Inductive logic programming (ILP) is a research area at the intersection of inductive machine learning and logic programming. The general aim of ILP is to develop theories, techniques and applications of inductive learning from observations and background knowledge represented relationally in a first order logical framework. Recent developments have brought ILP closer to practical applications: ILP has been successfully used in a variety of domains including ecology, mechanical engineering, molecular biology, natural language processing and traffic control.
On one hand, ILP is a relatively new discipline that attracts an increasing amount of research efforts. On the other hand, ILP is mature enough to have developed a number of tools applicable in practice. It is thus an important technology that can be used in a variety of areas ranging from relational knowledge discovery to relational reinforcement learning.
The tutorial day follows up on the successful Summer School on Inductive Logic Programming and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, held in Prague, Czech Republic in September 1997. It will provide its attendants with an introduction to the field of ILP and an overview of state-of-the-art ILP techniques and applications. Natural language processing applications of ILP will receive special attention since NLP is at the same time one of the most promising and one of the most challenging application areas for ILP. Open issues in ILP will also be discussed. The ILP tutorial day is complementary to the ILP-98 Conference, where further overviews/descriptions of ILP techniques and applications will be given in the invited talks and the technical program (e.g., applications in molecular biology, traffic control).
MORNING:
8:00 Registration
8:20 Welcome
8:30 Nada Lavrac:
An introduction to inductive logic programming
9:15 Saso Dzeroski:
An overview of ILP applications
10:00 Coffee break
10:30 Luc De Raedt:
Systems that learn from interpretations
11:15 Stefan Wrobel:
Inductive logic programming
for knowledge discovery in databases
12:00 Lunch
AFTERNOON:
13:00 Ray Mooney:
Applications of ILP to natural language processing in the US
13:45 James Cussens:
Applications of ILP to natural language processing in Europe
14:30 Coffee break
15:00 Stephen Muggleton:
Open issues in inductive logic programming
15:45 Discussion
Saso Dzeroski
Jozef Stefan Institute
Jamova 39
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia
Email: Saso.Dzeroski@ijs.si
David Page
Department of Engineering Mathematics and Computer Science
Speed Scientific School
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY 40292, USA
Email: cdpage@louisville.edu