🧑‍🔬 Kenneth D. Forbus

🏛️ Affiliations

🎓Northwestern UniversityEvanston · United States1990–2026 · 189 papersEmployment since 1990 · Professor, Computer Sciencecurrent🎓University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUrbana · United States1986–1990 · 18 papers🎓Northwestern UniversityLaoag · Philippines2009–2023 · 14 papers🎓Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridge · United States1977–1993 · 9 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 5 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

🧭 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📅 Works by year

1990s

1980s

📄 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. The structure-mapping engine: Algorithm and examples (1989 · 1,487 citations)
   The paper presents the Structure-Mapping Engine (SME), a program that computationally models the mapping stage of analogy under Gentner's Structure-mapping theory.
2. MAC/FAC: A model of similarity-based retrieval (1995 · 742 citations)
   Similarity-based memory retrieval presents a puzzle. When people compare two cases side by side, they weight shared relational structure more than surface overlap. When recalling from long-term memory, however, surface resemblance tends to dominate, yet purely analogical remindings still occur occasionally.

All works

7 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

1. The structure-mapping engine: Algorithm and examplesArtificial IntelligenceBrian Falkenhainer, Kenneth D. Forbus, Dedre Gentner1989 · 1,487 citations
2. MAC/FAC: A model of similarity-based retrievalCognitive ScienceKenneth D. Forbus, Dedre Gentner, Keith Law1995 · 742 citations
3. Neural Symbolic Machines: Learning Semantic Parsers on Freebase with Weak Supervision ↗Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yetChen Liang et al.2017 · 522 citations
4. Neural Symbolic Machines: Learning Semantic Parsers on Freebase with Weak Supervision (Short Version) ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetLiang Chen et al.2016 · 8 citations
5. The Illinois Intentional Tort Qualitative Dataset ↗JURIX 2022 — Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (IOS Press, FAIA) · no summary yetJoseph Blass, Kenneth Forbus2022 · 4 citations
6. A Defeasible Deontic Calculus for Resolving Norm Conflicts ↗arXiv:2407.04869 · no summary yetTaylor Olson, Roberto Salas-Damian, Kenneth D. Forbus2024 · 2 citations
7. New Frontiers in Computational Models of Grammatical Development - eScholarship ↗Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society · no summary yetMicah B. Goldwater et al.2012

🤝 Co-authors here

1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first.

• Dedre Gentner ×2

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

• Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence 1989
• Cognitive Science: Cognitive Science 1995
• JURIX 2022 — Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (IOS Press, FAIA)
• Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
• Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

🔗 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 184 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 25 citing papers with a page here →.

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