Jim Davies: Publications

Davies, J., Goel, A. K. & Nersessian, N. J. (2003). Visual re-representation in creative analogies. In A. Cardoso & Gero, J. (Eds.) The Third Workshop on Creative Systems.International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.}

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The first appearance of the theory of re-representation as the purpose of visual analogy, framed as answering an important issue in computational and cognitive creativity.

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@InProceedings{DaviesGoelNersessian2003,
  author = 	 {Davies, Jim and Goel, Ahsok K. and Nersessian, Nancy
  J.},
  title = 	 {Visual re-representation in creative analogies},
  booktitle = 	 {The Third Workshop on Creative Systems},
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  OPTnote = 	 {Held as part of IJCAI 2003},
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From the Visual Analogy research theme.

Abstract

Visual representations seem to play a significant role in many creative analogies. In this paper, we describe a specific role of visual representations: two situations that appear dissimilar non-visually may appear similar when re-represented visually. We present a computational theory of multi-modal analogy in which visual re-representation enables analogical transfer in cases where there are ontological mismatches in the non-visual representation. We have developed a computer program, called {\em Galatea}, that implements a core part of our theory: it transfers problem-solving procedures between analogs containing only visual knowledge. In this paper, we describe both how Galatea accomplishes the transfer task using only visual knowledge and how it might be extended to support visual re-representation in multi-modal analogies.

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