Analogical mechanisms

摘要

In recent years there has been with the development of research on machine intelligence an increasing interest in the characterization of analogical thinking in artificial intelligence, This research has implications for a variety of different areas: e.g., expert systems, intelligent tutoring, natural language understanding. Thus far, research has had a strong cognitive science orientation, as cognitive psychologists and artificial intelligence researchers have combined to uncover human analogical abilities and computationally model these types of abilities. This paper reviews the trends which have occurred in the short history of this field and assesses some of the future problems which it is likely to face.