Conceptualgraphs

Conceptual graph is an example for network representation language. Here we define rules for forming and manipulating conceptual graphs and the conventions for representing classes, individuals and relationships. They express meaning in a form that is logically precise, humanly readable, and computationally tractable.
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A conceptual graph is a finite, connected, bipartite graph. It is used to represent classes, relationships and individuals. Conceptual graphs do not use labelled arcs. Conceptual relation node represents the relation between the concepts. We can represent the concept as boxes and relation as ellipse. A concept can have an arc only to a relation.
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In conceptual graphs concept node represents either concrete or abstract objects in the world of disclose. Concrete concepts are things such as a table, cat,etc. Abstract concepts include things like, beauty,loyality etc.

Bird
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Color
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white
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Bird

Flies

Father Child Parents

Mother

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Conceptual relation nodes indicate a relation involving one or more concepts. It can represent relation of arity n using a conceptual relation node having having n arcs. Try to draw a conceptual graph for the following proposition, Mary gave john the book
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Using conceptual graphs we can easily represent classes and subclasses relationships and class/member relationships. Since the relation between the individual and a class is different from the relationship between the class and its superclass. In some cases, only some properties belongs to the individual and all the remaining belongs to the class.
Artificial Intelligence @chintech

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Each conceptual graph represents a single proposition. A typical knowledge base will contain a number of such graphs. Graphs may be arbitrarily complex but it should be finite. Every concept is a unique individual of a particular type. Each concept box is labelled with a type label. The type and name is separated by a colon, :.
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Person:Mary

Agent

give

object

Book person:John recipient

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Here' dog' is the type and 'emma' is the concept name.

dog:Emma
Color white

The dog Emma is having colour white. A unique token called marker indicates each individual in the world of disclourse. This marker is written as a number preceeded by a #. Markers are unique. Names are not.
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Individual may have one name, no name or more than one name. But the marker will be unique. Different individuals may have the same name but different marker.

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Markers allow us to separate an individual from his name. We can represent a person with three names as follows.
name Person:#23455 name Nice Thomas Artificial Intelligence John name

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