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FOIL: A Midterm Report

J. Ross Quinlan, R. Mike Cameron-Jones
ECML-PKDD 1993 pp. 3-20
doi:10.1007/3-540-56602-3_124 /ecmlpkdd/1993/quinlan1993ecml-foil/

Abstract

FOIL is a learning system that constructs Horn clause programs from examples. This paper summarises the development of FOIL from 1989 up to early 1993 and evaluates its effectiveness on a non-trivial sequence of learning tasks taken from a Prolog programming text. Although many of these tasks are handled reasonably well, the experiment highlights some weaknesses of the current implementation. Areas for further research are identified.

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Text

Quinlan and Cameron-Jones. "FOIL: A Midterm Report." European Conference on Machine Learning, 1993. doi:10.1007/3-540-56602-3_124

Markdown

[Quinlan and Cameron-Jones. "FOIL: A Midterm Report." European Conference on Machine Learning, 1993.](https://mlanthology.org/ecmlpkdd/1993/quinlan1993ecml-foil/) doi:10.1007/3-540-56602-3_124

BibTeX

@inproceedings{quinlan1993ecml-foil,
  title     = {{FOIL: A Midterm Report}},
  author    = {Quinlan, J. Ross and Cameron-Jones, R. Mike},
  booktitle = {European Conference on Machine Learning},
  year      = {1993},
  pages     = {3-20},
  doi       = {10.1007/3-540-56602-3_124},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/ecmlpkdd/1993/quinlan1993ecml-foil/}
}