Semantic Memory

Citation: Quillian, M. Semantic Memory, in M. Minsky (ed.), Semantic Information Processing, pp 227-270, MIT Press, 1968.
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Summary

The central question is: what constitutes a reasonable view of how semantic information is organized within a person's memory? In other words, how can meanings or words be stored so that human-like use of these meanings is possible? This text proposes a model for such a memory structure, and explains its use in memory dependent tasks: 1) to compare and contrast meanings of two familiar English language words, 2) processing of English text to 'understand' it.