{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"The Use of a Semantic Network in a Deductive Question-Answering System","authors":[{"name":"James R. McSkimin","slug":"james-r-mcskimin","given":"James R.","family":"McSkimin","affiliation":""},{"name":"Jack Minker","slug":"jack-minker","given":"Jack","family":"Minker","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"The use of a semantic network to aid in the deductive search process of a Question-Answering System is described. The semantic net\\\\Urk is based on an adaptation of the predicate calculus. It makes available user-supplied, domain-dependent information so as to permit semantic data to be used during the search process. Three ways are discussed in which semantic information may be used. These are: (a) To apply semantic information during the pattern-matching process. (b) To apply semantic well-formedness tests to query and data inputs. (c) To determine when subproblems are fullysolved (i.e., they have no solutions other than a fixed, finite number). An example is provided which illustrates the use of a semantic netiDrk to perform each of the above functions.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/10","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/0010.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/10.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/bibtex/10","volume":{"slug":"1977","title":"Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1977","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/","year":1977,"location":"Cambridge, MA, USA","dates":"","editors":"Raj Reddy","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Natural Language","track":"Natural Language","number":10,"pages":{"first":50,"last":57},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}