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In this paper is presented a comparison between conceptual graphs and KL-ONE semantic networks. For non-specialists, the two systems are based on similar principles: those of structured inheritance networks. They are conceived to provide term descriptions in the shape of necessary and sufficient conditions, and these terms are hierarchicaly structured. It seems so necessary to place them more precisely one with respect to the other.
Conceptual graphs allow to represent finer points of natural languages, keeping a relative syntactic clarity. KL-ONE networks contain only a few primitives which are well defined and have semantic interpretation into model theory.
The main characteristics of KL-ONE is described first and then the two formalisms are compared, with emphasis on the differences of expressiveness, in particular about quantifiers processing.
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Biébow, B., Chaty, G. (1993). A comparison between conceptual graphs and KL-ONE. In: Mineau, G.W., Moulin, B., Sowa, J.F. (eds) Conceptual Graphs for Knowledge Representation. ICCS 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 699. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-56979-0_4
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