抄録
Meaning is a serious problem to be solved in many fields such as databases, natural language understanding, artificial intelligence etc. It is necessary to analyze property of information for semantic processing. This paper describes an information model called the semantic structure model which is based on property of information. The semantic structure model focuses on internal structure of concepts, overlapping among concepts and relativity of concepts. The semantic structure model is formulated as extened hypergraphs, and can handle properties of information mentioned above.