Inductive Logic Programming: 8th International Conference, ILP-98, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, July 22-24, 1998, Proceedings

by David Page (Editor)

Attribute-value learning versus inductive logic The missing links.- Advances in ILP theory and implementations.- Application of ILP to problems in chemistry and biology.- Relational reinforcement learning.- Learning first-order acyclic Horn programs from entailment.- Combining statistical and relational methods for learning in hypertext domains.- Application of inductive logic programming to discover rules governing the three-dimensional topology of protein structure.- Term comparisons in first-order similarity measures.- Stochastic propositionalization of non-determinate background knowledge.- A stochastic simple similarity.- Using prior probabilities and density estimation for relational classification.- Induction of Constraint Grammar-rules using Progol.- A hybrid approach to word segmentation.- Learning multilingual morphology with Clog.- Using ILP-systems for verification and validation of multi-agent systems.- Inducing shogi heuristics using inductive logic programming.- Repeat learning using predicate invention.- Normal programs and multiple predicate learning.- Strongly typed inductive concept learning.- Function-free Horn clauses are hard to approximate.- A GA-based relational learner.- Generalization under implication by ?-subsumption.- Prolog, refinements and RLGG's.- Learning structurally indeterminate clauses.- Completing Inverse Entailment.- Distances and limits on Herbrand interpretations.- Relational distance-based clustering.- A framework for defining distances between first-order logic objects.- Detecting traffic problems with ILP.- A comparison of ILP and propositional systems on propositional traffic data.

316 pages, Paperback

First published August 13, 1998

About the author

David Page was a British journalist, historian, media expert, academic, educator, author and policy researcher. He developed a firm interest in South Asia and he extensively engaged in researching South Asian related demographic aspects and political landscape. He was also responsible for handling majority of the radio broadcasts in South Asian languages. He was a keen observer of the major sequence of events which took place in South Asia. He was also a former editor and manager of the BBC South Asian Services. He spent over 20 years working closely with the BBC World Service as its correspondent.