menno van zaanen hxeqgicsmqeduau dear colleagues apologize receive announcement due numerous requests committee icgi 2006 decides extend paper submission deadline may 27 2006 extended call papers icgi 2006 8th international colloquium grammatical inference httpwwwtnlabiceuecacjpicgi06 ggwk73dnabiokeioacjp university electrocommunications chofu tokyo 1828585 japan september 20wednesday 22friday 2006 paper submission deadline extended may 27 2006 scope icgi2006 eighth series successful biennial international conferences area grammatical inference grammatical inference extensively addressed researchers information theory automata theory language acquisition computational linguistics machine learning pattern recognition computational learning theory neural networks icgi2006 first conference series held asia previous icgi conference planning hold grammatical inference competition known tenjinno competition part icgi2006 invited talks yuji matsumoto nara institute science technology parsing without grammar rules jeanphilippe vert ecole des mines de paris kernel methods classification biological sequences areas interest conference seeks provide forum presentation discussion original research papers aspects grammatical inference including limited different models grammar induction eg learning examples learning using examples queries incremental versus nonincremental learning distributionfree models learning learning various distributional assumptions learnability results complexity results characterizations representational search biases grammar induction algorithms algorithms induction different classes languages automata eg regular contextfree contextsensitive languages interesting subclasses additional syntactic constraints tree graph grammars picture grammars multidimensional grammars attributed grammars parameterized models etc theoretical experimental analysis different approaches grammar induction including artificial neural networks statistical methods symbolic methods informationtheoretic approaches minimum description length complexitytheoretic approaches heuristic methods etc broader perspectives grammar induction eg acquisition grammar conjunction language semantics semantic constraints grammars language acquisition situated agents robots acquisition language constructs describe objects events space time developmental evolutionary constraints language acquisition statistical modelling natural language etc particular emphasis given papers presenting work innovative applications grammar induction natural language acquisition computational biology web mining structural pattern recognition information retrieval text processing adaptive intelligent agents systems modelling control domains location icgi2006 held chofu tokyo conference located university electrocommunications uec httpwwwuecacjpeng conference format conference include plenary invited talks software demonstrations possibly poster presentations accepted papers tutorials special 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