What are examples of Symbolic Programming?

Question

I have to do a term project in my symbolic programming class. But I'm not really sure what a good/legitimate project would be. Can anyone give me examples of symbolic programming? Just any generic ideas because right now I'm leaning towards a turn based fight game (jrpg style basically), but I really don't want to do a game.

Answer 1

The book Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming, Case Studies in Common Lisp by Peter Norvig is useful in this context.

The book describes in detail symbolic AI programming with Common Lisp.

The examples are in the domain of Computer Algebra, solving mathematical tasks, game playing, compiler implementation and more.

Soon there will be another fun book: The Land of Lisp by Conrad Barski.

Generally there are a lot of possible applications of Symbolic Programming:

• natural language question answering
• natural language story generation
• planning in logistics
• computer algebra
• fault diagnosis of technical systems
• description of catalogs of things and matching
• game playing
• scene understaning
• configuration of technical things