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title: "A Net Structure for Semantic Information Storage, Deduction and Retrieval"
authors:
  - "Stuart C. Shapiro"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1971/54"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1971/0054.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1971
pages: "512-522"
track: ""
keywords:
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# A Net Structure for Semantic Information Storage, Deduction and Retrieval

Stuart C. Shapiro

*Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 512-522.

## 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 .