• DOI:10.1109/MC.1983.1654194
Corpus ID: 16650410

What IS-A Is and Isn't: An Analysis of Taxonomic Links in Semantic Networks

@article{Brachman1983WhatII,
  title={What IS-A Is and Isn't: An Analysis of Taxonomic Links in Semantic Networks},
  author={R. Brachman},
  journal={Computer},
  year={1983},
  volume={16},
  pages={30-36}
}

• R. Brachman
• Published 1983
• Computer Science
• Computer

A was quite simple. Today, however, there are almost as many meanings for this inheritance link as there are knowledge-representation systems. Many systems for representing knowledge can be conisidered semantic networks largely becau.se they feature the notion of an explicit taxonomic hierarchy, a tree or lattice-like structure for categorizing classes of things in the world being represented. The backbone of the hierarchy is proFvided by some sort of "inheritance" link betweeni the… Expand