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Grammatical Inference
EditGrammatical inference is the process of learning a formal representation of a language’s grammatical structure from observed linguistic data, typically by identifying a grammar or equivalent formal model that accounts for the properties of the input data [1]. Within linguistics and formal language theory, it concerns the induction of grammatical systems, such as automata or rule-based grammars, from examples of strings or other structured linguistic observations [1][2]. Grammatical inference differs from descriptive grammar analysis, which explicitly describes an already identified linguistic system, by focusing on the problem of deriving a possible grammatical representation from available data [2].
language learning
formal language theory
grammar induction
computational linguistics
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- E Mark Gold; Language identification in the limit. Inf. Control. 1967, 10, 447-474. [CrossRef]
- Dana Angluin; Inductive inference of formal languages from positive data. Inf. Control. 1980, 45, 117-135. [CrossRef]
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