ICGI-2000 5th International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference Lisbon, Portugal September 11-13th, 2000 http://algos.inesc.pt/icgi-2000 SCOPE ICGI-2000 is the fifth in a series of successful biennial international conferences on the area of grammatical inference. This year, ICGI will be co-located with the 2nd Learning Language In Logic LLL 2000 Workshop and the Fourth Computational Natural Language Learning CoNLL 2000 Workshop. It will also be co-located with the SIARP-2000. Grammatical inference has been extensively addressed by researchers in information theory, automata theory, language acquisition, computational linguistics, machine learning, pattern recognition, computational learning theory and neural networks. This colloquium aims at bringing together researchers in these fields. Previous editions of this meeting were held in Essex, U.K.; Alicante, Spain; Montpellier, France; and Ames, Iowa, USA. LOCATION ICGI-2000 will be held in Lisbon. Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, is a modern city which is undergoing profound transformations. Known as the city of the seven hills, mother city of sailors and explorers of seas, a diamond enchased on the bank of a river, the Tagus, Lisbon has a lot to offer both in terms of history, culture and social life, both in the city itself and the nearby coast. Portugal's geographical location makes Lisbon easily accessible for travellers from all corners of the world . The conference will be located in Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST), Portugal's major technical university. IST is located in the center of Lisbon, with easy access to hotels, restaurants and touristic attractions. Lisbon is well served by air connections to many major European and American cities. Some direct connections to Asia also exist but are less common. Lisbon airport is located less than 15 minutes away from IST, accessible by cab or public transportation. ICGI-2000 will be held in the week immediately following ICPR 2000, which is held in Barcelona. AREAS OF INTEREST Topics of Interest The conference seeks to provide a forum for presentation and discussion of original research papers on all aspects of grammatical inference including, but not limited to:
Pavel Brazdil, University of Porto, Portugal
Michael Brent, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Walter Daelemans, Tilburg University, Netherlands
Pierre Dupont, Univ. de St. Etienne, France
Dominique Estival, Syrinx Speech Systems, Sydney, Australia
Ana Fred, Lisbon Technical University, Portugal
Jerry Feldman, ICSI, Berkeley, USA
Lee Giles, NEC Research Institute, USA
Colin de la Higuera, EURISE, Univ. de St. Etienne, France
Vasant Honavar, Iowa State University, USA
Kevin Lang, NEC Research Institute, USA
Laurent Miclet, ENSSAT, Lannion, France
G. Nagaraja, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India
Jacques Nicolas, IRISA, France
Arlindo Oliveira, Lisbon Technical University, Portugal (Chair)
Jose Oncina Carratala, Universidade de Alicante, Spain
Rajesh Parekh, Allstate Research and Planning Center, USA
Lenny Pitt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Yasubumi Sakakibara, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
Arun Sharma, University of New South Wales, Australia
Giora Slutzki, Iowa State University, USA
Esko Ukkonen, University of Helsinki, Finland
Stefan Wermter, University of Sunderland, UK
Enrique Vidal, U. Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Thomas Zeugmann, Kyushu University, Japan
CONFERENCE FORMAT The conference will include oral and possibly poster presentations of accepted papers, a small number of tutorials and invited talks. All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings. The proceedings of ICGI-2000 will be published by Springer-Verlag as a volume in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, a subseries of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Prospective authors are invited to submit a draft paper in English with the following format. The cover page should specify: