Script Processing

The motivation for script theory, experimental evidence for scripts, and scripts as com­putational structures are briefly reviewed below (for more details, see e.g. Dyer et al. 1987; Schank and Abelson 1977).

DISCERN (Distributed SCript processing and Episodic memoRy Net­work) is a distributed artificial neural network system and model of script process­ing that learns to process simple stereotypical narratives.