Bootstrapping knowledge representations: From entailment meshes via semantic nets to learning webs

Kybernetes

Volumn 30, Issue 5-6, 2001, Pages 691-725

  Heylighen, Francis ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence; Cybernetics; Education; Learning; Networks; Systems

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; CYBERNETICS; DIRECTED GRAPHS; HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); SEMANTICS;

ASSOCIATIVE NETWORK; BASIC APPLICATION; BOOTSTRAPPING METHOD; LEARNING; SELF-ORGANIZE; SEMANTIC NET; SEMANTIC NETWORK; WEIGHTED LINKS; FRAME-LIKE;

EDUCATION;

EID: 0035637545     PISSN: 0368492X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/EUM0000000005695     Document Type: Article

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