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Artificial intelligence publications May 16, 1977

Semantic Network Representations in Rule-Based Inference Systems

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Richard O. Duda, Peter E. Hart, Nils J. Nilsson, and Georgia L. Sutherland. 1977. Semantic network representations in rule-based inference systems. SIGART Bull., 63 (June 1977), 18. https://doi.org/10.1145/1045343.1045351

Abstract

Rule based insurance systems allow judgmental knowledge about a specific problem domain to be represented as a collection of discrete rules. Each rule states that if a certain premises are known, then certain conclusions can be inferred. An important design issue concerns the representational form for the premises and conclusion of the rules. We describe a rule-based system that uses a partition semantic networks representation for the premises and conclusions.

Several advantages can be cited for the semantic network representation. The most important of these concern the ability to represent subset an element taxonomic information, the ability to include the same relation in several different premises and conclusions, and the potential for smooth interface with natural language subsystems. This representation is being used in a system currently under development at SRI to aid a geologist in the evaluation of the mineral potential of exploration sites. The principles behind the system and its current implementation are described in the paper.

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