Grammatical Inference: Learning Automata and Grammars

de la Higuera, Colin

ISBN 10: 0521763169 / ISBN 13: 9780521763165

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Grammatical Inference: Learning Automata and Grammars
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521763169
• ISBN 13: 9780521763165
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

The problem of inducing, learning or inferring grammars has been studied for decades, but only in recent years has grammatical inference emerged as an independent field with connections to many scientific disciplines, including bio-informatics, computational linguistics and pattern recognition. This book meets the need for a comprehensive and unified summary of the basic techniques and results, suitable for researchers working in these various areas. In Part I, the objects of use for grammatical inference are studied in detail: strings and their topology, automata and grammars, whether probabilistic or not. Part II carefully explores the main questions in the field: What does learning mean? How can we associate complexity theory with learning? In Part III the author describes a number of techniques and algorithms that allow us to learn from text, from an informant, or through interaction with the environment. These concern automata, grammars, rewriting systems, pattern languages or transducers.

About the Author

Colin de la Higuera is Professor of Computer Science in the Laboratoire Hubert Curien at the Université Jean Monnet de Saint-Etienne.