Pazzani, M. (1992).   When Prior Knowledge Hinders Learning
 AAAI Workshop on Constraining learning with Prior Knowledge
 . San Jose, CA.
 	There are two general approaches to learning classification rules.  Empirical learning
 programs operate by finding regularities among a group of training examples.  Analytic learning
 systems use prior knowledge to explain the classification of examples and form a general
 description of the class of examples with the same explanation.  Many systems (e.g.,  Bergadano
 & Giordana,  1988; Cohen, in press-a; Flann & Dietterich, 1989; Hirsh, 1989; Lebowitz, 1986;
 Michalski & Ko, 1988; Ourston & Mooney, 1990; Pazzani, 1990; Shavlik & Towell, 1989;
 Wilkins & Tan, 1989) have combined empirical and analytic learning methods.  In such
 systems, the prior knowledge is used to bias the learner to prefer concepts that are consistent
 with the prior knowledge.