PSN: A prolog declarative model of conceptual knowledge |
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Authors: | Jack Greenbaum Russell Revlin |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Psychology, University of California, 93106, Santa Barbara, CA
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Abstract: | This paper introduces a declarative model of semantic memory, called PSN, written in Prolog. It is shown to be a descendant of Quillian’s (1969) Teachable Language Comprehender (TLC) in its structuring of knowledge as a conceptual reticulum and in its use of spreading activation as a retrieval mechanism. PSN goes beyond TLC, however, in its ability to instantiate the essential benchmark properties of human semantic retrieval. As such, it can provide cognitive science with a normative model on which to assess further research and it demonstrates the value of the Prolog language for modeling psychological processes. |
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