کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
435835 689942 2008 28 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Discontinuities in pattern inference
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه مهندسی کامپیوتر نظریه محاسباتی و ریاضیات
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Discontinuities in pattern inference
چکیده انگلیسی

This paper deals with the inferrability of classes of E-pattern languages–also referred to as extended or erasing pattern languages–from positive data in Gold’s model of identification in the limit. The first main part of the paper shows that the recently presented negative result on terminal-free E-pattern languages over binary alphabets does not hold for other alphabet sizes, so that the full class of these languages is inferrable from positive data if and only if the corresponding terminal alphabet does not consist of exactly two distinct letters. The second main part yields the insight that the positive result on terminal-free E-pattern languages over alphabets with three or four letters cannot be extended to the class of general E-pattern languages. With regard to larger alphabets, the extensibility remains open.The proof methods developed for these main results do not directly discuss the (non-)existence of appropriate learning strategies, but they deal with structural properties of classes of E-pattern languages, and, in particular, with the problem of finding telltales for these languages. It is shown that the inferrability of classes of E-pattern languages is closely connected to some problems on the ambiguity of morphisms so that the technical contributions of the paper largely consist of combinatorial insights into morphisms in word monoids.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Theoretical Computer Science - Volume 397, Issues 1–3, 20 May 2008, Pages 166-193