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Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
23-25 September 2002
ICGI 2002
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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Call for Participation
ICGI-2002
6th International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
September 23-25th, 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.
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
The conference will feature:
* 23 talks
* 2 invited speakers
* 7 software demonstrations
A preliminary program can be found on the ICGI homepage:
http://www.illc.uva.nl/ICGI-2002/
REGISTRATION
The registration fee is EUR 235,-. For students, there is a reduced
fee of EUR 115,-. Although we prefer payment in advance, payment in
cash on arrival is possible (at the registration desk).
The conference fee includes:
* participation in the conference itself
* coffee, three times lunch and dinner once
* a nice trip (still to be announced)
A registration and accommodation form is available on our secure
server, which can be reached from the website:
http://www.illc.uva.nl/ICGI-2002/
ACCOMMODATION
It is possible to book a hotel at university discount rates.
However, please note that only reservations which are made BEFORE
August 1st and which are accompanied by credit card number can be
settled.
Currently we can book you a room only in the Tulip Inn Tropen Hotel,
Linnaeausstraat 2C, Amsterdam (located next to Oosterpark and the
Tropical Museum). This is a three-star hotel with 80 rooms.
University price for a single room is 86 euro (breakfast not
included).
Remember that accommodation is hard to find in Amsterdam, especially
in September. Book a hotel as soon as possible!
ORGANISING 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
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
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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