Using Background Knowledge to Build Multistrategy Learners

Machine Learning

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 241-257

  Sammut, Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Background knowledge; Inductive logic programming; Knowledge representation; Multistrategy learning

Indexed keywords

INDUCTIVE LOGIC PROGRAMMING; MULTISTRATEGY LEARNING;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LOGIC PROGRAMMING;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031166126     PISSN: 08856125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007313824964     Document Type: Article

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