Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
9-2025
Publication Title
The 9th Image Schema Day: Interdisciplinary workshop held at JOWO
Abstract
Recent studies of large language models (LLMs) have revealed that they lack human-like cognitive models of reasoning and understanding. An important thread of research merges image schemas into symbolic artificial intelligence systems where their use as conceptual building blocks and primitives shows promise for the study of human cognition through intelligent systems that perform neurosymbolically. The work presented in this paper demonstrates image schema primitives being used in structures of a representation system called conceptual dependency (CD) and in broader commonsense knowledge structures called scripts. We present a story under- standing system that uses image schemas as primitives in scripts that encode stereotypical sequences of events within familiar contexts, such as dining at a restaurant or visiting a doctor. We explain the content and structure of an image schema script, and demonstrate the Image Schema Script Applier (ISSA) as it processes a story and performs anaphora resolution, inference, and summarization.
Keywords
Image Schemas, Scripts, Story Understanding
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Recommended Citation
Macbeth, Jamie C.; Zhang, Boming; and Badhan, Sharmin, "Script-based Inferences in an Image Schema Story Understander" (2025). Computer Science: Faculty Publications, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
https://scholarworks.smith.edu/csc_facpubs/427
Comments
The 9th Image Schema Day is an interdisciplinary workshop devoted to cognitive primitives, spatial reasoning, embodied cognition, analogical reasoning and investigations of the puzzle pieces of mind.It was held in Cantania, Italy 8-12 September, 2025