American cognitive scientist and AI researcher who developed conceptual dependency theory and the notion of scripts — stereotyped event sequences stored in memory that enable natural language understanding.
Scripts: understanding narratives requires stored knowledge of stereotyped event sequences (restaurant script: enter, sit, order, eat, pay, leave); natural language understanding requires world knowledge, not just syntax. Contributed to the early development of AI natural language processing.
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