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                         5th International Colloquium on
                                  Grammatical Inference

                                       Lisbon, Portugal
                                September 11-13th, 2000

http://algos.inesc.pt/icgi-2000

SCOPE

ICGI-2000 is the fifth in a series of successful biennial
international conferences on the area of grammatical inference.

This year, ICGI will be co-located with the 2nd Learning Language In
Logic Workshop (LLL 2000) and the Fourth Computational Natural
Language Learning (CoNLL 2000) Workshop.

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;  and Ames, Iowa, USA.

LOCATION

ICGI-2000 will be held in Lisbon.  Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, is
a modern city which is undergoing profound transformations.  Known as
the city of the seven hills, mother city of sailors and explorers
of seas, a diamond enchased on the bank of a river, the Tagus, Lisbon
has a lot to offer both in terms of history, culture and social life,
both in the city itself and the nearby coast.
Portugal's geographical location makes Lisbon easily accessible for
travellers from all corners of the world .

The conference will be located in Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST),
Portugal's major technical university. IST is located in the center of
Lisbon, with easy access to hotels, restaurants and touristic
attractions.

Lisbon is well served by air connections to many major European
and American cities. Some direct connections to Asia also exist
but are less common. Lisbon airport is located less than 15 minutes
away from IST, accessible by cab or public transportation.

ICGI-2000 will be held in the week immediately following ICPR 2000,
which is held in Barcelona.

AREAS OF INTEREST

Topics of Interest

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:

* 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 modelling and control, and other domains.

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE (partial)

Pieter Adriaans, Syllogic/University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Pavel Brazdil, University of Porto, Portugal

Michael Brent, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Walter Daelemans, Tilburg University, Netherlands

Pierre Dupont, Univ. de St. Etienne, France

Dominique Estival,  Syrinx Speech Systems, Sydney, Australia

Ana Fred, Lisbon Technical University, Portugal

Jerry Feldman, ICSI, Berkeley, USA

Lee Giles, NEC Research Institute, USA

Colin de la Higuera, EURISE, Univ. de St. Etienne, France

Vasant Honavar, Iowa State University, USA

Kevin Lang, NEC Research Institute, USA

Laurent Miclet, ENSSAT, Lannion, France

G. Nagaraja, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India

Jacques Nicolas, IRISA, France

Arlindo Oliveira, Lisbon Technical University, Portugal (Chair)

Jose Oncina Carratala, Universidade de Alicante, Spain

Rajesh Parekh, Allstate Research and Planning Center, USA

Lenny Pitt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Yasubumi Sakakibara, Tokyo Denki University, Japan

Arun Sharma, University of New South Wales, Australia

Giora Slutzki, Iowa State University, USA

Esko Ukkonen, University of Helsinki, Finland

Stefan Wermter, University of Sunderland, UK

Enrique Vidal, U. Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

Thomas Zeugmann, Kyushu University, Japan

CONFERENCE FORMAT

The conference will include oral and possibly poster presentations of
accepted papers, a small number of tutorials and invited talks. All accepted
papers will appear in the conference proceedings. The proceedings of
ICGI-2000 will be published by Springer-Verlag as a volume in their
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, a subseries of the Lecture
Notes in Computer Science series.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Prospective authors are invited to submit a draft paper in English
with the following format.  The cover page should specify:

      - submission to ICGI-2000
      - title,
      - category (1-8) which most closely matches the paper contents
      - authors and affiliation,
      - mailing address, phone, fax, and e-mail address of the
        contact author,
      - a brief abstract describing the work,
      - at least three keywords which can specify typically the contents
        of the work.

For blind review, the paper itself should not contain explicit indication of
the authors.

Postscript versions of the papers should be formatted according to
A4 or 8.5"x11", and the length should not exceed 12 pages excluding
the cover page.  The technical expositions should be directed to a
specialist and should include an introduction understandable to a non
specialist that describes the problem studied and the results
achieved, focusing on the important ideas and their significance.

All paper submissions, review and notification of acceptance will be
done electronically through the conference's WWW pages

http://algos.inesc.pt/icgi-2000

DEADLINES

Submission of manuscripts:      April 14, 2000
Notification of acceptance:     May 27th, 2000
Final version of manuscript:    June 28th, 2000

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

GENERAL CHAIR

Arlindo Oliveira
Department of Informatics
Systems and Computers Research Institute (INESC)
Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST)
Technical University of Lisbon
Rua Alves Redol, 9
1000 Lisboa, PORTUGAL
Phone: +351-21-3100228
Fax:   +341-21-3145843
E-mail: aml@inesc.pt

LOCAL ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE

Ana Fred (chair)
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST)
Torre Norte
Technical University of Lisbon
Av. Rovisco Pais
1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal
Tel: +351-21-8418469
Fax: +351-21-8418472
E-mail:afred@lisboa.lx.it.pt

Ana T. Freitas
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST)
Systems and Computers Research Institute (INESC)
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
E-mail: atf@inesc.pt

SECRETARIAT

Ana de Jesus
Systems and Computers Research Institute (INESC)
Rua Alves Redol, 9
1000 Lisboa, PORTUGAL
Phone: +351-21-3100394
Fax:   +341-21-3145843
E-mail: amnj@abaco.inesc.pt

SPONSORS:

                INESC - Systems and Computers Engineering Institute
                IST - Instituto Superior Tecnico
Contacts with additional sponsors are currently under way.

Take a look at: http://algos.inesc.pt/icgi-2000.

See you in Lisbon in September 2000!!

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