The Eighth International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming - ILP'98David Page The Eighth International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming (ILP'98) was held July 22-24, 1998, on the campus of the University of Wisconsin, in Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A. ILP'98 was co-located with the Fifteenth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'98), the Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, the Tenth Annual Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI'98), the Eleventh Annual Conference on Computational Learning Theory (COLT'98), the Third Annual Genetic Programming Conference (GP'98), the Fourteenth Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence Conference (UAI'98), the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci'98), and the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse. An ILP Tutorial Day, was held the day before ILP'98. ILP-98 Proceedings were published by Springer (LNCS/LNAI 1446, ISBN 3-540-64738-4). Content Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) is the study of automated inductive learning where the knowledge representation used is first-order definite clause logic. The richness of the representation makes ILP particularly well-suited to domains such as organic chemistry and molecular biology, natural language processing, and elecommunications, where examples are easily described as sets of objects (e.g., atoms in a molecule) together with relations that hold among those objects (e.g., bonds or distance relations). Traditionally ILP researchers have shown equally great interest in papers describing (1) theoretical advances, (2) implementations of new or improved systems, and (3) novel applications. The ILP'98 Schedule ILP'98 Chair David Page
Program Committee Francesco Bergadano Extended presentations and Invited talks were 40 minute presentations with an additional 10 minutes for questions. All other presentations were 20 minutes long with an additional 5 minutes for questions. The schedule of the ILP-98 invited talks overlaped with ICML/COLT/UAI. In addition there was a joint poster session on Saturday. Programme: Wednesday, July 22: MORNING (Grainger Hall, Room 1220) 9:00 SESSION 1 Combining Statistical and
Relational Methods for Learning 10:05 SESSION 2 Using Prior Probabilities
and Density Estimation for Relational A Stochastic Simple Similarity
[ILP-6] 11:10 SESSION 3 Induction of Constraint Grammar-Rules
Using Progol [ILP-7] Learning Multilingual Morphology
with CLOG [ILP-9] 1:30 SESSION 4 Prolog, Refinements and RLGG's
[ILP-11] Completing Inverse Entailment
[ILP-4] Normal Programs and Multiple
Predicate Learning [ILP-13] 2:45 ILP COMMUNITY MEETING (Refreshments arrive at 3:10) 3:40 SESSION 5 Learning Structurally Indeterminate
Clauses [ILP-14] Detecting Traffic Problems
with ILP [ILP-15] S. Muggleton, and W. Van Laer
Thursday, July 23: 9:00 SESSION 1 Term Comparisons in First-Order
Similarity 10:05 SESSION 2 Distances and Limits on Herbrand
Interpretations A Framework for Defining Distances
Between First-Order Logic Objects [ILP-19] 11:35 SESSION 3 Using ILP Systems for Verification
and Validation of Multi-Agent Systems [ILP-20] Strongly Typed Inductive Concept
Learning [ILP-21] 1:30 SESSION 4 Application of Inductive Logic
Programming to Discover Rules Governing the Three-Dimensional Topology
of Protein Structure (Extended Presentation) [ILP-3] Stochastic Propositionalization
of Non-determinate 3:40 SESSION 5 Inducing Shogi Heuristics
Using Inductive Logic Programming [ILP-22] Repeat Learning Using Predicate
Invention [ILP-23] DOGMA: A GA-Based Relational
Learner [ILP-12] Function-Free Horn Clauses
are Hard to Approximate [ILP-17]
Friday, July 24: 8:30 SESSION 1 Joint COLT/ICML/UAI invited
talk Reinforcement Learning: How Far Can It Go? 10:10 SESSION 2 Application of ILP to Problems
in Chemistry and Biology (ILP'98 Invited Talk) Attribute-Value Learning versus
Inductive Logic Programming:The Missing Links (ILP'98 Invited Talk) 1:30 SESSION 3 Advances in ILP Theory and
Implementations (ILP'98 Invited Talk) 3:40 SESSION 4 (2120 Grainger Hall) Joint technical session with
ICML Learning First-Order Acyclic Horn Programs from Entailment [ICML-17] Top-Down Induction of Clustering
Trees [ICML-18] Multistrategy Learning for
Information Extraction [ICML-19] Structural Machine Learning
with Galois Lattice and Graphs [ICML-20] 7:00 Joint COLT/ICML/ILP/UAI
banquet, Madison Convention Center Ballroom
Saturday, July 25: 7:00 p.m. - midnight |