Corpora: CFP: The 6th International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference

[Menno van Zaanen]

ICGI-2002Call for Papers
The 6th International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference will be held
in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
September 11-13th, 2002
http://www.illc.uva.nl/ICGI-2002/

SCOPE

ICGI-2002 is the sixth in a series of successful biennial
international conferences on 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.

This colloquium aims at bringing together researchers in these
fields. Previous editions of this meeting were held in Essex, U.K.;
Alicante, Spain; Montpellier, France; Ames, Iowa, USA; and Lisbon,
Portugal.


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 (e.g., simple
distributions), impossibility 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 subsets of the above under
additional syntactic constraints, tree and graph grammars, picture
grammars, multi-dimensional 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
ated or potential applications of
grammar induction in natural language acquisition, computational
biology, structural pattern recognition, information retrieval, text
processing, adaptive intelligent agents, systems modeling and control,
and other domains.

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Pieter Adriaans, Perot Systems Corporation/University of Amsterdam,
Netherlands (Chair)
Dana Angluin, Yale University, USA
Dick de Jongh, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands
Jerry Feldman, ICSI, Berkeley, USA
Colin de la Higuera, EURISE, Univ. de St. Etienne, France
Vasant Honavar, Iowa State University, USA
Laurent Miclet, ENSSAT, Lannion, France
G. Nagaraja, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India
Arlindo Oliveira, Lisbon Technical University, Portugal
Jose Oncina Carratala, Universidade de Alicante, Spain
Rajesh Parekh, Blue Martini, USA
Yasubumi Sakakibara, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
Enrique Vidal, U. Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Takashi Yokomori, Waseda University, Japan
Menno van Zaanen, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands
Thomas Zeugmann, University at Lubeck, Germany


CONFERENCE FORMAT

The conference will include oral and possibly poster presentations of
accepted papers, a small number of tutorials and invited talks. All
accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings. The
proceedings of ICGI-2002 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 in English
with the following format. The cover page should specify:

 - submission to ICGI-2002
 - 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 be formatted according to A4
or 8.5"x11", and the length should not exceed 12 pages excluding the
cover page. The technical expositions 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://www.illc.uva.nl/ICGI-2002/

DEADLINES

Submission of manuscripts: April 5, 2002
Notification of acceptance: May 27th, 2002
Final version of manuscript: June 28th, 2002

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Pieter Adriaans (Chair)
Henning Fernau (Co-chair)
Menno van Zaanen (Local organization)
Marjan Veldhuisen (Secretariat)

SPONSORS:

ILLC, Institute for Language Logic and Computation
OZSL, Dutch Research School in Logic

Take a look at: http://www.illc.uva.nl/ICGI-2002/

See you in Amsterdam in September 2002!!


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| Menno van Zaanen                    | "Let him not vow to walk in the dark,
| mvzaanen at science.uva.nl             |  who has not seen the nightfall."
| http://www.science.uva.nl/~mvzaanen |                           -Elrond