Inverse Entailment in Nonmonotonic Logic Programs

Chiaki Sakama

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming (ILP-2000), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1866, Springer-Verlag, pages 209-224, 2000.

Abstract

Inverse entailment (IE) is known as a technique for finding inductive hypotheses in Horn theories. When a background theory is nonmonotonic, however, IE is not applicable in its present form. The purpose of this paper is extending the IE technique to nonmonotonic inductive logic programming (ILP). To this end, we first establish a new entailment theorem in normal logic programs, then introduce the notion of contrapositive programs. Finally, a theory of IE in nonmonotonic ILP is constructed.

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