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On the learnability of E-pattern languages over small alphabets

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posted on 2008-07-09, 09:02 authored by Daniel Reidenbach
This paper deals with two well discussed, but largely open problems on E-pattern languages, also known as extended or erasing pattern languages: primarily, the learnability in Gold’s learning model and, secondarily, the decidability of the equivalence. As the main result, we show that the full class of E-pattern languages is not inferrable from positive data if the corresponding terminal alphabet consists of exactly three or of exactly four letters – an insight that remarkably contrasts with the recent positive finding on the learnability of the subclass of terminal-free E-pattern languages for these alphabets. As a side-effect of our reasoning thereon, we reveal some particular example patterns that disprove a conjecture of Ohlebusch and Ukkonen (Theoretical Computer Science 186, 1997) on the decidability of the equivalence of E-pattern languages.

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  • Computer Science

Citation

REIDENBACH, D., 2004. On the learnability of E-pattern languages over small alphabets. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3120, pp. 140-154

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© Springer-Verlag

Publication date

2004

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This is a journal article. It was published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science [© Springer Verlag] and the definitive version is available at: www.springerlink.com

ISBN

9783540222828

ISSN

0302-9743;1611-3349

Language

  • en

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