Old approaches to NLP

TODO: Schank and Abelson (1977):

• "the best way to approach the problem of building an intelligent machine is to emulate the human conceptual mechanisms that deal with language."
• discussing generality and "form-content distinction":
  • "when the content changes drastically, the form should changes too"
  • "The reader will encounter plenty of abstractions in this book, but each set of them will be pegged specifically to a particular type of real-world content. When generalizing is possible, we will attempt to take advantage of it but we will not try to force generality where it seems unnatural."