Editing Semantic memory (section)

====Semantic networks====
TLC is an instance of a more general class of models known as [[semantic networks]]. In a semantic network, each node is to be interpreted as representing a specific concept, word, or feature; each node is a symbol. Semantic networks generally do not employ distributed representations for concepts, as may be found in a [[neural network]]. The defining feature of a semantic network is that its links are almost always directed (that is, they only point in one direction, from a base to a target) and the links come in many different types, each one standing for a particular relationship that can hold between any two nodes.<ref>Arbib, M. A. (Ed.). (2002). Semantic networks. In ''The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks (2nd ed.)'', Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.</ref> 

Semantic networks see the most use in models of [[Discourse analysis|discourse]] and [[logic]]al [[comprehension (logic)|comprehension]], as well as in [[artificial intelligence]].<ref>
* {{cite book |last1=Barr |first1=Avron |last2=Feigenbaum |first2=Edward A. |title=The Handbook of artificial intelligence, volume 1 |date=1981 |publisher=HeurisTech Press; William Kaufmann |location=Stanford, CA; Los Altos, CA |isbn=978-0-86576-004-2 |url=https://archive.org/details/handbookofartific01barr/}}
* {{cite book |last1=Barr |first1=Avron |last2=Feigenbaum |first2=Edward A. |title=The Handbook of artificial intelligence, volume 2 |date=1982 |publisher=HeurisTech Press; William Kaufmann |location=Stanford, CA; Los Altos, CA |isbn=978-0-86576-006-6 |url=https://archive.org/details/handbookofartific02barr/}}
* {{cite book |last1=Cohen |first1=Paul R. |last2=Feigenbaum |first2=Edward A. |title=The Handbook of artificial intelligence, volume 3 |date=1982  |publisher=HeurisTech Press; William Kaufmann |location=Stanford, CA; Los Altos, CA  |isbn=978-0-86576-007-3 |url=https://archive.org/details/handbookofartific03cohe}}
* {{cite book |last1=Barr |first1=Avron |last2=Cohen |first2=Paul R. |last3=Feigenbaum |first3=Edward A. (Edward Albert) |title=Handbook of artificial intelligence, volume 4 |date=1989 |publisher=Addison Wesley |location=Reading, MA |isbn=978-0-201-51731-6 |url=https://archive.org/details/handbookofartific04barr}}</ref> In these models, the nodes correspond to words or word stems and the links represent syntactic relations between them.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Cravo | first1 = M. R. | last2 = Martins | first2 = J. P. | year = 1993 | title = SNePSwD: A newcomer to the SNePS family | journal = Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence | volume = 5 | issue = 2–3| pages = 135–148 | doi=10.1080/09528139308953764}}</ref>