Conceptual dependency theory

Conceptual dependency theory is a model of natural language understanding used in artificial intelligence systems.

Roger Schank and others augmented the conceptual dependency theory with the use of scripts (short stories of typical sequences of events that don't leave out any events) and the use of knowledge of people's plans and goals to make sense of stories ...

He enlightened the field of natural language with his conceptual dependency theory and invented the concept of "script". The well-known NLP program SAM was constructed according to his 'script" scheme.

underlying concept in conceptual dependency theory, an abstract concept used in the representation of a verb, e.g., ``run'' would have PTRANS (physical transfer) as an underlying concept.

See also: Knowledge, Artificial intelligence, AI, Knowledge representation, Turing test