HUMAN ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY (HAM)
This model was developed by John Anderson and Gordon Bower (1973). This
memory is organized as a network of propositional binary trees. When an
informant asserts a statement to HAM, the system parses the sentence and builds
a binary tree representation. As HAM is informed of new sentences, they are
parsed and formed into new tree like structures with existing ones. When HAM is
posed with a query it is formed into a tree structure called a probe. This
structure is then matched against memory structures for the best match. The
structure with the closest match is used to formulate an answer to the query.
Matching is accomplished by first locating the leaf nodes in memory that match
leaf nodes in the probe. The corresponding links are then checked to see if
they have the same labels and in the same order. The search process is
constrained by searching only node groups that have the same relation links.
Access to nodes in HAM is accomplished through word indexing in LISP.
In HAM, nodes in the tree are assigned with unique numbers, while links
are labeled with some functions. They are given below:
Context for free fact
Set membership
a fact
a location
An object
Predicate
Relation
Subject
Time (Present, past, future)
On the basis of above function, we can represent various sentences in
HAM. Let us look some example by using the above functions.
1) Sony met Rahul
On the above Ham Structure the time is the past (met), as Sonly did the
work so sonly is the subject and Rahul will be the object and the relation is
met.
2) Ram is eating an apple at Nico Park.
3) Sima is eating ice cream as well as chips at Gandhi Park.
4) He came to me.
5) In a room Muna touched Lily.
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