Markov Logic

Pedro Domingos is Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. His research interests are in artificial intelligence, machine learning and data mining. He received a PhD in Information and Computer Science from the University of California at Irvine, and is the author or co-author of over 150 technical publications. He is a member of the editorial board of the Machine Learning journal, co-founder of the International Machine Learning Society, and past associate editor of JAIR. He was program co-chair of KDD-2003 and SRL-2009, and has served on numerous program committees. He has received several awards, including a Sloan Fellowship, an NSF CAREER Award, a Fulbright Scholarship, an IBM Faculty Award, and best paper awards at KDD-98, KDD-99 and PKDD-2005. Daniel Lowd is a PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. His research covers a range of topics in statistical machine learning, including statistical relational representations, unifying learning and inference, and adversarial machine learning scenarios (e.g., spam filtering). He has received graduate research fellowships from the National Science Foundation and Microsoft Research.

• Introduction.- Markov Logic.- Inference.- Learning.- Extensions.- Applications.- Conclusion.