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	ANNOUNCEMENT: talk on Natural Language Grammatical Inference

Date:	     Thursday, September 19th, 16:15
Place:	     ISSCO
	     54 route des acacias
	     CH-1227 Carouge

Speaker:     Jason Hutchens
	     The Centre for Intelligent Information Processing Systems
	     Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
	     The University of Western Australia

Title:       Natural Language Grammatical Inference

Abstract:

Grammatical Inference is the process of automatically inferring a grammar
for a language from a set of strings in the language, and possibly also a
set of strings not in the language.  In this talk, I focus on the
development of a generic Grammatical Inference Engine which is able to find
structure within natural and artificial texts.

The techniques used to construct the grammar are similar to those used in
my research group to recognise images.  Heuristics and ad-hoc hacks have
been avoided in favour of a completely automatic, generic system.

The results show that simple techniques can be used to find complicated
structure in all sorts of data.  Potential applications include speech
recognition, image understanding, data compression, natural language
database interfaces and machine translation.

About the speaker:

Information on the work of Jason Hutchens may be found on his web page
http://ciips.ee.uwa.edu.au/~hutch/Research.html.  Information on his
research group and its work may be found on the CIIPS home page
http://ciips.ee.uwa.edu.au/.

Information:

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