Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!MCC.COM!AI.ELLIE From: AI.ELLIE@MCC.COM (Ellie Huck) Newsgroups: mod.ai Subject: Seminar - Learning by Understanding Analogies (MCC) Message-ID: <12263054195.34.AI.ELLIE@MCC.COM> Date: Mon, 15-Dec-86 15:08:36 EST Article-I.D.: MCC.12263054195.34.AI.ELLIE Posted: Mon Dec 15 15:08:36 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 19-Dec-86 07:10:11 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 25 Approved: ailist@sri-stripe.arpa Please join the AI Group for the following speaker: Russell Greiner Department of Computer Science University of Toronto Tuesday, December 16 Balcones Facility 10:00am - Room 2.806 LEARNING BY UNDERSTANDING ANALOGIES This presentation describes a method for learning by analogy -- i.e., for proposing new conjectures about a target analogue based on facts known about a source analogue. After formally defining this process, we present heuristics which efficiently guide it to the conjectures which can help solve a given problem. These rules are based on the view that a useful anlogy is one which provides the information needed to solve the problem, and no more. Experimental data confirms the effectiveness of this approach. Tuesday, December 16 10:00am Room 2.806 -------