Grammatical inference: an introduction Module X9IT050, Colin de la Higuera, Nantes, 2014
Context Nantes France cities, work found via Wiikimedia, by David Monniaux, CC BY-SA 3.0 Colin de la Higuera, Nantes, 2014
Acknowledgements http://pagesperso.lina.univ-nantes.fr/~cdlh/ Pieter Adriaans, Hasan Ibne Akram, Anne-Muriel Arigon, Leo Becerra-Bonache, Achilles Beros, Cristina Bibire, Alex Clark, Rafael Carrasco, Paco Casacuberta, Pierre Dupont, Rémi Eyraud, Philippe Ezequel, Henning Fernau, Jeffrey Heinz, Jean-Christophe Janodet, Satoshi Kobayachi, Laurent Miclet, Hugo Mougard, Thierry Murgue, Tim Oates, Jose Oncina, James Scicluna, Frédéric Tantini, Franck Thollard, Sicco Verwer, Enrique Vidal, Menno van Zaanen... http://pagesperso.lina.univ-nantes.fr/~cdlh/ http://videolectures.net/colin_de_la_higuera/ Colin de la Higuera, Nantes, 2014
Practical Information Grammatical Inference is module X9IT050 18 hours (so about 14 classes) http://pagesperso.lina.univ-nantes.fr/~cdlh/X9IT050.html Evaluation: one exam and a project There will be a small exam on the last session Project: learn phonological transducers Colin de la Higuera, Nantes, 2014
Some useful material The Grammatical Inference Software Repository: https://logiciels.lina.univ-nantes.fr/redmine/projects/gisr/wiki Talks: http://videolectures.net A book Articles START HERE http://pagesperso.lina.univ-nantes.fr/~cdlh/X9IT050.html Colin de la Higuera, Nantes, 2014
What I plan to talk about (1) 23/09/2014 An introduction to grammatical inference. About what learning a language means, how we can measure success. 1/10/2014 A motivating example. 8/10/2014 Learning: identifying or approximating? 15/10/2014 Learning from text. 16/10/2014 Learning from text: the window languages. 21/10/2014 Learning from an informant: the RPNI algorithm and variants. 5/11/2014 Learning distributions: why? How should we measure success? About distances between distributions. Colin de la Higuera, Nantes, 2014
What I plan to talk about (2) 10/11/2014 Learning distributions: learning the weights given a structure. EM, Gibbs sampling and the spectral methods. 13/11/2014 Learning distributions: state merging techniques. 19/11/2014 Active learning 1: About active learning. 24/11/2014 Active learning 2: The MAT algorithm. 26/11/2014 Learning transducers. 1/12/2014 Learning probabilistic transducers. 3/12/2014 Exam. Colin de la Higuera, Nantes, 2014
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