Grammatical Inference: Algorithms and Applications

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference, ICGI 2006. The book presents 25 revised full papers and 8 revised short papers together with 2 invited contributions, carefully reviewed and selected. The topics discussed range from theoretical results of learning algorithms to innovative applications of grammatical inference and from learning several interesting classes of formal grammars to applications to natural language processing.