Structure learning of probabilistic logic programs by searching the clause space. Issue 2 (March 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: BELLODI, ELENA; RIGUZZI, FABRIZIO
• Is Part Of: Theory and practice of logic programming. Volume 15:Issue 2(2015)
• Page Start: 169
• Page End: 212
• Publication Date: 2015-03
• Subjects: Logic programming -- Periodicals; Artificial intelligence -- Computer programs -- Periodicals; Constraint programming (Computer science) -- Periodicals; 005.115
• DOI: 10.1017/S1471068413000689
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1471-0684

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="normal"> <title>Abstract</title> <p>Learning probabilistic logic programming languages is receiving an increasing attention, and systems are available for learning the parameters (PRISM, LeProbLog, LFI-ProbLog and EMBLEM) or both structure and parameters (SEM-CP-logic and SLIPCASE) of these languages. In this paper we present the algorithm SLIPCOVER for "Structure LearnIng of Probabilistic logic programs by searChing OVER the clause space." It performs a beam search in the space of probabilistic clauses and a greedy search in the space of theories using the log likelihood of the data as the guiding heuristics. To estimate the log likelihood, SLIPCOVER performs Expectation Maximization with EMBLEM. The algorithm has been tested on five real world datasets and compared with SLIPCASE, SEM-CP-logic, Aleph and two algorithms for learning Markov Logic Networks (Learning using Structural Motifs (LSM) and ALEPH++ExactL1). SLIPCOVER achieves higher areas under the precision-recall and receiver operating characteristic curves in most cases.</p> </abstract>