It accomplishes this through use of scripts. The scripts designate a sequence of actions that are to be performed in chronological fashion for a certain situation. A restaurant script would say that you would need to sit down by a table before you are served dinner. He sat down. He got mad.
Scripts allow CD systems to draw links and inferences between things.
They are also able to classify and distinguish primitive actions. Kicking someone, for example could be a physical action that institutes 'hurt', while loving could be an emotional expressiong that implies 'affection'. Weaknesses Let's move on to a controversial subject involving understanding in natural language systems. In 1950, Dr. Alan Turing, a British mathematician who is now considered the father of AI proposed the Turing's test for intelligence. Specifically, the machine is a natural language system that converses with human subjects.