Four suggestions and a rule concerning the application of ILP

  • Authors:
  • Ashwin Srinivasan

  • Affiliations:
  • Oxford Univ., Wolfson, UK

  • Venue:
  • Relational Data Mining
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Since the late 1980s there has been a sustained research effort directed at investigating the application of Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) to problems in biology and chemistry. This essay is a personal view of some interesting issues that have arisen during my involvement in this enterprise. Many of the concerns of the broader field of Knowledge Discovery in Databases manifest themselves during the application of ILP to analyse bio-chemical data. Addressing them in this microcosm has given me some directions on the wider application of ILP, and I present these here in the form of four suggestions and one rule. Readers are invited to consider them in the context of a hypothetical Recommended Codes and Practices for the application of ILP.