Reasoning by Analogy Using Holographic Conceptual Projection

Abstract

This thesis discusses the designing of an architecture which mimics a human thought mechanism. The architecture is called a Holographic Conceptual Projection, which uses analogy and dynamic pattern matching combined with some natural language understanding. Our main hypothesis is that we project our way of thinking into words and sentences which we manipulate when thinking verbally. This means we can exploit the structure of sentences to build an algorithm that models our thought mechanism. In our Holographic Conceptual Projection Architecture we give examples of every word within the context patterns. The patterns contain sentences that describe the "condition", "desired situation", "proposition" and "outcome" of the concept. The concept's patterns are then compared with new cases to see analogies. This comparison is done with dynamic generalization and specialization techniques. Finally after building an implementation, we tested it on an intelligent file-management system and an image processing application.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADA406912

Entities

People

  • Yilmaz Degirmenci

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Cognitive Science
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Image Processing
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Natural Language Understanding
  • Natural Languages
  • Operating Systems
  • Psychology
  • Reasoning
  • Specialization
  • Thinking
  • Three Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.