Active Semantic Networks as a Model of Human Memory

A general system to simulate human cognitive processes is described. The four-part system comprises a nodespace to store the network structure ; a supervisor; a transition network parser; and an interpreter. The method by which noun phrases operate and the process f or the determiner "the" is presented. An analysis of verb structures illustrates how network structures can be constructed from primitiv e verb definitions that get at the underlying structures of particular verbs. The paper concludes with an illustratio n of a problem in question-asking.In IJCAI-73: THIRD INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, 20-23 August 1973, Stanford University Stanford, California.