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From: Menno van Zaanen (mvzaanen@science.uva.nl)
Date: Tue Jan 22 2002 - 10:07:48 MET

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    ICGI-2002Call for Papers
    The 6th International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference will be held
    in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    September 11-13th, 2002
    http://www.illc.uva.nl/ICGI-2002/

    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.

    AREAS OF INTEREST

    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 (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
    ated 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.

    TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

    Pieter Adriaans, Perot Systems Corporation/University of Amsterdam,
    Netherlands (Chair)
    Dana Angluin, Yale University, USA
    Dick de Jongh, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands
    Jerry Feldman, ICSI, Berkeley, USA
    Colin de la Higuera, EURISE, Univ. de St. Etienne, France
    Vasant Honavar, Iowa State University, USA
    Laurent Miclet, ENSSAT, Lannion, France
    G. Nagaraja, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India
    Arlindo Oliveira, Lisbon Technical University, Portugal
    Jose Oncina Carratala, Universidade de Alicante, Spain
    Rajesh Parekh, Blue Martini, USA
    Yasubumi Sakakibara, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
    Enrique Vidal, U. Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
    Takashi Yokomori, Waseda University, Japan
    Menno van Zaanen, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands
    Thomas Zeugmann, University at Lubeck, Germany

    CONFERENCE FORMAT

    The conference will include oral and possibly poster presentations of
    accepted papers, a small number of tutorials and invited talks. All
    accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings. The
    proceedings of ICGI-2002 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

    Prospective authors are invited to submit a draft paper in English
    with the following format. The cover page should specify:

     - submission to ICGI-2002
     - 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.illc.uva.nl/ICGI-2002/

    DEADLINES

    Submission of manuscripts: April 5, 2002
    Notification of acceptance: May 27th, 2002
    Final version of manuscript: June 28th, 2002

    ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

    Pieter Adriaans (Chair)
    Henning Fernau (Co-chair)
    Menno van Zaanen (Local organization)
    Marjan Veldhuisen (Secretariat)

    SPONSORS:

    ILLC, Institute for Language Logic and Computation
    OZSL, Dutch Research School in Logic

    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 | "Let him not vow to walk in the dark,
    | mvzaanen@science.uva.nl | who has not seen the nightfall."
    | http://www.science.uva.nl/~mvzaanen | -Elrond



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