Using Multiple Clause Constructors in Inductive Logic Programming for Semantic Parsing

Abstract. In this paper, we explored a learning approach which com-bines dierent learning methods in inductive logic programming (ILP) to allow a learner to produce more expressive hypotheses than that of each individual learner. Such a learning approach may be useful when the performance of the task depends on solving a large amount of classi-cation problems and each has its own characteristics which may or may not t a particular learning method. The task of semantic parser acqui-sition in two dierent domains was attempted and preliminary results demonstrated that such an approach is promising.