Inductive Logic Programming : 6th International Workshop ILP 96 Stockholm Sweden August 26 28 1996 Selected Papers This book constitutes the strictly refereed post workshop proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Inductive Logic Programming ILP 96 held in Stockholm Sweden in August 1996. The 21 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book in revised version. Also included is the invited contribution Inductive logic programming for natural language processing by Raymond J. Mooney. Among the topics covered are natural language learning drug design NMR and ECG analysis glaucoma diagnosis efficiency measures for implementations and database interaction program synthesis proof encoding and learning in the absence of negative data and least generalizations under implication ordering