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The knowledge-acquisition bottleneck greatly obstructs the development of knowledge-based systems. One popular approach to knowledge acquisition uses inductive concept learning to derive knowledge from examples stored in databases. However, existing learning systems cannot improve themselves automatically. This paper describes an adaptive knowledge-acquisition system that can learn first-order logical relations and improve itself automatically. The system is composed of an external interface, a biases base, a knowledge base of background knowledge, an example database, an empirical ILP learner, a meta-level learner, and a learning controller. In this system, the empirical ILP learner performs top-down search in the hypothesis space defined by the concept description language, the language bias, and the background knowledge. The search is directed by search biases which can be induced and refined by the meta-level learner based on generic genetic programming.
It has been demonstrated that the adaptive knowledge-acquisition system performs better than FOIL on inducing logical relations from perfect or noisy training examples. The result implies that the search bias evolved by evolutionary learning is better than that of FOIL which is designed by a top researcher in the field. Consequently, generic genetic programming is a promising technique for implementing a metalevel learning system. The result is very encouraging as it suggests that the process of natural selection and evolution can successfully evolve a high-performance learning system.
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