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Exam-like questions

From last years exam:

Represent the following facts in the language of predicate logic:

An exam-like one:

``Herbert is a small hippopotamus who lives in Edinburgh zoo. Like all hippopoamuses he eats grass and likes swimming''

Represent the above:

  1. as a semantic net [6 marks]
  2. in predicate logic [6 marks]

Give two new facts about Herbert that are:

  1. Easier to represent in a semantic net than in predicate logic [4 marks]
  2. Easier to represent in logic than in a semantic net [4 marks]

Give a possible advantage of predicate logic over semantic nets other than representational adequacy [5 marks]


alison@
Fri Aug 19 10:42:17 BST 1994