Machine Learning Applications in Anthropology: Automated Discovery over Kinship Structures

Computers and the Humanities

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 401-406

  Cunningham, Sally Jo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

FOIL; Induction; Inductive logic programming; Machine learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 17144430295     PISSN: 00104817     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00057936     Document Type: Article

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