[comp.ai] 4/24/91 TACART: Pazzani on Correcting Rules from Experience

campbell@aero.org (Andrew Campbell) (04/11/91)

Los Angeles (LA) Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Technical Activity Committee on Artificial Intelligence (TACART)

             TACART

TOPIC:       Correcting Rule-Base Errors from Experience
SPEAKER:     Prof. Michael Pazzani, UCI ICS Dept.
DATE:        Wednesday, 24 April, 1991.
             Note that this is the FOURTH Wednesday of the month.
TIME:        The talk will begin promptly at 7:30 p.m.
             There may be a few minutes of TACART business beforehand.
ABSTRACT:    Techniques proposed for combining inductive and
             explanation-based learning methods can also be used to 
             detect errors in rule-based expert systems, to isolate the 
             blame to a small number of rules, and to suggest revised rules.
             FOCL - an extension of Quinlan's FOIL program - is a learning
             system that can take advantage of domain knowledge (such as a
             knowledge base) to learn classification rules, even if the
             domain knowledge is incomplete and incorrect. A prototype
             knowledge acquisition tool, KR-FOCL, can use FOCL traces to
             suggest revisions to the knowledge base.
BIOGRAPHY:   Michael Pazzani is an Assistant Professor of Information and
             Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine.  
             He is the author of the book "Learning Causal Relationships" 
             and the accompanying machine learning software (OCCAM-lite) 
             published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ.  
             He received his PhD in 1988 from UCLA and is interested in  
             human and machine learning.
PLACE:       The Conference Room, in the Basement of the Santa Monica
             Public Library, located at the corner of 6th St. and
             Santa Monica, in Santa Monica (4th/5th St. Exit from I-10).
DINNER:      No dinner is planned. No social activities are planned.
CONTACT:     L. Andrew Campbell (213) 336-8642 (days)
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