GC: n

CT: A semantic network or net is a graph structure for representing knowledge in patterns of interconnected nodes and arcs. Computer implementations of semantic networks were first developed for artificial intelligence and machine translation, but earlier versions have long been used in philosophy, psychology, and linguistics. The Giant Global Graph of the Semantic Web is a large semantic network (Berners-Lee et al. 2001; Hendler & van Harmelen 2008).

S: http://www.jfsowa.com/pubs/semnet.htm (last access: 3 March 2015)

N: 1. semantic (adj): 1894, from French sémantique, applied by Michel Bréal (1883) to the psychology of language, from Greek semantikos “significant,” from semainein “to show by sign, signify, point out, indicate by a sign,” from sema “sign, mark, token; omen, portent; constellation; grave” (Doric sama), from PIE root dheie- “to see, look” (cognates: Sanskrit dhyati “he meditates;” see zen).
network (n): “net-like arrangement of threads, wires, etc.,” 1550s, from net (n.) + work (n.). Extended sense of “any complex, interlocking system” is from 1839 (originally in reference to transport by rivers, canals, and railways). Meaning “broadcasting system of multiple transmitters” is from 1914; sense of “interconnected group of people” is from 1947.
2. A type of knowledge representation that formalizes objects and values as nodes and connects the nodes with arcs or links that indicate the relationships between the various nodes.
3. Originally associative networks were specifically knowledge representation formalisms and so did not necessarily contain natural language terms. Semantic networks, on the other hand, were originally seen as primarily representations of the meaning of natural language texts. Later this distinction became blurred and “associative network” has become synonymous with “semantic network.”
4. semantic network, semantic net: terms standardized by CSA International in 1992 and ISO/IEC in 1995.

S: 1. OED – http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=SEMANTIC&searchmode=none; http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=NETWORK&searchmode=none (last access: 3 March 2015). 2 to 4. TERMIUM PLUS (last access: 3 March 2015).

SYN: 1. semantic net, associative network. 2. logic net, logic network.

S: 1. TERMIUM PLUS (last access: 3 March 2015); GDT (last access: 3 March 2015). 2. TERMIUM PLUS (last access: 3 March 2015).

CR: artificial intelligence, computational intelligence, computer science, deep learning, ontology, Semantic Web, virtual personal assistant.