Learning by understanding analogies

DOI10.1016/0004-3702(88)90032-XMaRDI QIDQ1104112zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Russell Greiner

Publication date 1988

Published in Artificial Intelligence (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0004-3702(88)90032-X

zbMATH Keywords

abstractionsAnalogical inferencelearning systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Learning and adaptive systems in artificial intelligence (68T05)

Review text

Analogical inference is a process which proposes new conjectures about a target analogue based on facts known about a source analogue. This article formally defines this process and discusses how to efficiently guide it to the conjectures which can help to solve a given problem. The intuition that a useful analogy provides the information needed to solve the problem, and no more, leads to two sets of heuristics: one set based on abstractions - abstract relations which encode solutions to previous problems - and the second, based on a preference for the most general set of new conjectures. Experimental data, collected using a program which embodies this theory of analogy, confirms the effectiveness of these ideas.

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