ABSTRACT
When asked if we know anything about a topic, we will more than likely describe what we know by telling stories related to our experiences with the topic. Replay and analyze most any conversation you have with friends, and it will probably be comprised of a series of stories. One person tells a story to make a point, which reminds other conversants of related events, so they tell the stories that they were reminded of, which in turn remind others of stories, and so on. Why do we use stories to foster conversation? Because we remember so much of what we know in the form of stories. Stories are a rich and powerful formalisms for storing and describing memories. So, one way to analyze what people know is to analyze their stories. The means for analyzing stories is called case-based reasoning (CBR).
