Readings in Analogy-Making

Posted on December 20, 2007 by Peter Turney

Here are some links to interesting books, papers, people, and websites related to analogy-making and metaphor. If I’m missing a link that you would recommend, please leave a comment. Look here for a list of quotations about analogy-making and metaphor. There is no particular order to these lists.

Books

• Metaphors We Live By
• Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things
• Where Mathematics Comes From
• More than Cool Reason
• The Way We Think
• Mental Leaps
• The Analogical Mind
• The Symbolic Species
• Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies
• Analogy Making as Perception
• The Subtlety of Sameness

Papers

• Computational models of analogy-making
• Structure-mapping: A theoretical framework for analogy
• Are scientific analogies metaphors?
• Metaphor is like analogy
• Why we’re so smart
• The structure-mapping engine
• The structure-mapping engine: Algorithm and examples
• Metabank: a knowledge-base of metaphoric language conventions
• CorMet: A Computational, Corpus-Based Conventional Metaphor Extraction System
• Coupled Clustering: A Method for Detecting Structural Correspondence
• Metaphor as an Emergent Property of Machine-Readable Dictionaries
• High-Level Perception, Representation, and Analogy: A Critique of Artificial Intelligence Methodology
• Structure-Mapping vs. High-level Perception: The Mistaken Fight Over The Explanation of Analogy
• Analogy Just Looks Like High Level Perception: Why a Domain-General Approach to Analogical Mapping is Right
• Similarity of Semantic Relations
• [And many more: I'll add to this list when I have some more time.]

People

• Dedre Gentner
• Douglas Hofstadter
• Robert French
• George Lakoff
• Gilles Fauconnier
• Mark Turner
• Yves Lepage
• Jaime Carbonell
• Paul Thagard
• Keith Holyoak
• Melanie Mitchel
• Tony Veale
• Boicho Kokinov
• James Martin
• Peter Turney

Websites

• Conceptual Metaphor Home Page
• Center for the Cognitive Science of Metaphor Online
• Blending and Conceptual Integration
• A Talk With George Lakoff
• Lakoff on Conceptual Metaphor
• Image Analogies
• Emotional Analogies
• Toward a Cognitive Semantics
• Analogical Reasoning
• Analogy as the Core of Cognition
• Wikipedia: Analogy
• Wikipedia: Metaphor