On applying inductive logic programming to the Web

The Web has become an extremely large source of information and also a platform of various e-service including e-business, e-science, e-learning, e-government, etc. How to develop the new technology to discover useful knowledge from Web-based data is one of the challenges in the area of Web Intelligence. Inductive logic programming is the field defined as the intersection of machine learning and logic programming. Two strengths of inductive logic programming, namely, the expressive representation formalism and the use of background knowledge make it suitable to deal with Web-based data and then find useful rules for various applications for Web intelligence. This paper provides an overview on the recent various applications of inductive logic programming for Web intelligence.