[Corpora-List] ICGI 2008: First CFP

[Alex Clark]

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                           CALL FOR PAPERS
                              ICGI 2008
          9th International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference
                 http://icgi08.irisa.fr
                       icgi08 at irisa.fr
               St Malo, Brittany, France.

September 22(Monday) - 24(Wednesday), 2008


#SCOPE#

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.

#AREAS OF INTEREST#

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. 


# LOCATION #
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.

# CONFERENCE FORMAT #
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.

# SUBMISSION OF PAPERS #
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 format.

 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).

# DEADLINES #
Submission of manuscripts: May 20, 2008
Notification of acceptance: June 20, 2008
Final version of manuscript: July 14, 2008

# CONFERENCE CHAIR #
Francois Coste, Symbiose, INRIA/IRISA, France

# PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRs #
Alexander Clark, Royal Holloway, University of London
Laurent Miclet, Universite de Rennes, France.

# PROGRAMME COMMITTEE #

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

# ORGANISING COMMITTEE #

Local arrangements

Elisabet Lebret, IRISA, France
Marie-Noelle Georgeault, IRISA, France



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Alexander Clark     alexc at cs.rhul.ac.uk
http://www.cs.rhul.ac.uk/home/alexc/
Lecturer, Department of Computer Science,
Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX
Direct 01784 443430 Department 01784 434455 Fax 01784 439786

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