Grammatical Inference : Learning Automata and Grammars (Hardcover)

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; 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; 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.