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The Beginning

• Foreword
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• The Data and Some Applications

The Tools

• Basic Stringology
• Representing Languages
• Representing Distributions over Strings with Automata and Grammars
• About Combinatorics

What Does Learning a Language Mean?

• Identifying Languages
• Learning from Text
• Active Learning
• Learning Distributions over Strings

Learning Algorithms and Techniques

• Text Learners
• Informed Learners
• Learning with Queries
• Artificial Intelligence Techniques
• Learning Context-Free Grammars
• Learning Probabilistic Finite Automata
• Estimating the Probabilities
• Learning Transducers

The End

• A Very Small Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index