Preparing slides and supporting material for a talk I'll be delivering at All Things Open[1] in about a week.<p>The talk is titled "AI Sherlock Holmes Style : Introduction to Automated Abductive Inference"<p>So I've been working on slides that cover the different styles of reasoning/inference (deductive, inductive, analogical, statistical, and ... wait for it... abductive), some history, examples, etc., with lots of quotes from the Sherlock Holmes canon woven in to illustrate specific points. It turns out that much of what Holmes did, what he described as "deduction", was really abduction. So that material works in nicely to help make certain points more concrete.<p>As for the implementation, I'm working with Parsimonious Covering Theory, as developed by James Reggia and Yun Peng. I've written a partially complete implementation of their approach, and will be including some live demos of how abduction works with a knowledge-base to generate explanations.<p>[1]: <a href="https://allthingsopen.org" rel="nofollow">https://allthingsopen.org</a>