---
title: "Active Semantic Networks as a Model of Human Memory"
authors:
  - "David E. Rumelhart"
  - "Donald A. Norman"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1973/57"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1973/0057.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1973
pages: "450-456"
track: "Psychology and A.I"
keywords:
---

# Active Semantic Networks as a Model of Human Memory

David E. Rumelhart, Donald A. Norman

*Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 450-456.

## Abstract

A general system to simulate human cogn1t1ve processes is described. The four-part system comprises a nodespace to store the network structure; a supervisor; a transition network parser; and an interpreter. The method by which noun phrases operate and tpe process for the determinj!r "the" is presented. An analysis of verb structures illustrates how network structures can be constructed from primitive verb definitions that get at the underlying structures of particular verbs. The paper concludes with an illustration of a problem in question-asking.