[Corpora-List] ICGI 2014: Call for participation

[Alexander Clark]

Call for Participation: 12th International Conference on Grammatical
Inference (ICGI 2014)


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12th International Conference on Grammatical Inference

                            ICGI 2014

      September 17-19, 2014, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.

http://www.iip.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/icgi2014/

                     CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

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SCOPE, LOCATION AND PROCEEDINGS
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ICGI 2014 is the 12th edition of the International Conference on
Grammatical Inference, held every two years.

The conference will be held in Kyoto University; in Kyoto, Japan, from
September 17-19, 2014.
Kyoto is one of the most beautiful and historic cities in the world.

The conference proceedings will be published with the JMLR Workshop
and Conference Proceedings series. (http://jmlr.org/proceedings/)


IMPORTANT DATES
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31 July 2014: Early bird registration due
17-19 September 2014: Conference

AREAS OF INTEREST
=================

The conference is on grammatical inference: the field of machine learning
applied to discrete combinatorial structures such as strings, trees or
graphs.
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:

  * Theoretical aspects of grammatical inference: learning
paradigms, learnability results, complexity of learning.

  * Efficient learning algorithms for language classes inside and
outside the Chomsky hierarchy. Learning tree and graph grammars.
Learning distributions over strings, trees or graphs.

  * Grammatical inference from strings or trees paired with semantics
representations,
or learning by situated agents and robots.

  * 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.

  * Novel approaches to grammatical inference: Induction by DNA
computing or quantum computing, evolutionary approaches, new
representation spaces, etc.

  * Successful applications of grammatical inference to tasks in
natural language processing such as unsupervised parsing, bioinformatics,
web interface design, robot navigation,
machine translation, pattern recognition, language acquisition, software
engineering,
computational linguistics, spam and malware detection, cognitive
psychology, etc.


INVITED SPEAKERS
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Hiroshi Sakamoto (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
 Provisional title: "Grammar Inference and Its Application to Real Data"
Edward Stabler (University of California, Los Angeles)
 TBA

ACCEPTED PAPERS
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Achilles Beros and Colin de La Higuera:
  A canonical semi-deterministic transducer.
François Coste, Gaëlle Garet and Jacques Nicolas:
  A bottom-up efficient algorithm learning substitutable languages from
positive examples.
Mattias Gybels, François Denis and Amaury Habrard:
  Some improvements of the spectral learning approach for probabilistic
grammatical inference.
Malte Isberner and Bernhard Steffen:
  An abstract framework for counterexample analysis in active automata
learning.
Adam Jardine, Jane Chandlee, Rémi Eyraud and Jeffrey Heinz:
  Very efficient learning of structured classes of subsequential functions
from positive data.
Ali Khalili and Armando Tacchella:
  Learning non-deterministic Mealy machines.
Guillaume Rabusseau and François Denis:
   Maximizing a tree series in the representation space.
James Scicluna and Colin de la Higuera:
  Grammatical inference of some probabilistic context-free grammars from
positive data using minimum satisfiability.
Chihiro Shibata:
  Inferring (k,l)-context-sensitive probabilistic context-free grammars
using hierarchical Pitman-Yor processes.
Rick Smetsers, Michele Volpato, Frits Vaandrager and Sicco Verwer:
  Bigger is not always better: on the quality of hypotheses in active
automata learning.
Yasuhiro Tajima and Genichiro Kikui:
  An example distribution for probabilistic query learning of simple
deterministic languages.
Wojciech Wieczorek and Olgierd Unold:
  Induction of directed acyclic word graph in a bioinformatics task.
Menno van Zaanen and Nanne van Noord:
  Evaluation of generation and selection in context-free grammar learning
systems.

BEST STUDENT PAPER PRIZE
========================
The best student paper prize is given to
James Scicluna for his paper
 "Grammatical inference of some probabilistic context-free grammars from
positive data using minimum satisfiability",
 coauthored with Colin de la Higuera.
Congratulations!


Please do not hesitate to contact us at icgi2014 at googlegroups.com if you
have questions.

We are looking forward to your participation.

The ICGI 2014 chairs

Alexander Clark (King's College London, United Kingdom)
Makoto Kanazawa (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Ryo Yoshinaka (Kyoto University, Japan)

Program Committee

Pieter Adriaans (Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Borja de Balle Pigem, (McGill University, Canada)
Leonor Becerra-Bonache, (Jean Monnet University, France)
Robert Berwick (MIT, USA)
Phil Blunsom (University of Oxford, UK)
Alexander Clark (King's College London, UK)
François Coste (INRIA Rennes, France)
François Denis (Aix-Marseille University, France)
Rémi Eyraud (Aix-Marseille University, France)
Colin de la Higuera (Universite de Nantes - LINA, France)
Henning Fernau (Universitat Trier, Germany)
Jeffrey Heinz (University of Delaware, USA)
Falk Howar (Carnegie-Mellon University, USA)
Makoto Kanazawa (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Tim Oates (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA)
José Oncina Carratala (Universidad de Alicante, Spain)
José M. Sempere (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)
Yasuhiro Tajima (Okayama Prefectural University, Japan)
Etsuji Tomita (University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
Sicco Verwer (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
Akihiro Yamamoto (Kyoto University, Japan)
Ryo Yoshinaka (Kyoto University, Japan)
Menno van Zaanen (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
Thomas Zeugmann (Hokkaido University, Japan)


-- 
Alex Clark
Department of Philosophy
King's College London
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