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                                  ICGI-2004
                               CALL FOR PAPERS
             7th International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference
                   “emphasizing on Innovative Applications”

                       NCSR “Demokritos”, Athens, Greece
                            October 11 – 13, 2004
                     http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/icgi04/
                           icgi04 at iit.demokritos.gr

SCOPE
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ICGI-2004 is the seventh in a series of successful biennial international
conferences in the area of grammatical inference. The emphasis of this year’s
conference is on innovative applications 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.

AREAS OF INTEREST
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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:
• 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.
Particular emphasis will be given to papers presenting work on innovative
applications of grammar induction in natural language acquisition,
computational biology, Web mining, structural pattern recognition,
information retrieval, text processing, adaptive intelligent agents, systems
modelling and control, and other domains.

LOCATION AND ORGANISATION
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ICGI-2004 will be held in Athens. Athens (http://www.cityofathens.gr/) the
capital of Greece, is a city of long and rich history. Being the birthplace
of democracy and modern Olympic Games (http://www.athens2004.gr/), it has a
lot to offer in terms of history, culture and social life. Greece’s
geographical location makes Athens via its International Airport “Eleftherios
Venizelos” (http://www.aia.gr/) easily accessible for visitors from all
corners of the world. Athens International Airport is located about 35
minutes away from Athens, accessible by cab or public transportation.

The conference will be located in the National Centre for Scientific Research
(NCSR) “Demokritos” (http://www.demokritos.gr/), Athens, Greece. NCSR
"Demokritos" is the largest self-governing research organisation, under the
supervision of the Ministry of Development of the Greek Government. It is a
multidisciplinary centre, comprising 8 Institutes that cover a wide area of
science, ranging from informatics microelectronics to biology and nuclear
technology. The Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications
(http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/) has the main responsibility for the
organisation of the conference.

ICGI-2004 is organised under the auspices of ICGI, the International
Committee on Grammatical Inference (http://eurise.univ-st-etienne.fr/gi/),
and EETN, the Hellenic Association for Artificial Intelligence
(http://ww.eetn.gr/).

CONFERENCE FORMAT
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The conference will include plenary and invited talks, software demonstrations
and possibly poster presentations of accepted papers and tutorials. A special
session will be devoted to the results of a competition on “Learning Context
Free Grammars from Positive examples”. All plenary and invited papers will
appear in the conference proceedings. The proceedings of ICGI-2004 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
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Prospective authors are invited to submit a draft paper in English with the
following format. The cover page should specify: submission to ICGI-2004,
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.iit.demokritos.gr/icgi04. The submission process is supported by
Cyberchair (http://www.cyberchair.org/).

DEADLINES
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Submission of manuscripts: May 22, 2004
Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2004
Final version of manuscript: July 15, 2004

CONFERENCE CHAIR
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Georgios Paliouras, NCSR “Demokritos”, Greece

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CO-CHAIR
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Yasubumi Sakakibara, Keio University, Japan

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
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Pieter Adriaans, Perot Systems Corporation/University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Dana Angluin, Yale University, USA
Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp, Netherlands
Pierre Dupont, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Dominique Estival, Syrinx Speech Systems/ University of Melbourne, Australia
Henning Fernau, University of Newcastle, Australia
Lee Giles, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Colin de la Higuera, EURISE, Univ. de St. Etienne, France
Vasant	Honavar, Iowa State University, USA
Makoto Kanazawa, University of Tokio, Japan
Kevin Lang, Overture Research, USA
Laurent Miclet	, ENSSAT, Lannion, France
Gopalakrishnaswamy Nagaraja, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India
Jacques Nicolas, IRISA, France
Tim Oates, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
Arlindo	Oliveira, Lisbon Technical University, Portugal
Jose Oncina Carratala, Universidade de Alicante, Spain
Rajesh Parekh, Blue Martini, USA
Lenny Pitt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Arun Sharma, University of New South Wales, Australia
Giora Slutzki, Iowa State University, USA
Etsuji Tomita, University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Esko Ukkonen, University of Helsinki, Finland
Menno van Zaanen, Tilburg University, Netherlands
Enrique Vidal, Universidade Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Takashi Yokomori, Waseda University, Japan
Thomas Zeugmann, University at Lubeck, Germany

COMPETITION CHAIRS
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Bradford Starkie, Telstra Research Laboratories, Australia
Menno van Zaanen, Tilburg University, Netherlands

ORGANISING COMMITTEE
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Colin de la Higuera, EURISE, Univ. de St. Etienne, France
Georgios Petasis, Inst. of Informatics and Telecommunications, NCSR “Demokritos”, Greece
Georgios Sigletos, Inst. of Informatics and Telecommunications, NCSR “Demokritos”, Greece


SECRETARIAT
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Evangelia Alexopoulou
Software and Knowledge Engineering Laboratory,
Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications,
National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos”,
P.O. BOX 60228, Ag. Paraskevi 15310, Athens, Greece
Phone: +30 210 6503179
Fax:     +30 210 6532175
E-mail: icgi04 at iit.demokritos.gr


                      See you in Athens in October 2004!!
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