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svdm/SME-clj

Implementation of the Structure-Mapping Engine (Falkenhainer et al., 1989) in Clojure.
Source code at GitHub https://github.com/svdm/SME-clj
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SME-clj is an implementation of the Structure-Mapping Engine [1] in Clojure [3]. It was developed as part of my MSc thesis research [2]. To my knowledge it is one of the only publicly available open source implementations of SME, besides the original Common Lisp code (which is hard to find, and harder still to read).

If you intend to use this implementation and/or understand or modify its code, start by reading the SME algorithm description in [1] if you have not done so. Then, look at the docstring for sme-clj.core, as well as the heat-water analogy example.

Dependencies

Section titled “Dependencies”

Only Clojure 1.2.0 and Clojure-contrib 1.2.0 are required. If Leiningen is available, use lein deps.

Usage

Section titled “Usage”

Like any other Clojure library. See sme-clj.example.simple-heat-water for basic analogical matching.

References

Section titled “References”

  1. Falkenhainer, B., Forbus, K. & Gentner, D. (1989). The structure-mapping engine: algorithm and examples. Artificial Intelligence, 41, 1-62.

  2. van der Meer, S.A. (2010). Making meaningful movements. Unpublished master’s thesis, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. (Available on request, see author section)

  3. http://www.clojure.org/

Author

Section titled “Author”

Stefan van der Meer - stefanvandermeer@gmail.com

See LICENSE file.