Grammatical Inference by Heuristic Search.

Abstract

A state-space search approach is presented to the problem of inferring stochastic context-free grammars from samples of stochastic context-free languages. The evaluation function used to guide the search reflects both the complexity of a proposed grammar, and the discrepancy between the sample and the grammar's language. Successful results were obtained using samples of parenthesis and addition strings, Basic English, and chain-encoded shapes. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1974
Accession Number
AD0773618

Entities

People

  • Craig M. Cook

Organizations

  • University of Maryland

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Context Free Grammars
  • Grammars
  • Language
  • Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Speech Processing/Speech Recognition.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Machine Learning Algorithms
  • AI & ML - Machine Translation
  • Space