Learning semantic grammars with constructive inductive logic programming

  • Authors:
  • John M. Zelle;Raymond J. Mooney

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX;Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX

  • Venue:
  • AAAI'93 Proceedings of the eleventh national conference on Artificial intelligence
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

Automating the construction of semantic grammars is a difficult and interesting problem for machine learning. This paper shows how the semantic-grammar acquisition problem can be viewed as the learning of search-control heuristics in a logic program. Appropriate control rules are learned using a new first-order induction algorithm that automatically invents useful syntactic and semantic categories. Empirical results show that the learned parsers generalize well to novel sentences and out-perform previous approaches based on connectionist techniques.