Roger Schank (1946 to 2023) was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist who worked at Yale University, Stanford University and Northwestern University, known for pioneering conceptual dependency theory for natural language understanding and case based reasoning as an approach to artificial intelligence. Both ideas challenged conventional cognitivist accounts of how memory and reasoning work and reshaped how researchers understood knowledge representation in computational systems.
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What did Roger Schank mean by scripts?
Scripts were larger units of stored experience that let a computer learn from examples.
Schank used the word scripts for larger building blocks of knowledge. He first worked out ways to represent simple concepts in symbols a computer could handle, in what he called conceptual dependency theory. He then assembled that raw material into the equivalent of human memories of past experience, and he regarded these scripts as ingredients for learning from examples, an approach known as case based reasoning.
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Roger Carl Schank (March 12, 1946, January 29, 2023) was an American artificial intelligence theorist, cognitive psychologist, learning scientist, educational reformer, and entrepreneur.
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