Answers.Body: <p>According to <strong>Wikipedia</strong>  and 
  <a href="http://www.jfsowa.com/pubs/semnet.htm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Semantic Networks</a>
   ,By John F. Sowa
  This is an updated version of an article in the Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence, Wiley, 1987, second edition, 1992. </p>
  
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    <p>A semantic network is used when one has knowledge that is best
    understood as a set of concepts that are related to one another.</p>
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  <p>From <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_network#Basics_of_semantic_networks" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Wikipedia</a>:</p>
  
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    <p>Most semantic networks are cognitively based. They also consist of arcs and nodes which can be organized into a taxonomic hierarchy. Semantic networks contributed ideas of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spreading_activation" rel="nofollow noreferrer">spreading activation</a>, inheritance, and nodes as proto-objects.</p>
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  <p>An example of semantic network is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordNet" rel="nofollow noreferrer">WordNet</a>. It groups English words into <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synonym_ring" rel="nofollow noreferrer">synsets</a>. Some semantic relations between these synsets are meronymy, hyponymy, etc.</p>
  
  <p>On the other hand, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexical_semantics#Semantic_networks" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><strong>Lexical semantic</strong></a>: </p>
  
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    <p>...explores whether the meaning of a lexical unit is established by looking at its neighborhood in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_network" rel="nofollow noreferrer">semantic net</a> (words it occurs with in natural sentences), or whether the meaning is already locally contained in the lexical unit.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>"semantic network" is way of representing "semantic" relations in form of a "graph" . where as "lexical semantic network" is a type of semantic network which represents the relations between words , sub-words or some-other linguistic related terms. so in other words , lexical semantic networks are a type of semantic networks dealing with language relationships.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: would you mind if I add links in this answer to [Semantic network](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_network) and [Lexical semantics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexical_semantics)?  *(Reviewing your concise synopsis of the concepts, there doesn't seem to be any conflict with the wikis, but wanted to run it by you for approval.)*
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Body: <p>What exactly are the differences between <em>semantic</em> and <em>lexical-semantic</em> networks? </p>
  
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ThreadText: # What exactly are the differences between semantic and lexical-semantic networks?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2017-01-10)
  
  What exactly are the differences between *semantic* and *lexical-semantic* networks?
  
  **Tags:** terminology, definitions, semantics
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2017-07-03. Score: 1
  
  According to **Wikipedia** and
  [Semantic Networks](http://www.jfsowa.com/pubs/semnet.htm)
  ,By John F. Sowa
  This is an updated version of an article in the Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence, Wiley, 1987, second edition, 1992.
  
  > A semantic network is used when one has knowledge that is best
  > understood as a set of concepts that are related to one another.
  
  From [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_network#Basics_of_semantic_networks):
  
  > Most semantic networks are cognitively based. They also consist of arcs and nodes which can be organized into a taxonomic hierarchy. Semantic networks contributed ideas of [spreading activation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spreading_activation), inheritance, and nodes as proto-objects.
  
  An example of semantic network is [WordNet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordNet). It groups English words into [synsets](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synonym_ring). Some semantic relations between these synsets are meronymy, hyponymy, etc.
  
  On the other hand, [**Lexical semantic**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexical_semantics#Semantic_networks):
  
  > ...explores whether the meaning of a lexical unit is established by looking at its neighborhood in the [semantic net](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_network) (words it occurs with in natural sentences), or whether the meaning is already locally contained in the lexical unit.
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2018-06-01. Score: 1
  
  "semantic network" is way of representing "semantic" relations in form of a "graph" . where as "lexical semantic network" is a type of semantic network which represents the relations between words , sub-words or some-other linguistic related terms. so in other words , lexical semantic networks are a type of semantic networks dealing with language relationships.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_3**: would you mind if I add links in this answer to [Semantic network](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_network) and [Lexical semantics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexical_semantics)?  *(Reviewing your concise synopsis of the concepts, there doesn't seem to be any conflict with the wikis, but wanted to run it by you for approval.)*  
  
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