Learning Range Restricted Horn Expressions

  • Authors:
  • Roni Khardon

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • EuroCOLT '99 Proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Computational Learning Theory
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

We study the learnability of first order Horn expressions from equivalence and membership queries. We show that the class of range restricted Horn expressions, where every term in the consequent of every clause appears also in the antecedent of the clause, is learnable. The result holds both for the model where interpretations are examples (learning from interpretations) and the model where clauses are examples (learning from entailment). The paper utilises a previous result on learning function free Horn expressions. This is done by using techniques for flattening and unflattening of examples and clauses, and a procedure for model finding for range restricted expressions. This procedure can also be used to solve the implication problem for this class.