CALL FOR PAPERS
9th International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference
http://icgi08.irisa.fr
icgi08@irisa.fr
St Malo, Brittany, France.
September 22(Monday) - 24(Wednesday), 2008
ICGI-2008 is the ninth in a series of successful biennial international conferences in the area of grammatical inference.
Grammatical inference has been extensively addressed by researchers in information theory, automata theory, language acquisition, computational linguistics, machine learning, pattern recognition, computational learning theory and neural networks.
The conference will take place in the city of St Malo, a beautiful walled port city, on the Brittany coast of France, near Le Mont St Michel, with easy TGV access.
The conference seeks to provide a forum for presentation and discussion of original research papers on all aspects of grammatical inference including, but not limited to:
* Different models of grammar induction: e.g., learning from examples, learning using examples and queries, incremental versus non-incremental learning, distribution-free models of learning, learning under various distributional assumptions, learnability results, complexity results, characterizations of representational and search biases of grammar induction algorithms.
* Algorithms for induction of different classes of languages and automata: e.g., regular, context-free, and context-sensitive languages, interesting subclasses of the above under additional syntactic constraints, tree and graph grammars, picture grammars, multidimensional grammars, attributed grammars, parameterized models, etc.
* Theoretical and experimental analysis of different approaches to grammar induction including artificial neural networks, statistical methods, symbolic methods, information-theoretic approaches, minimum description length, complexity-theoretic approaches, heuristic methods, etc.
* Broader perspectives on grammar induction, e.g. acquisition of grammar in conjunction with language semantics, semantic constraints on grammars, language acquisition by situated agents and robots, acquisition of language constructs that describe objects and events in space and time, developmental and evolutionary constraints on language acquisition, statistical modelling of natural language, etc.
Historically the roots of grammatical inference have been in the modelling of first language acquisition by human infants: we especially invite submissions that address this theme, directly or indirectly.
ICGI-2008 will be held in St Malo, France.
The conference will take place in the Palais du Grand Large, ideally located in front of the sea and near the old town.
The conference will include plenary and invited talks, software demonstrations and possibly poster presentations of accepted papers and tutorials. All plenary and invited papers will appear in the conference proceedings.
The proceedings of ICGI-2008 will be published by Springer-Verlag as a volume in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, a subseries of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.
We intend to arrange a special issue of a suitable journal in which selected papers will appear.
Prospective authors are invited
to submit a draft paper which represents original and previously
unpublished work. Simultaneous submission to other conferences with
published proceedings is not allowed. The paper should be written in
English with the following LNAI/LNCS format (downloadable instruction files, notes on scheduling, dowloadable LaTeX and Word files, templates, sample file, etc. are available at Springer's LNCS/LNAI Webpage).
The cover page should specify: submission to ICGI-2008, title, authors and affiliation, mailing address, phone, fax, and e-mail address of the contact author, a brief abstract describing the work, at least three keywords which can specify typically the contents of the work. Postscript versions of the papers should not exceed 12 single spaced pages (excluding the cover page) on A4 or letter-size paper, and should be in single-column format using at least 1 inch margins and at least 11-point font. Submissions deviating significantly from these guidelines will be rejected without review.
The technical exposition should be directed to a specialist and should include an introduction understandable to a non specialist that describes the problem studied and the results achieved, focusing on the important ideas and their significance.
All paper submissions, review and notification of acceptance will be done
electronically through the conference's WWW pages (http://icgi08.irisa.fr).
Submission of manuscripts: May 20, 2008
Notification of acceptance: June 20, 2008
Final version of manuscript: July 14, 2008
Francois Coste, Symbiose, INRIA/IRISA, France
Alexander Clark, Royal Holloway, University of London
Laurent Miclet, Universite de Rennes, France.
Pieter Adriaans, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Dana Angluin, Yale University, USA
Jose Balcazar, Universitat Politechnica de Catalunya, Spain
Rens Bod, University of St Andrews, Scotland
Rafael Carrasco, University of Alicante, Spain
Christophe Costa Florencio, University of Louvain, Belgium
Francois Denis, University of Provence, Marseille France.
Pierre Dupont, University of Louvain, Belgium
Remi Eyraud, University of Provence, Marseille France.
Henning Fernau, University of Trier, Germany
Remi Gilleron, University of Lille, France
Colin de la Higuera, EURISE, Univ. de St. Etienne, France
Vasant Honavar, Iowa State University, USA
Makoto Kanazawa, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Satoshi Kobayashi, The University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Japan
Aryeh Kontorovich, Weizmann Institute, Israel
Tim Oates, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
Arlindo Oliveira, Lisbon Technical University, Portugal
Jose Oncina Carratala, Universidade de Alicante, Spain
Georgios Paliouras, Inst. of Informatics and Telecommunications, NCSR, Greece
Rajesh Parekh, Yahoo!, USA
Yasubumi Sakakibara, Keio University, Japan
Isabelle Tellier, University of Lille, France
Franck Thollard, University of St. Etienne, France
Etsuji Tomita, The University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Japan
Enrique Vidal, Universidade Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Chris Watkins, Royal Holloway, University of London
Ryo Yoshinaka, Hokkaido University, Japan
Menno van Zaanen, Macquarie University, Australia
Local arrangements
Elisabeth Lebret, IRISA, France
Marie-Noelle Georgeault, IRISA, France
