On the Representation and Use of Semantic Categories: A Survey and Prospectus (opens in new tab)

On the Representation and Use of Semantic Categories: A Survey and Prospectus Schatz, Bruce R. This paper is intended as a brief introduction to several issues concerning semantic categories. These are the everyday, factual groupings of world knowledge according to some similarity in characteristics. Some psychological data concerning the structure, formation, and use of categories is surveyed. Then several psychological models (set-theoretic and network) are considered. Various artificial in...