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What was the original criticism of semantic networks?

  • A.They could not represent relations between objects
  • B.They required too much memory to store large domains
  • C.They could not be drawn for more than a few concepts
  • D.Their links had no agreed formal meaning

Answer: D

Early networks used links whose meaning varied between systems and sometimes within one, so what a diagram entailed was unclear. Giving them a translation into first order logic settled the matter and showed they were a notational variant of a fragment of it. Relations were exactly what they represented, and memory and scale were practical issues. A representation whose inferences cannot be stated precisely cannot be debugged, which is why formal semantics matters even for an informal looking notation.

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