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19691960s
Roger Schank
Cognitive scientist who developed Conceptual Dependency theory for natural language processing.
Organizations
Yale UniversityNorthwestern UniversityStanford University
Major Achievements
- •Developed Conceptual Dependency theory, mapping sentences to primitive semantic structures.
- •Advocated for Case-Based Reasoning, an AI paradigm based on leveraging specific past experiences rather than generalized rules.
- •Pioneered massive changes in educational software and learning-by-doing.
Key Papers
- Conceptual Dependency: A Theory of Natural Language Understanding
Roger C. Schank · Cognitive Psychology · 1972
Videos
Keynote at DARPA, Part 1 of 4, Roger Schank
Roger Schank