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Re:What is the difference between deep learning and usual ma... by YeGoblynQueenne on Sunday June 05, 2016 @01:01PM (#11841871)
If you're looking for symbolic approaches within machine learning, Luc De Raedt's textbook has the works:

http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783540200406

Lise Getoor from MIT is also doing a lot of work with statistical relational learning in particular, which is kind of a cross between GOFAI (the "relational" bit) and nouveau AI (the "statistical" part):

http://www.cs.umd.edu/srl-book/

In the UK I know of Kristian Kersting who does statistical relational learning research, at Dortmund:

http://www-ai.cs.uni-dortmund.de/PERSONAL/kersting.html

I think this is not exactly what you were asking for but I think you might find it interesting, particularly Inductive Logic Programming (of which there's oodles in De Raedt's book).

Personally, I started an MSc in AI because I was interested in all the symbolic stuff, and I was a bit disappointed to find there were almost none of that left in the curriculum (at my school anyway, the University of Sussex). I guess I kind of see the point though- knowledge engineering is pretty hard and costly and learning from data is very attractive. I really don't like the idea of doing it all with statistical black-boxes, though. So relational learning is a kind of halfway house for me, where I can still use mathematical logic principles and not have to eat the statisticians' dust, so to speak. For me relational learning is the spiritual successor of GOFAI that I was looking for, so I think you may find something of interest in the links above.

Edit: there's also the probabilistic logic programming community, forgot about them; here:

https://dtai.cs.kuleuven.be/problog/

That's from the University of Leuven, where De Raedt is from. The name says it all: Horn clauses with probabilistic weighting. So that's not machine learning (or any kind of learning, it's just what it says on the tin). You will find many more here:

http://probabilistic-programming.org/wiki/Home

Although that's not all _logic_ programming (but there's quite a bit of it).

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