Inference in the Conceptual Dependency Paradigm: A Personal History
Roger C. Schank · Psychology Press eBooks · 2019
The arrows were gotten from dependency theory, which had been written about by D. Hays and used quite a bit by Sheldon Klein and to some extent Sydney Lamb. The most important part of the primitives of Conceptual Dependency for us then were that they facilitated our getting on to the more interesting problems at hand. Adding beliefs to the representation changed the idea of inference as just added information that would help in the parsing of a sentence. Since goals are dominated by themes, detecting what theme and making the appropriate inferences is necessary. R. E. Cullingford described the inferences that Script Applier Mechanism made as: Reference specification, and Causal Chain connection as part of Script Applier. The work on causal connectedness gave us a theory that was helpful in explaining problems of forgetting and remembering, and helped tie together text.