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Stochastic inference of regular tree languages. (English) Zbl 0983.68106

Summary: We generalize a former algorithm for regular language identification from stochastic samples to the case of tree languages. It can also be used to identify context-free languages when structural information about the strings is available. The procedure identifies equivalent subtrees in the sample and outputs the hypothesis in linear time with the number of examples. The results are evaluated with a method that computes efficiently the relative entropy between the target grammar and the inferred one.

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68Q45 Formal languages and automata
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