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From: Guido C. <gce...@gm...> - 2001-11-20 07:11:43
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Guido Cervone wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > sorry for entering the circuite late. Last week was though and I did not > have time to write anything. Colin, I am going to write here my > project description that I think I sent you already. > > A little of introduction: > > I work in the Machine Learning and Inference Laboratory at the George > Mason University in Fairfax, VA, USA. We are developing what we call an > 'inductive database', which in brief is a system that allows creating > knowlege using simple SQL-like commands. The knowledge can be expressed > as attributional rules that describe specific patterns, as a conceptual > association graph, as a tree, etc. > > The idea is to extend the SQL language with few new commands that will > invoke specific knowlege generation operators. We tentatively called > this extension of the SQL language KQL, which stands for Knowledge Query > Language. However this is not finalized, and we would like some > suggestions. For example, the command to extract rules looks like the > following: > > create rules from <Event_Table> for <Decision_Attribute> using > <Parameters_Table> > > Inductive databses will allow people with little or no experience in > Machine Learning, Statistics, etc to run sophisticated algorithms and > possibly discover new knowledge. > > To implement these ideas we considered writing our own SQL client, and > we realizes this is a too big effort. We started looking at several > alternatives for an open-source SQL client we could extend, and we > finally landed in the Squirrel world! I think it would be nice if such > capabilities could be built into Squirrel, maybe using a plugin, that > Colin likes so much! :) > > I have modified the source code for 1.0 to accomodate some of our > needs. The first feature that I believe is very interesting is allowing > Squirrel to import a comma separated file. This very useful to enter > data that is stored locally. > Next I have added an extra parser for KQL commands. It checks the sql > statement, and if it finds something like create rules, then it invokes > the correct knowledge generation operator. > > > Thanks > > Guido |
