THE THEORY OF SEMANTIC FIELD AS A BASIS FOR THE DECLARATIVE KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION

Abstract

The article is aimed to show that the theory of semantic field in terminology can be employed as a basis for the declarative knowledge representation. The article pays special attention to the question of different types of associative relations between concepts. The author analyses a group of terms of the semantic field “Stairs” in order to study specific relations between them. The research has shown that intralexic and extralexic linguistic properties can be used to establish relations between notions. The author comes to the conclusion that linguistic and terminological approaches to the study of knowledge acquisition can be computerised due to a certain similarity based on associative relations in the functioning of the human brain, neural networks used in artificial intelligence development as well as the notion of lexical semantic field.