Life is a Circus and We are the Clowns: Automatically Finding Analogies between Situations and Processes (2022.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Analogy-making gives rise to reasoning, abstraction, flexible categorization and counterfactual inference – abilities that current AI systems lack. |
| Approach: | They propose an interpretable, scalable algorithm that extracts analogies from a pair of natural language procedural texts and finds a mapping between the different domains based on relational similarity. |
| Outcome: | The proposed algorithm can extract analogies from a large dataset and achieve 79% precision. |
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