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19661960s
Organizations
Carnegie Mellon UniversityBBN Technologies
Major Achievements
- •Invented semantic networks as part of his PhD dissertation.
- •Modeled English vocabulary as a graph of interconnected concepts with associative links.
- •His work fundamentally shaped how modern ontologies and search-engine knowledge graphs are structured.
Key Papers
- Word Concepts: A Theory and Simulation of Some Basic Semantic Capabilities
M. Ross Quillian · Behavioral Science · 1967