 2008).
http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/semantic-networks.html