Analogy with Qualitative Spatial Representations Can Simulate Solving Raven's Progressive Matrices

Abstract

We use SME, a domain-general model of analogy, to solve a set of problems from the Raven's Progressive Matrices.SME is used in a two-stage mapping process which we have previously shown to be effective for solving geometric analogy problems.Each problem is drawn in PowerPoint and input into sKEA, our sketch understanding system.sKEA automatically computes qualitative representations of the drawings, using a spatial representation scheme motivated by research on human perception.We show that the representations generated by sKEA can be used with SME to solve the Raven's Progressive Matrices problems, without using any processes specifically designed for the task.