Disadvantages of Frames
Frames encourage baroque representations; little guide to good structuring
of a domain.
Some things that can be represented in logic cannot be represented well --
or at all -- in frames:[Michael Genesereth,
lecture presented at Stanford.]
- Slot fillers must be ``real'' data. For example, it is not possible
to say that John is a butcher or a baker, since there is no way to
deal with a disjunction in a slot filler.
- It is not possible to quantify over slots. For example, there is no
way to represent ``Some student made 100 on the exam''.
- It is necessary to repeat the same information to make it usable from
different viewpoints, since methods are associated with slots or particular
object types. (For example, it may be easy to answer ``whom does John
love?'' but hard to answer ``who loves Mary?''.)
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