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Subject: New Article, Learning First-Order Definitions of ...
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JAIR is pleased to announce the publication of the following article:

Quinlan, J.R. (1996)
  "Learning First-Order Definitions of Functions", 
   Volume 5, pages 139-161.

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   Abstract: First-order learning involves finding a clause-form
   definition of a relation from examples of the relation and relevant
   background information.  In this paper, a particular first-order
   learning system is modified to customize it for finding definitions of
   functional relations.  This restriction leads to faster learning times
   and, in some cases, to definitions that have higher predictive
   accuracy.  Other first-order learning systems might benefit from
   similar specialization.

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