Generalize and Blend: Concept Blending Based on Generalization, Analogy, and Amalgams
Tarek R. Besold, Enric Plaza · DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)) · 2015
Concept blending, a cognitive process which allows for the combination of certain elements (and their relations) from originally distinct conceptual spaces into a new unified space combining these previously separate ele- ments and allowing the performance of reasoning and inference over the combination, is taken as a key ele- ment of creative thought and combinatorial creativity. In this paper, we provide an intermediate report on work towards the development of a computational-level and algorithmic-level account of concept blending, present- ing the theoretical background together with the main model characteristics, as well as two case studies.