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Call for Software Demonstrations

ICGI-2002

6th International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference

Amsterdam, The Netherlands
September 23-25th, 2002

CALL

The ICGI 2002 Program Committee invites proposals for software
demonstrations at the ICGI 2002. We encourage the exhibition of
early (research) prototypes, but interesting mature systems may
also be demonstrated.

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.

LOCATION

ICGI-2002 will be held in Amsterdam. Amsterdam, the capital of
the Netherlands is a city with a rich history. With it historical
center and its canals it is also known as the Venice of the
North. It has a lot to offer both in terms of history, culture
and social life (www.amsterdam.nl/e_tourism/e_tourism.html).
Holland's geographical location makes Amsterdam via Schiphol
Airport easily accessible for travelers from all corners of the
world .

The conference will be located in the Institute for Language
Logic and Computation (ILLC: www.illc.uva.nl) at the Universiteit
van Amsterdam (www.uva.nl). The Universiteit van Amsterdam was
founded as the Athenaeum Illustre in 1632 and has developed into
one of the bigger general universities in Europe. The conference
is located in the center of Amsterdam, with easy access to
hotels, restaurants and touristic attractions.

Amsterdam is well served by air connections to many major
European and American cities. Schiphol Airport is located less
than 15 minutes away from Amsterdam, accessible by cab or public
transportation.

AREAS OF INTEREST

The conference seeks to provide a forum for presentation and
discussion of original research 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
  approaches, minimum description length, and
  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 modeling of natural language, etc.
* Demonstrated 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.

FORMAT

Demo proposals should consist of the following parts:

* An abstract in English of the technical content to be
  demonstrated, not to exceed three pages, including:
  * title,
  * authors and affiliation,
  * full contact information of the contact author,
  * references and acknowledgments.
* The abstract will be added to the proceedings of ICGI-2002,
  which will be published by Springer-Verlag as a volume in their
  Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series, a subserie of
  the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.
* Please state what you can bring yourself and what you
  absolutely must have provided. We will do our best to provide
  equipment and resources *but nothing can be guaranteed at this
  point beyond space and power*. Please contact the demo committee
  for any specific questions. You are encouraged to bring as much
  of your own equipment as possible!

PROCEDURE

Proposals should be submitted as soon as possible, but before
1 July 2002 using the submission form which can be found on the ICGI
2002 homepage (http://www.illc.uva.nl/ICGI-2002/).

EVALUATION

Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of their relevance to
the field of grammar induction, innovation, scientific
contribution, presentation, and user friendliness, as well as
potential logistical constraints.

DEADLINES

Submission of software demo proposals:     1 July 2002
Notification of acceptance:                8 July 2002
Submission of revised proposals:          14 July 2002
Conference dates:                      23-25 September 2002

SOFTWARE DEMONSTRATION COMMITTEE

Pieter Adriaans
Institute for Language Logic and Communication (ILLC)
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Plantage Muidergracht 24
1018 TV AMSTERDAM
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 6 54234459
Fax: +31 20 525 5206
E-mail: pietera at science.uva.nl

Henning Fernau
University of Newcastle
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University Drive
Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia
Phone: +61 2 4921 6076
Fax: +61 2 4921 6929
fernau at cs.newcastle.edu.au
WWW: http://www.cs.newcastle.edu.au/~fernau

Menno van Zaanen (demo organiser)
Institute for Language Logic and Communication (ILLC)
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Plantage Muidergracht 24
1018 TV AMSTERDAM
The Netherlands
E-mail: mvzaanen at science.uva.nl
http://www.science.uva.nl/~mvzaanen

SPONSORS

ILLC, Institute for Language Logic and Computation
OZSL, Onderzoeks school voor logica
Contacts with additional sponsors are currently under way.

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                    | "The more it stays the same,
| mvzaanen at science.uva.nl             |  the less it changes."
| http://www.science.uva.nl/~mvzaanen |                           -Spinal Tap