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∂10 Feb 1984  15:23 EST (Fri)	"Daniel S. Weld" <WELD%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC>	Revolving Seminar

                     [Forwarded by SASW@MIT-MC.]

Wednesday, February 15, 4:00pm 8th floor playroom

Structure-Mapping: A Theoretical Framework for Analogy
Dedre Gentner

The structure-mapping theory of analogy describes a set of
principles by which the interpretation of an analogy is derived
from the meanings of its terms.  These principles are
characterized as implicit rules for mapping knowledge about a
base domain into a target domain.  Two important features of the
theory are (1) the rules depend only on syntactic properties of
the knowledge representation, and not on the specific content of
the domains; and (2) the theoretical framework allows analogies
to be distinguished cleanly from literal similarity statements,
applications of general laws, and other kinds of comparisons.

Two mapping principles are described: (1) Relations between
objects, rather than attributes of objects, are mapped from base
to target; and (2) The particular relations mapped are determined
by @u(systematicity), as defined by the existence of higher-order
relations.  Psychological experiments supporting the theory are
described, and implications for theories of learning are
discussed.


COMING SOON: Tomas Lozano-Perez, Jerry Barber, Dan Carnese, Bob Berwick, ...

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Date: 18 Feb 1984 2051-PST