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Learning subregular classes of languages with factored deterministic automata

  • Earlham College

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Abstract

This paper shows how factored finitestate representations of subregular language classes are identifiable in the limit from positive data by learners which are polytime iterative and optimal. These representations are motivated in two ways. First, the size of this representation for a given regular language can be exponentially smaller than the size of the minimal deterministic acceptor recognizing the language. Second, these representations (including the exponentially smaller ones) describe actual formal languages which successfully model natural language phenomenon, notably in the subfield of phonology.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMoL 2013 - Proceedings of the 13th Meeting on the Mathematics of Language, Proceedings
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages64-71
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781937284657
StatePublished - 2013
Event13th Meeting on the Mathematics of Language, MoL 2013 - Sofia, Bulgaria
Duration: Aug 9 2013 → …

Publication series

NameMoL 2013 - Proceedings of the 13th Meeting on the Mathematics of Language, Proceedings

Conference

Conference13th Meeting on the Mathematics of Language, MoL 2013
Country/TerritoryBulgaria
CitySofia
Period08/9/13 → …

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