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Call for Software Demonstrations
ICGI-2002
6th International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
September 23-25th, 2002
CALL
The ICGI 2002 Program Committee invites proposals for software
demonstrations at the ICGI 2002. We encourage the exhibition of
early (research) prototypes, but interesting mature systems may
also be demonstrated.
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.
LOCATION
ICGI-2002 will be held in Amsterdam. Amsterdam, the capital of
the Netherlands is a city with a rich history. With it historical
center and its canals it is also known as the Venice of the
North. It has a lot to offer both in terms of history, culture
and social life (www.amsterdam.nl/e_tourism/e_tourism.html).
Holland's geographical location makes Amsterdam via Schiphol
Airport easily accessible for travelers from all corners of the
world .
The conference will be located in the Institute for Language
Logic and Computation (ILLC: www.illc.uva.nl) at the Universiteit
van Amsterdam (www.uva.nl). The Universiteit van Amsterdam was
founded as the Athenaeum Illustre in 1632 and has developed into
one of the bigger general universities in Europe. The conference
is located in the center of Amsterdam, with easy access to
hotels, restaurants and touristic attractions.
Amsterdam is well served by air connections to many major
European and American cities. Schiphol Airport is located less
than 15 minutes away from Amsterdam, accessible by cab or public
transportation.
AREAS OF INTEREST
The conference seeks to provide a forum for presentation and
discussion of original research 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
approaches, minimum description length, and
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 modeling of natural language, etc.
* Demonstrated 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.
FORMAT
Demo proposals should consist of the following parts:
* An abstract in English of the technical content to be
demonstrated, not to exceed three pages, including:
* title,
* authors and affiliation,
* full contact information of the contact author,
* references and acknowledgments.
* The abstract will be added to the proceedings of ICGI-2002,
which will be published by Springer-Verlag as a volume in their
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series, a subserie of
the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.
* Please state what you can bring yourself and what you
absolutely must have provided. We will do our best to provide
equipment and resources *but nothing can be guaranteed at this
point beyond space and power*. Please contact the demo committee
for any specific questions. You are encouraged to bring as much
of your own equipment as possible!
PROCEDURE
Proposals should be submitted as soon as possible, but before
1 July 2002 using the submission form which can be found on the ICGI
2002 homepage (http://www.illc.uva.nl/ICGI-2002/).
EVALUATION
Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of their relevance to
the field of grammar induction, innovation, scientific
contribution, presentation, and user friendliness, as well as
potential logistical constraints.
DEADLINES
Submission of software demo proposals: 1 July 2002
Notification of acceptance: 8 July 2002
Submission of revised proposals: 14 July 2002
Conference dates: 23-25 September 2002
SOFTWARE DEMONSTRATION COMMITTEE
Pieter Adriaans
Institute for Language Logic and Communication (ILLC)
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Plantage Muidergracht 24
1018 TV AMSTERDAM
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 6 54234459
Fax: +31 20 525 5206
E-mail: pietera@science.uva.nl
Henning Fernau
University of Newcastle
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University Drive
Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia
Phone: +61 2 4921 6076
Fax: +61 2 4921 6929
fernau@cs.newcastle.edu.au
WWW: http://www.cs.newcastle.edu.au/~fernau
Menno van Zaanen (demo organiser)
Institute for Language Logic and Communication (ILLC)
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Plantage Muidergracht 24
1018 TV AMSTERDAM
The Netherlands
E-mail: mvzaanen@science.uva.nl
http://www.science.uva.nl/~mvzaanen
SPONSORS
ILLC, Institute for Language Logic and Computation
OZSL, Onderzoeks school voor logica
Contacts with additional sponsors are currently under way.
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 | "The more it stays the same,
| mvzaanen@science.uva.nl | the less it changes."
| http://www.science.uva.nl/~mvzaanen | -Spinal Tap
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