A Schema-Based Framework for Representing Knowledge

Abstract

Life is normally easy to comprehend. We are rarely challenged when we comprehend the social and physical world. In fact, most of our everyday experiences are familiar and predictable. Imagine the stereotypical working male. During weekdays he gets up, eats breakfast, goes to work, talks with friends and enemies, works, drinks coffee, tells jokes, eats lunch, works some more, goes home, eats supper, putters around with the family, drinks beer, watches television, and maybe reads the newspaper. Almost everything that happens makes sense. Events that do not make sense are probably ignored.