An interference matching technique for inducing abstractions

  • Authors:
  • Frederick Hayes-Roth;John McDermott

  • Affiliations:
  • The RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA;Carnegie-Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1978

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Abstract

A method for inducing knowledge by abstraction from a sequence of training examples is described. The proposed method, interference matching, induces abstractions by finding relational properties common to two or more exemplars. Three tasks solved by a program that uses an interference-matching algorithm are presented. Several problems concerning the description of the training examples and the adequacy of interference matching are discussed, and directions for future research are considered.