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ICGI 2016 : The 13th International Conference on Grammatical InferenceConference Series : International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference | |||||||||||||||
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============================= 3rd CALL FOR PAPERS ICGI 2016 ============================= icgi2016.tudelft.nl NOTE: EXTENDED DEADLINE: 12 June, 2016 SCOPE, LOCATION AND PROCEEDINGS ICGI 2016 is the 13th edition of the International Conference on Grammatical Inference series, held every two years. The conference will be held at Delft University of Technology; in Delft, the Netherlands, from October 5-7, 2016. Delft is one of the most beautiful and historic cities in the world, situated in the central (western) part of the Netherlands. The city is directly accessible by train from Schiphol airport (a large international airport near Amsterdam). The conference will be hosted in the "Mekelzaal", a beautiful historic venue in a small science museum at the university campus. The conference proceedings will be published with the JMLR Workshop and Conference Proceedings series (http://jmlr.org/proceedings/). IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: 12 June, 2016 (AOE). EXTENDED Notification of acceptance: July 17, 2016. Camera-ready copy: August 28, 2016. Conference: October 5-7, 2016. INVITED SPEAKERS Hendrik Blockeel Mehryar Mohri Valentin Spitkovsky AREAS OF INTEREST The conference is on grammatical inference. Key interests are machine-learning methods applied to discrete combinatorial structures such as strings, trees, or graphs, and algorithms for learning symbolic models such as grammars, automata, Markov models, or pattern languages. 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: - Theoretical aspects of grammatical inference: learning paradigms, learnability results, complexity of learning. - Theoretical and experimental analysis of different grammatical inference approaches, including artificial neural networks, statistical methods, symbolic methods, information-theoretic approaches, minimum description length, complexity-theoretic approaches, heuristic methods, etc. - Algorithms and frameworks for learning models representing language classes inside and outside the Chomsky hierarchy, including tree and graph grammars. - Learning models with additional, sometimes numeric, inputs/outputs such as transducers, register automata, timed automata, and semi-hidden Markov models. - Active learning of these and other languages. - Methods for estimating probability distributions over strings, trees, graphs, or any data used as input for symbolic models. - Combinations of grammatical inference with related fields such as semantic representations, formal methods, or multi-agent systems. - Novel approaches to grammatical inference: induction by DNA computing or quantum computing, evolutionary approaches, spectral algorithms, using combinatorial solvers, new representation spaces, etc. - Successful applications of grammatical inference to tasks such as natural language processing, unsupervised parsing, bioinformatics, web interface design, robot navigation, machine translation, pattern recognition, language acquisition, software engineering, computational linguistics, spam and malware detection, cognitive psychology, etc. AUTHOR GUIDELINES We invite three types of papers: - Formal and/or technical papers describe original solutions (theoretical, methodological or conceptual) in the field of grammatical inference. A technical paper should clearly describe the situation or problem tackled, the relevant state of the art, the position or solution suggested and the benefits of the contribution. - Exploratory papers can describe completely new research positions or approaches. Open problems may be suggested. Current limits can be discussed. In all cases rigor in presentation will be required. Such papers must describe precisely the situation, problem, or challenge addressed, and demonstrate how current methods, tools, ways of reasoning, may be inadequate. The authors must rigorously present their approach and demonstrate its pertinence and correctness to addressing the identified situation. - Tool papers describing a new tool for grammatical inference. The tool must be publicly available and the paper has to contain several use-case studies describing the use of the tool. In addition, the paper should clearly describe the implemented algorithms, input parameters and syntax, and the produced output. There are no restrictions on the domain of application as long as the paper provides sufficient background information. CONFERENCE FORMAT The conference will include plenary and invited talks, tool demonstrations, and poster presentations of accepted papers. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Prospective authors are invited to submit a draft paper that represents original and previously unpublished work. Simultaneous submission to other conferences with published proceedings is not allowed. All papers should be submitted electronically by 12 June, 2016 AOE; the submission URL is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icgi2016. Each paper should contain title, authors and affiliation, mailing address, a brief abstract describing the work and at least three keywords that describe the contents of the work. Papers must be submitted in pdf format. The total length of the paper should not exceed 12 pages on A4-size paper. The use of LaTeX is strongly encouraged. Prospective authors are strongly recommended to use the JMLR style file for LaTeX available here: http://www.jmlr.org/format/format.html. SIKS PHD STUDENTS (A limited number of) SIKS PhD students may attend the conference for free. We are looking forward to your submissions. Organizing committee: Rick Smetsers Sicco Verwer Menno van Zaanen |
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