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Logical and Relational Learning

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  • © 2008

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Editors:
  1. Luc De Raedt

    1. Dept. of Computer Science, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200A, Belgium

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  • First textbook on multirelational data mining and inductive logic programming
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Cognitive Technologies (COGTECH)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XV
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  2. Introduction

    • Luc De Raedt
    Pages 1-15

  3. An Introduction to Logic

    • Luc De Raedt
    Pages 17-39

  4. An Introduction to Learning and Search

    • Luc De Raedt
    Pages 41-70

  5. Representations for Mining and Learning

    • Luc De Raedt
    Pages 71-114

  6. Generality and Logical Entailment

    • Luc De Raedt
    Pages 115-155

  7. The Upgrading Story

    • Luc De Raedt
    Pages 157-186

  8. Inducing Theories

    • Luc De Raedt
    Pages 187-221

  9. Probabilistic Logic Learning

    • Luc De Raedt
    Pages 223-288

  10. Kernels and Distances for Structured Data

    • Luc De Raedt
    Pages 289-324

  11. Computational Aspects of Logical and Relational Learning

    • Luc De Raedt
    Pages 325-343

  12. Lessons Learned

    • Luc De Raedt
    Pages 345-350

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 351-387
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About this book

Iusethetermlogicalandrelationallearning torefertothesub?eldofarti?cial intelligence,machinelearninganddataminingthatisconcernedwithlearning in expressive logical or relational representations. It is the union of inductive logic programming, (statistical) relational learning and multi-relational data mining, which all have contributed techniques for learning from data in re- tional form. Even though some early contributions to logical and relational learning are about forty years old now, it was only with the advent of - ductive logic programming in the early 1990s that the ?eld became popular. Whereas initial work was often concerned with logical (or logic programming) issues,thefocushasrapidlychangedtothediscoveryofnewandinterpretable knowledge from structured data, often in the form of rules, and soon imp- tant successes in applications in domains such as bio- and chemo-informatics and computational linguistics were realized. Today, the challenges and opp- tunities of dealing with structured data and knowledge have been taken up by the arti?cial intelligence community at large and form the motivation for a lot of ongoing research. Indeed, graph, network and multi-relational data mining are now popular themes in data mining, and statistical relational learning is receiving a lot of attention in the machine learning and uncertainty in art- cial intelligence communities. In addition, the range of tasks for which logical and relational techniques have been developed now covers almost all machine learning and data mining tasks.

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"This book is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in exploiting the power of logical representations to learn from highly structured data. The book offers a systematic and innovative view of this important and rapidly developing area, combining technical depth and breadth of coverage. In Bristol, we use De Raedt's book as textbook for MSc students and as a reference for PhD students and researchers." (Peter A. Flach, University of Bristol)

"This book provides comprehensive coverage of logical and relational learning, with an overview of inductive logic programming, multi-relational data mining, and statistical relational learning. … The book is replete with examples, exercises, and case studies. The case studies use popular logical and relational systems and applications. The ample use of illustrations, tables, and bullet lists makes the book more readable and understandable. … very useful to students, researchers, and practitioners in the fields of machine learning, automated knowledge discovery, data mining, and related fields." (Alexis Leon, ACM Computing Reviews, July, 2009)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dept. of Computer Science, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200A, Belgium

    Luc De Raedt

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