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Body-Based Reasoning Using a Feeling-Based Lexicon, Mental Imagery, and an Object-Oriented Metaphor Hierarchy

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Our computer reasoning system uses a set of memory networks, a spatial simulator and an object-oriented hierarchy of body-based spatial metaphors to reason about abstract concepts. The metaphor hierarchy is based on the hierarchical nature of embodied actions, and the simulator is designed to model these actions. The system maps its input to a set of spatial metaphors at the most detailed level possible, and then uses modeling of the metaphorical concepts to reason about the original input.

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  1. Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL, 60605, USA

    Eric G. Berkowitz

  2. Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, 60616, USA

    Peter H. Greene

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, T6G 2E8

    Eleni Stroulia

  2. School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, K1N 6N5

    Stan Matwin

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Berkowitz, E.G., Greene, P.H. (2001). Body-Based Reasoning Using a Feeling-Based Lexicon, Mental Imagery, and an Object-Oriented Metaphor Hierarchy. In: Stroulia, E., Matwin, S. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence. Canadian AI 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2056. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45153-6_5

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