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Grammatical Inference - A Magical Mystery Tour
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In: http://ciips.ee.uwa.edu.au/~hutch/phd/talk1.ps.gz (1996)
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Abstract:
How do children learn language? Is it already in their heads when they are born, or do they acquire language through experience? Is it possible to program a computer to learn a language using techniques which are possibly available to the human infant? Grammatical Inference strives to automatically infer a grammar for a language from a subset of the strings in the language, and possibly also a set of strings not in the language. There are many useful applications which will benefit from a general Grammatical Inference Engine, such as speech and image recognition, natural language processing systems, and database query engines. In this paper I give a general overview of the relatively new field of Grammatical Inference, starting from its application in a speech recognition system. I cover most of the commonly used techniques, and discuss some of the objections raised by linguists to these techniques. In a subsequent paper I will describe my project in detail and will cove.
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Keyword:
in the inference of natural languages as this problem is the most challenging
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URL: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.41.8596
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