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1 Introduction

Welcome to the Alchemy developer's manual. This is designed to help developers improve and extend Markov logic algorithms in Alchemy. We have strived to make Alchemy as modular as possible in order to encourage further development of the code. This effort is ongoing and it should be noted that Alchemy is still in a Beta stage.

This manual, along with the API provided in the package and on the website, should enable other developers to utilize the Alchemy classes in their own applications as well as allow them to extend Alchemy itself.

The development of Alchemy was partly funded by DARPA grant FA8750-05-2-0283 (managed by AFRL), DARPA contract NBCH-D030010 (subcontracts 02-000225 and 55-000793), NSF grant IIS-0534881, ONR grants N00014-02-1-0408 and N00014-05-1-0313, a Sloan Research Fellowship, and an NSF CAREER Award (both of these to Pedro Domingos). The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of DARPA, NSF, ONR, or the United States Government.



Marc Sumner 2007-01-16