{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Bayesian Abductive Logic Programs: A Probabilistic Logic for Abductive Reasoning","authors":[{"name":"Sindhu V. Raghavan","slug":"sindhu-v-raghavan","given":"Sindhu V.","family":"Raghavan","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"In this proposal, we introduce Bayesian Abductive Logic Programs (BALP), a probabilistic logic that adapts Bayesian Logic Programs (BLPs) for abductive reasoning. Like BLPs, BALPs also combine first-order logic and Bayes nets. However, unlike BLPs, which use deduction to construct Bayes nets, BALPs employ logical abduction. As a result, BALPs are more suited for problems like plan/activity recognition that require abductive reasoning. In order to demonstrate the efficacy of BALPs, we apply it to two abductive reasoning tasks — plan recognition and natural language understanding.","doi":"10.5591/978-1-57735-516-8/IJCAI11-492","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2011/492","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2011/0492.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2011/492.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2011/bibtex/492","volume":{"slug":"2011","title":"Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 2011","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2011/","year":2011,"location":"Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain","dates":"16–22 July 2011","editors":"Toby Walsh","isbn":"978-1-57735-512-0; 978-1-57735-513-7; 978-1-57735-514-4; 978-1-57735-515-1; 978-1-57735-516-8","publisher":"AAAI Press/International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":null,"track":"","number":492,"pages":{"first":2840,"last":2840},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}