Table Of ContentKnowledge discovery in databases: An overview.- On the complexity of some Inductive Logic Programming problems.- Inductive logic programming and constraint logic programming (abstract).- Learning phonetic rules in a speech recognition system.- Cautious induction in inductive logic programming.- Generating numerical literals during refinement.- Lookahead and discretization in ILP.- Data mining via ILP: The application of Progol to a database of enantioseparations.- Part-of-speech tagging using Progol.- Maximum Entropy modeling with Clausal Constraints.- Mining association rules in multiple relations.- Using logical decision trees for clustering.- Induction of Slovene nominal paradigms.- Normal forms for inductive logic programming.- On a sufficient condition for the existence of most specific hypothesis in progol.- Induction of logic programs with more than one recursive clause by analyzing saturations.- A logical framework for graph theoretical decision tree learning.- Learning with abduction.- Systematic Predicate Invention in Inductive Logic Programming.- Learning programs in the event calculus.- Distance between Herbrand interpretations: A measure for approximations to a target concept.- Realizing Progol by forward reasoning.- Probabilistic first-order classification.- Learning Horn definitions with equivalence and membership queries.- Using abstraction schemata in inductive logic programming.- Distance induction in first order logic.- Carcinogenesis predictions using ILP.- Discovery of first-order regularities in a relational database using ofine candidate determination.- Which hypotheses can be found with inverse entailment'.
SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Inductive Logic Programming, ILP-97, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in September 1997. The volume presents revised versions of nine papers in long version and 17 short papers accepted after a thorough reviewing process. Also included are three invited papers by Usama Fayyad, Jean-Francois Puget, and Georg Gottlob. Among the topics addressed are various logic programming issues, natural language processing, speech processing, abductive learning, data mining, knowledge discovery, and relational database systems.