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Learning Regular Languages from Simple Positive Examples

Learning Regular Languages from Simple Positive Examples Learning from positive data constitutes an important topic in Grammatical Inference since it is believed that the acquisition of grammar by children only needs syntactically correct (i.e. positive) instances. However, classical learning models provide no way to avoid the problem of overgeneralization. In order to overcome this problem, we use here a learning model from simple examples, where the notion of simplicity is defined with the help of Kolmogorov complexity. We show that a general and natural heuristic which allows learning from simple positive examples can be developed in this model. Our main result is that the class of regular languages is probably exactly learnable from simple positive examples. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Machine Learning Springer Journals

Learning Regular Languages from Simple Positive Examples

Machine Learning , Volume 44 (2) – Oct 20, 2004

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 2001 by Kluwer Academic Publishers
Subject
Computer Science; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Control, Robotics, Mechatronics; Computing Methodologies; Simulation and Modeling; Language Translation and Linguistics
ISSN
0885-6125
eISSN
1573-0565
DOI
10.1023/A:1010826628977
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Abstract

Learning from positive data constitutes an important topic in Grammatical Inference since it is believed that the acquisition of grammar by children only needs syntactically correct (i.e. positive) instances. However, classical learning models provide no way to avoid the problem of overgeneralization. In order to overcome this problem, we use here a learning model from simple examples, where the notion of simplicity is defined with the help of Kolmogorov complexity. We show that a general and natural heuristic which allows learning from simple positive examples can be developed in this model. Our main result is that the class of regular languages is probably exactly learnable from simple positive examples.

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Machine LearningSpringer Journals

Published: Oct 20, 2004

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