{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"The Conceptual Content of Conversation","authors":[{"name":"Roger C. Schank","slug":"roger-c-schank","given":"Roger C.","family":"Schank","affiliation":""},{"name":"Wendy G. Lehnert","slug":"wendy-g-lehnert","given":"Wendy G.","family":"Lehnert","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"This paper outlines a strategy for conversational analysis that utilizes multiple levels of information flow in order to characterize the conceptual content of a conversation. The role of predictive knowledge structures and contextual information is illustrated in an analysis of a sample conversation, along with a partial outline of conversational rules specific to particular levels of conversational analysis.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/169","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/0169.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/169.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/bibtex/169","volume":{"slug":"1979","title":"Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1979","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/","year":1979,"location":"Tokyo, Japan","dates":"August 20-23, 1979","editors":"Bruce G. Buchanan","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":null,"track":"","number":169,"pages":{"first":null,"last":null},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}