Macchine per analogie. Note sul trattamento automatico dell’analogia

Alfio Ferrara; Massimo Parodi; Amalia Salvestrini

doi:10.54103/2035-7362/19492

Machines for analogies. Notes on automatic analogy processing

Authors

Alfio Ferrara University of Milan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4991-4984
Massimo Parodi University of Milan https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2570-0946
Amalia Salvestrini Laboratoire d'études sur les monothéismes https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6598-6171

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54103/2035-7362/19492

Keywords:

Analogy, Natural Language Processing, Neural networks, Historiography, Augustine of Hippo

Abstract

This article aims to reflect on how analogy is understood and treated by the class of formal information processing methods that deal with analysing written text. In particular, we consider how machines that ‘understand’ analogies can be constructed. For this purpose, exemplifications from Augustine of Hippo’s De Civitate Dei will be used. The initial investigations carried out on this corpus, albeit limited, lead one to reflect on the theoretical and historiographical significance of the automatic treatment of analogy also in formulating or supporting interpretative hypotheses.

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Published

2023-06-01

Issue

No. 18 (2023): Analogy and Middle Ages, sive twenty years of analogies

Section

Saggi

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