Conceptual dependency theory: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 16:14, 19 February 2010

Revision as of 16:15, 19 February 2010

Line 5:

Schank developed the model to represent knowledge for natural language input into computers. Partly influenced by the work of [[Sydney Lamb]], his goal was to make the meaning independent of the words used in the input, i.e. two sentences identical in meaning, would have a single representation. The system was also intended to draw logical inferences.<ref>Cardiff University on Conceptual dependency theory [http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/AI2/node69.html]</ref>

The model uses the following basic representational tokens:<ref>''Language, mind, and brain'' by Thomas W. Simon, Robert J. Scholes 1982 ISBN 0898591538 page 105</ref>

<ref>''Language, mind, and brain'' by Thomas W. Simon, Robert J. Scholes 1982 ISBN 0898591538 page 105</ref>

:* ''real world objects'', each with some ''attributes''.

:* ''real world actions'', each with attributes