Inductive Inference of First-Order Models from Numeric-Symbolic Data

Abstract

A factor common to statistical techniques of data analysis is the adopted representation formalism: A tabular (zeroth-order) model with almost exclusively numerical features . On the contrary, several studies on machine learning concern the induction of first-order models from symbolic data, but are inadequate for continuous data. In the paper, we face the problem of handling both numerical and symbolic data in first-order models. distinguishing the moment of model generation from examples (induction) from the moment of model recognition by means of a flexible. probabilistic subsumption test. We demonstrate the proposed solutions on a problem in document understanding where the objective is to induce the models of the logical structure of some real business letters.

Cite

Text

Esposito et al. "Inductive Inference of First-Order Models from Numeric-Symbolic Data." Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 1997.

Markdown

[Esposito et al. "Inductive Inference of First-Order Models from Numeric-Symbolic Data." Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 1997.](https://mlanthology.org/aistats/1997/esposito1997aistats-inductive/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{esposito1997aistats-inductive,
  title     = {{Inductive Inference of First-Order Models from Numeric-Symbolic Data}},
  author    = {Esposito, Floriana and Caggese, Sergio and Malerba, Donato and Semeraro, Giovanni},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics},
  year      = {1997},
  pages     = {173-182},
  volume    = {R1},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/aistats/1997/esposito1997aistats-inductive/}
}