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title: "Representing Numbers in Semantic Networks: Prolegomena"
authors:
  - "Stuart C. Shapiro"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/63"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/0063.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1977
pages: "284--1"
track: "Representation of Knowledge"
keywords:
---

# Representing Numbers in Semantic Networks: Prolegomena

Stuart C. Shapiro

*Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 284--1.

## Abstract

We are study~ng var~ous metnods of representing numbers in semantic networks. 'l'nere ar~ two reasons for this. First, semantic networks have .been proposed since tne late sixties as formalisms for the general representation of knowleage. Lately, tneir popularity has increased. Yet proolem areas persist for which tne representations have not yet been carefully workeu out. Some of tnese are discussed in Woods, 19 7 !:i. l~umeric information is another of the issues tnat "need to be addresseo ana solutions integrated into a consistent wnole in order to proauce a logically adequate semantic network formalism" (Woods, 1975, p. 80).