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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 (see google map) with easy TGV access.
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The conference will be hosted at the Palais du Grand Large, ideally located in front of the sea and near the old town.
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
Sponsors
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