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Introduction to Knowledge Representation
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Bench-Capon, T. J. M. |
| Copyright Year | 1990 |
| Abstract | This chapter discusses knowledge representation. Maps are a good example of knowledge representations. There one has a relatively widely understood set of conventions for what symbols can be used and how they are to be interpreted when attempting to translate from the map to the geographical situation that it describes. Another example is provided by the various notations used to describe the positions in a game of chess. What is computationally acceptable may change as advances are made in computer hardware, and in methods for manipulating representations. The requirement to be unambiguous means that every valid expression in the representation should have one and only one interpretation. This is essentially the requirement that the semantics of the representation be well defined. Natural languages such as English, while scoring well on other non-computational criteria, tend to fall down when it comes to being unambiguous. The development of logic was to a large extent motivated by the need to disambiguate sentences of natural English. |
| Starting Page | 11 |
| Ending Page | 25 |
| Page Count | 15 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1016/B978-0-12-086440-9.50006-3 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://web.media.mit.edu/~dustin/papers/knowledge_representations/knowledge_representations.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~dustin/papers/knowledge_representations/knowledge_representations.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
