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The terms grammatical inference and grammar induction both seem to indicate that techniques aiming at building grammatical formalisms when given some information about a language are not concerned with automata or other finite state machines. This is far from true, and many of the more important results in grammatical inference rely heavily on automata formalisms, and particularly on the specific use of determinism that is made. We survey here some of the main ideas and results in the field.
This work was partially supported by the IST Programme of the European Community, under the Pascal 2 Network of Excellence, Ist–2006-216886.
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de la Higuera, C. (2010). Learning Finite State Machines. In: Yli-Jyrä, A., Kornai, A., Sakarovitch, J., Watson, B. (eds) Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing. FSMNLP 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6062. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14684-8_1
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