ERC Starting Grant · 2019
Scaling Up Innovation through Analogy Mining
Many world-changing breakthroughs in science and technology were enabled by analogical transfer, as ideas from one domain were used to solve a problem in another. Observing water led the Greek philosopher Chrysippus to speculate that sound was a wave phenomenon; an analogy to twisting a cardboard box allowed the Wright brothers to design a steerable aircraft. Despite its value for innovation, very little progress has been made towards automating the process of analogy-finding in real-world settings, and the problem has maintained a longstanding status as a "holy grail" in artificial intelligence (AI). The goal of this proposal is to tackle head-on this important problem and develop…
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