[Corpora-List] Call for participation: IJCAI workshop on Grammatical Inference Applications

From: Menno van Zaanen (menno@ics.mq.edu.au)
Date: Wed Jun 01 2005 - 05:12:28 MET DST

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                                                                    Call for Participation
                                                                     IJCAI 2005 Workshop

                                                    GRAMMATICAL INFERENCE APPLICATIONS
                                                     Successes and Future Challenges

                                                    To be held in Edinburgh, Scotland,
                                              prior to IJCAI-05 on July 31, 2005.

                                            http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~menno/IJCAI05/

    Background

    There has been growing interest over the last few years in learning
    grammars from text and other types of sequential, structured, and
    semi-structured data. The family of techniques enabling such learning
    is usually called grammatical inference or grammar induction (GI). It
    makes use of results and techniques from, among others, machine
    learning, formal language theory, computational learning theory, and
    statistics to learn, induce or infer a grammar or an automaton from a
    training sample. There have been many theoretical and experimental
    results in the field as well as a wide range of applications,
    including computational linguistics, text mining, speech recognition,
    computational biology, web intelligence, and robotics.

    Aim of the workshop

    The workshop is intended as a meeting point of researchers working on
    applications of grammatical inference with more speculative ideas.

    It should be noted that a tutorial on Grammatical Inference will be
    given at IJCAI, enables those interested in getting an even more
    general picture of the field and the techniques to do so.

    Invited speaker

    Raymond Mooney (University of Texas at Austin)

    Participants

    The workshop is open to all members of the AI community and we
    especially encourage the participation of researchers who are
    interested in GI and are working on applications where these
    techniques might be used and researchers with a GI background that
    have an interest in applications.

    To encourage interaction and a broad exchange of ideas, the workshop
    will be limited to 40 participants and ample time will be allotted for
    general discussion. Workshop attendees need not register for the main
    IJCAI conference, but are encouraged to do so.

    ***
    Note that in order to register for the workshop, the organizers need
    to be contacted first. If you are interested in participating, please
    send an email to: menno@ics.mq.edu.au.
    ***

    Format

    The workshop will consist of 30 minute presentations and ample time
    will be allocated for discussions. In addition to the oral
    presentations, a poster session is included in the programme.
    Furthermore, there will be a panel discussion on future and more
    speculative work in applications of GI.

    Organization

    - Colin de la Higuera (Universite de Saint-Etienne, France),
    - Tim Oates (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA),
    - Georgios Paliouras (NCSR "Demokritos", Greece),
    - Menno van Zaanen (Macquarie University, Australia).

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