Heterogeneous Reasoning

  • Authors:
  • John Etchemendy

  • Affiliations:
  • Stanford University, Stanford, USA 94305-4101

  • Venue:
  • Diagrams '08 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Diagrammatic Representation and Inference
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

During the 1990s, we developed the theory of formal heterogeneous deduction: logically valid inference that involves information expressed using multiple different representations. The Hyperproofprogram was developed as an implementation of that theory, and permitted deductions using sentences of first-order logic and blocks world diagrams.We have since been generalizing both the theory and the implementation to allow applications in a wide variety of domains.