[Ltg] LTG Seminar [Menno van Zannen, Dec. 13, 11am, E6A357]

[Rolf Schwitter]

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LTG Seminar
 - see: http://www.clt.mq.edu.au/Events/Seminars.html

Monday, December 13, 2004 at 11am
Macquarie Uni, E6A 357
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Speaker: Menno van Zannen
Title: How to get from A to ABL

If you want to structure sequences (such as natural lanuage sentences), you 
could use for example a grammar and parse the sequences.  However, what do 
you do if such a grammar is not available?  This problem can occur, for 
example, when analyzing sentences written in an ancient natural language, or 
a natural language for which no grammar has been created yet.  To make 
things worse, it may also be a sentence from a ``language'' for which it is 
unclear what the grammar should look like (for example in music).

The Alignment-Based Learning framework is a grammatical inference framework 
(or more precisely a structure inference framework).  By analyzing the 
sentences, it tries to find regularities that may be used to assign 
structure to unstructured sequences.

In this talk, I will explain how the system works, how it arose, how it 
evolved and how it can be used in the future.  This will give a compact 
overview of the previous work I have done and some ideas on future work I 
would like to perform.