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Analogy and Structure

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Introduction

  2. Structuralist Descriptions

  3. Analogical Descriptions

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Analogy and Structure provides the necessary foundation for understanding the nature of analogical and structuralist (or rule-based) approaches to describing behavior. In the first part of this book, the mathematical properties of rule approaches are developed; in the second part, the analogical alternative to rules is developed. This book serves as the mathematical basis for Analogical Modeling of Language (Kluwer, 1989). Features include:
A Natural Measure of Uncertainty: The disagreement between randomly chosen occurences avids the difficulties of using entropy as the measure of uncertainty.
Optimal Descriptions: The implicit assumption of structuralist descriptions (namely, that descriptions of behavior should be corrected and minimal) can be derived from more fundamental statements about the uncertainty of rule systems.
Problems with Rule Approaches: The correct description of nondeterministic behavior leads to an atomistic, analog alternative to structuralist (or rule-based) descriptions.
Natural Statistics: Traditional statistical tests are eliminated in favor of statistically equivalent decision rules that involve little or no mathematical calculation.
Psycholinguistic Factors: Analogical models, unlike, neural networks, directly account for probabilistic learning as well as reaction times in world-recognition experiments.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of English, Brigham Young University, USA

    Royal Skousen

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Analogy and Structure

  • Authors: Royal Skousen

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8098-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 1992

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-1935-1Published: 30 September 1992

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4196-8Published: 01 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-8098-4Published: 17 April 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 376

  • Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, general, Linguistics, general

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