Grammatical Inference Learning Automata and Grammars (ISBN-13: 9780521763165) by Colin de la Higuera
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Book: Grammatical inference: learning automata and grammars.

Colin de la Higuera
Cambridge University Press, published in April 2010
Details 170 b/w illus. 25 tables 160 exercises
Page extent: 485 pages
Size: 247 x 174 mm
ISBN-13: 978-0521763165.

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Table of contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgements;
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The data and some applications
• Part I. The Tools
  • 3. Basic stringology
  • 4. Representing languages
  • 5. Representing distributions over strings with automata and grammars (Chapter available for download)
  • 6. About combinatorics
• Part II. What Does Learning a Language Mean?
  • 7. Identifying languages
  • 8. Learning from text
  • 9. Active learning
  • 10. Learning distributions over strings
• Part III. Learning Algorithms and Techniques
  • 11. Text learners
  • 12. Informed learners (Chapter available for download)
  • 13. Learning with queries
  • 14. Artificial intelligence techniques
  • 15. Learning context-free grammars
  • 16. Learning probabilistic finite automata
  • 17. Estimating the probabilities
  • 18. Learning transducers
• 19. A very small conclusion
• References
• Index