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title: "Scripts, Plans and Knowledge"
authors:
  - "Roger C. Schank"
  - "Robert P. Abelson"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1975/23"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1975/0023.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1975
pages: "151-156"
track: "Representation Of Problems and Knowledge"
keywords:
---

# Scripts, Plans and Knowledge

Roger C. Schank, Robert P. Abelson

*Proceedings of the Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 151-156.

## Abstract

We describe a theoretical system intended to facilitate the use of knowledge in an understanding system. The notion of script is introduced to account for knowledge about mundane situations. A program ·, SAM, is capable of using scripts to understand. The notion of plans is introduced to account for general knowledge about novel situations.