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OMPHALOS CONTEXT-FREE LANGUAGE LEARNING COMPETITION
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http://www.irisa.fr/Omphalos/
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Intro
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Omphalos is the first context-free language learning competition that
forms part of ICGI-2004 (See http://iit.demokritos.gr/icgi04/). The
task is to infer a model of a context-free language from unstructured
examples (both positive and negative) and to use that model to label a
set of test sentences as being either in or out of the language.


The Competition Task
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We have generated some context-free grammars. For each grammar we have
labelled a set of sentences indicating whether or not those sentences
can be generated from that grammar. The goal of the competition is to
infer a model of each language (such as a grammar) using the training
data. You then need to tag new sentences, indicating whether the
sentences are in the language or not.


Important Dates
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February 15th 2004        Competition begins
October   1st 2004        Competition closes
October  11th 2004        Competition winner announced
October  11th-13th 2004   Omphalos session at ICGI-2004


More Information
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For more information, check the website:
http://www.irisa.fr/Omphalos/
or contact the organizers at:
omphalos at irisa.fr


Omphalos is being organized and administered by:
Brad Starkie, François Coste, and Menno van Zaanen

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