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title: "Organization and Retrieval in a Conceptual Memory for Events or CON 54, Where Are You?"
authors:
  - "Janet L. Kolodner"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/47"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/0047.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1981
pages: "227-232"
track: "Nowledge Representation"
keywords:
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# Organization and Retrieval in a Conceptual Memory for Events or CON 54, Where Are You?

Janet L. Kolodner

*Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 227-232.

## Abstract

In the course of a normal day, people effortlessly recall past events and episodes from their lives. A reasonable goal in the design of computer programs is to construct a memory with that same capability. To facilitate such retrieval of events from a computer memory, we must ' first specify a reasonable memory organization. We must then design updating and retrieval processes to build up and access that information. This paper will present such a theory, and will describe a computer program named CYRUS which implements the theory.