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I was looking for the answer to this same question. It was answered definitively by the game designer: yes it counts a specialist for scoring purposes

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2071289/aristocrat

I got into an interesting situation today in a game of The King's Guild. Game (https://boardgamearena.com/9/kingsguild?table=154679251) if you want to take a closer look. It was my last turn of the game, and I had Bard on my board, and all my current chamber rooms full (but three free spaces in the ...