ABSTRACT

The term ‘styled’, in the title of this chapter, means neither that styled semantic networks (SSNs) are stylish, nor that they are designed to reflect writing styles-even if they indeed give a flavour of the style of the discourse they represent. In a more prosaic way, the word ‘styled’ is borrowed from the vocabulary of word processing, where a style summarizes the font, size and face of a piece of text. In SSNs, a large amount of information is conveyed by the style of the text which labels vertices and edges of the networks.