<div dir="ltr">(with apologies if you receive this more than once)<br>--------------------------------------------------------------------<br><div><br>12th International Conference on Grammatical Inference<br><br> <span class="">ICGI</span> 2014<br>
<br> September 17-19, 2014, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.<br><br><a href="http://www.iip.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/icgi2014/" target="_blank">http://www.iip.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/icgi2014/</a><br><br> FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS<br>
<br>-------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>SCOPE, LOCATION AND PROCEEDINGS<br>===============================<br><br><span class="">ICGI</span> 2014 is the 12th edition of the International Conference on<br>
Grammatical Inference, held every two years. <br><br>The conference will be held in Kyoto University; in Kyoto, Japan, from September 17-19, 2014.<br>Kyoto is one of the most beautiful and historic cities in the world. <br>
<br>The conference proceedings will be published with the JMLR Workshop<br>and Conference Proceedings series. (<a href="http://jmlr.org/proceedings/" target="_blank">http://jmlr.org/proceedings/</a>)<br><br><br>IMPORTANT DATES<br>
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<br>15 May 2014: Paper submission deadline<br>1 July 2014: Notification of acceptance<br>1 August 2014: Camera ready copy<br>17-19 September 2014: Conference <br><br>AREAS OF INTEREST<br>=================<br><br>The conference is on grammatical inference: the field of machine learning <br>
applied to discrete combinatorial structures such as strings, trees or graphs. <br>The conference seeks to provide a forum for presentation and<br>discussion of original research papers on all aspects of<br>grammatical inference including, but not limited to:<br>
<br> * Theoretical aspects of grammatical inference: learning<br>paradigms, learnability results, complexity of learning.<br><br> * Efficient learning algorithms for language classes inside and<br>outside the Chomsky hierarchy. Learning tree and graph grammars.<br>
Learning distributions over strings, trees or graphs.<br><br> * Grammatical inference from strings or trees paired with semantics representations,<br>or learning by situated agents and robots.<br><br> * Theoretical and experimental analysis of different approaches to<br>
grammar induction, including artificial neural networks, statistical<br>methods, symbolic methods, information-theoretic approaches,<br>minimum description length, complexity-theoretic approaches,<br>heuristic methods, etc.<br>
<br> * Novel approaches to grammatical inference: Induction by DNA<br>computing or quantum computing, evolutionary approaches, new<br>representation spaces, etc.<br><br> * Successful applications of grammatical inference to tasks in<br>
natural language processing such as unsupervised parsing, bioinformatics, <br>web interface design, robot navigation,<br>machine translation, pattern recognition, language acquisition, software engineering,<br>computational linguistics, spam and malware detection, cognitive<br>
psychology, etc.<br><br>Historically the roots of grammatical inference have been in the <br>modelling of first language acquisition by human infants: we especially <br>invite submissions that address this theme, directly or indirectly. <br>
<br>AUTHOR GUIDELINES<br>=================<br><br>We invite two types of papers:<br><br>- Formal and/or technical papers describe original solutions<br>(theoretical, methodological or conceptual) in the field of<br>grammatical inference.<br>
A technical paper should clearly describe the situation or problem<br>tackled, the relevant state of the art, the position or solution<br>suggested and the benefits of the contribution.<br><br>- Exploratory papers can describe completely new research<br>
positions or approaches. Open problems may be suggested,<br>current limits can be discussed.<br>In all cases rigour in presentation will be required. Such papers<br>must describe precisely the situation, problem, challenge<br>
addressed and demonstrate how current methods, tools, ways of<br>reasoning, may be inadequate. The authors must rigorously present<br>their approach and demonstrate its pertinence and correctness to<br>addressing the identified situation.<br>
<br>There are no restrictions on the domain of application as long as<br>the paper provides sufficient background information.<br><br>The conference proceedings will be published with The JMLR Workshop<br>and Conference Proceedings series.<br>
<br>CONFERENCE FORMAT<br>=================<br><br>The conference will include plenary and invited talks, possibly<br>software demonstrations and poster presentations of accepted<br>papers.<br><br><br><br>SUBMISSION OF PAPERS<br>
====================<br><br>Prospective authors are invited to submit a draft paper which<br>represents original and previously unpublished work.<br>Simultaneous submission to other conferences with published<br>proceedings is not allowed.<br>
<br>Submissions should conform to the guidelines that will be found on<br>the conference webpage.<br><br>All papers should be submitted electronically by May 15, 2014;<br>the submission URL is:<br><br><a href="https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=icgi2014" target="_blank">https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=icgi2014</a><br>
<br><br>Papers must be submitted in pdf format. The use of LaTeX is<br>strongly encouraged. The users of Word may download a<br>conversion tool to produce a PDF file for submission.<br><br>The total length of the paper should not exceed 12 pages on A4 or<br>
letter-size paper, and should be in single-column format using at<br>least 1 inch margins and 11-point font.<br><br>Each paper should contain title, authors and affiliation, mailing <br>address, a brief abstract describing the work and at least three <br>
keywords which can describe the contents of the work. <br><br>BEST STUDENT PAPER PRIZE<br>========================<br><br>The best paper with a student as the lead and presenting author will<br>be awarded a free registration prize. Eligible papers should be<br>
noted in the submission and accompanied by a brief letter of<br>support from the research advisor. It should be included in the<br>paper submission at the front page. Recipient of the prize will be<br>notified at the time of acceptance and the student will receive a<br>
winner diploma during the conference.<br><br>Please do not hesitate to contact us at <a href="mailto:icgi2014@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">icgi2014@googlegroups.com</a> <br>or directly if you have questions.<br><br>
We are looking forward to your submissions.<br>
<br>The <span class="">ICGI</span> 2014 chairs<br><br>Alexander Clark (King's College, London)<br>Makoto Kanazawa (National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo)<br>Ryo Yoshinaka (Kyoto University)<br><br>Program Committee<br>
<br>Pieter Adriaans (Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands)<br>
Borja de Balle Pigem, (McGill University, Canada)<br>Robert Berwick (MIT, USA)<br>Phil Blunsom (University of Oxford, UK)<br>Alexander Clark (King's College, London, United Kingdom)<br>François Coste (INRIA Rennes, France)<br>
François Denis (Aix-Marseille University, France)<br>Rémi Eyraud (Aix-Marseille University, France)<br>Colin de la Higuera (Universite de Nantes - LINA, France)<br>Henning Fernau (Universitat Trier, Germany)<br>Jeffrey Heinz (University of Delaware, USA)<br>
Falk Howar (Carnegie-Mellon University, USA)<br>Makoto Kanazawa (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)<br>Tim Oates (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA)<br>José Oncina Carratala (Universidad de Alicante, Spain)<br>
José M. Sempere (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)<br>Etsuji Tomita (University of Electro-Communications, Japan)<br>Sicco Verwer (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)<br>Akihiro Yamamoto (Kyoto University, Japan)<br>
Ryo Yoshinaka (Kyoto University, Japan)<br>Menno van Zaanen (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)<br>Thomas Zeugmann (Hokkaido University, Japan)</div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Alex Clark
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