Title
Learning DFA from correction and equivalence queries
Abstract
In active learning, membership queries and equivalence que- ries have established themselves as the standard combination to be used. However, they are quite “unnatural” for real learning environments (membership queries are oversimplified and equivalence queries do not have a correspondence in a real life setting). Based on several linguistic arguments that support the presence of corrections in children's language acquisition, we propose another kind of query called correction query. We provide an algorithm that learns DFA using correction and equivalence queries in polynomial time. Despite the fact that the worst case complexity of our algorithm is not better than Angluin's algorithm, we show through a large number of experiments that the average number of queries is considerably reduced by using correction queries.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1007/11872436_23
ICGI
Keywords
Field
DocType
correction query,language acquisition,active learning,real learning environment,large number,real life setting,average number,equivalence que,membership query,equivalence query,learning dfa,polynomial time
Deterministic automaton,Active learning,Computer science,Theoretical computer science,Finite-state machine,Natural language,Equivalence (measure theory),Language acquisition,Time complexity,Worst-case complexity
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
4201
0302-9743
3-540-45264-8
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
21
1.00
3
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Leonor Becerra-Bonache16511.46
Adrian-Horia Dediu231525.79
Cristina Tîrnăucă3384.10