{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"A Net Structure for Semantic Information Storage, Deduction and Retrieval","authors":[{"name":"Stuart C. Shapiro","slug":"stuart-c-shapiro","given":"Stuart C.","family":"Shapiro","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"This paper descri be s a data structure, ME~S (ME mory Net St ructure), that is useful for storin g se rr. antic information stemming fro m a natural lan gu age, an d a S )• sterr., MENTAL (MEmor y !\\et That Answers and Learns) that interacts with a user (human or progra rr. ), stores information into and retrie v es infor ma tio n fro::: MENS and interprets some information in MENS as rules telling it how to deduce new information fro m what is already stored. MENTAL can be used as a question-answering system with formatted input /o utput, as a vehicle for experimenting with various theories of semantic structures or as the memory management portion of a natural language question-answering system .","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1971/54","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1971/0054.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1971/54.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1971/bibtex/54","volume":{"slug":"1971","title":"Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1971","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1971/","year":1971,"location":"London, UK","dates":"","editors":"D.C. Cooper","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":null,"track":"","number":54,"pages":{"first":512,"last":522},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}