Conceptual Blending - Computational Models

Computational Models

Conceptual blending is closely related to frame-based theories, but goes beyond these primarily in that it is a theory of how to combine frames (or frame-like objects). An early computational model of a process called "View Application", which is closely related to conceptual blending, was implemented in the 1980s by J. Shrager at CMU and PARC, and applied in the domains of causal reasoning about complex devices, and reasoning in physics. More recent computational accounts of blending have been developed in areas such as mathematics. Some of these later models are based upon Structure Mapping, which did not exist at the time of the earlier implementations.