类比推理综述

A Survey of Analogical Inference

一、引言“类比充满着我们的思维,日常交谈。从平凡的推论到表达的艺术再到最高的科学成就无不充满着类比。”类比能力是人类智能的核心。在理解、推理、学习、概括等一切智能活动中都涉及到类比。

Mechanical analogy (MA) is one of the importaut themes in artificial intelligence. A great deal of applications may be found in various fields of computer science. In this paper, four types of analogical inferences are defined first. And then, the main theories and methods of MA inference appeared so far are discussed in terms of these types. Finally, some unsolved problems about MA inference are listed and authors, viewpoints to these problems are described. These viewpoints are the basic ground for our further researches.