A self-watching model of analogy-making and perception
A self-watching model of analogy-making and perception
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类比和感知的自我观察模型
DOI:
10.1080/09528130600758626
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发表时间:
2006
影响因子:
2.2
通讯作者:
James B. Marshall
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文献类型:
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作者:
James B. Marshall
This paper describes Metacat, an extension of the Copycat model of analogy-making. The development of Copycat focused on modelling context-sensitive concepts and the ways in which they interact with perception within an abstract microworld of analogy problems. This approach differs from most other models of analogy in its insistence that concepts acquire their semantics from within the system itself, through perception, rather than being imposed from the outside. The present work extends these ideas by incorporating self-perception, episodic memory, and reminding into the model. These mechanisms enable Metacat to explain the similarities and differences that it perceives between analogies, and to monitor and respond to patterns that occur in its own behaviour as it works on analogy problems. This introspective capacity overcomes several limitations inherent in the earlier model, and affords the program a powerful degree of self-control. Metacat's architecture includes aspects of both symbolic and connectionist systems. The paper outlines the principal components of the architecture, analyses several sample runs and examples of program-generated commentary about analogies, and discusses Metacat's relation to some other well-known models of analogy.
影响因子:
4
作者:
HARNAD, S
通讯作者:
HARNAD, S
影响因子:
2.5
作者:
GENTNER, D
通讯作者:
GENTNER, D