Using Multiple Clause Constructors in Inductive Logic Programming for Semantic Parsing

In this paper, we explored a learning approach which combines different 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 classification problems and each has its own characteristics which may or may not fit a particular learning method. The task of semantic parser acquisition in two different domains was attempted and preliminary results demonstrated that such an approach is promising.