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Automating the ILP setup task: Converting user advice about specific examples into general background knowledge

  • Trevor Walker
  • , Ciaran O'Reilly
  • , Gautam Kunapuli
  • , Sriraam Natarajan
  • , Richard MacLin
  • , David Page
  • , Jude Shavlik

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Abstract

Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) provides an effective method of learning logical theories given a set of positive examples, a set of negative examples, a corpus of background knowledge, and specification of a search space (e.g., via mode definitions) from which to compose the theories. While specifying positive and negative examples is relatively straightforward, composing effective background knowledge and search-space definition requires detailed understanding of many aspects of the ILP process and limits the usability of ILP. We introduce two techniques to automate the use of ILP for a non-ILP expert. These techniques include automatic generation of background knowledge from user-supplied information in the form of a simple relevance language, used to describe important aspects of specific training examples, and an iterative-deepening-style search process.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationInductive Logic Programming - 20th International Conference, ILP 2010, Revised Papers
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages253-268
Number of pages16
ISBN (Print)9783642212949
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume6489 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Keywords

  • Advice Taking
  • Human Teaching of Machines

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