How to Upgrade Propositional Learners to First Order Logic: A Case Study

Wim Van Laer and Luc De Raedt. In Saso Dzeroski and Nada Lavrac, editors, Relational Data Mining, pages 235--261. Springer-Verlag, September 2001. More behind this link.

Abstract

We describe a methodology for upgrading existing attribute-value learners towards first-order logic. This method has several advantages: one can profit from existing research on propositional learners (and inherit its efficiency and effectiveness), relational learners (and inherit its expressiveness) and PAC-learning (and inherit its theoretical basis). Moreover there is a clear relationship between the new relational system and its propositional counterpart.This makes the ILP system easy to use and understand by users familiar with the propositional counterpart. We demonstrate the methodology on the ICL system which is an upgrade of the propositional learner CN2.

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Wim Van Laer, Wim.VanLaer@cs.kuleuven.ac.be,