Towards a frame based lexicon: The case of RISK – Charles J. Fillmore and B. T. Atkins (1992) Introduces the notion of frame semantics. A word’s meaning can be understood only with reference to a structured background experience, beliefs, or practices, constituting a conceptual prerequisite for understanding the meaning. The meaning of a word can only […]
Scripts, Plans, Goals, and Understanding: An Inquiry into Human Knowledge Structures – Schank & Abelson 1977 Representations of meaning must make all implicit information explicit. Uses decomposition into semantic primitives. Noun semantics can be reconstructed from episodic appearances. Rejects semantic memory systems in favor of episodic representations. Uses meaning postulates between semantic primitives to capture causal […]
Understanding Natural Language – Winograd 1972 Describes the Blockworld system. Argues for many features of modern linguistic theory including phrase and feature based syntax, a semantics based on relations, properties, events and objects. Introduces language understanding as the task of translating between a string representation of a language and a conceptual representation suitable for inference […]