Colin de la Higuera

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Teaching

Grammatical inference

Grammatical inference is about learning grammars given information about language

  • I have been giving lectures on grammatical inference in different places. I have put most of my slides here.
  • On Videolectures there are some films corresponding to these lectures: start here.
  • During 2013, I have been teaching this in Nantes. The different resources can be found here

Research methodology

I have been teaching research methodology, ethical issues, strategies... for some time

  • Some material in French corresponding to these courses can be found here.
  • Here is a video in Spanish on the topic
  • And some slides in English

ATAL

ATAL: Apprentissage et Traitement Automatique des Langues

  • In September 2012 we opened the Master Programme ATAL (Apprentissage et Traitement Automatique des Langues), on Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing. All information is here: ATAL.
  • Lectures are mostly in French. Applicants are welcome to contact me.

Research

Grammatical inference

current:

recent:

  • I was co-chair of ICGI 2012, held in Washington in September 2012
  • Jeffrey Heinz, Menno van Zaanen and I presented a tutorial at ACL 2011, held in Portland in June. The title was Formal and Empirical Grammatical Inference.
  • I organised the Zulu competition. If you are interested in learning DFA with membership queries you should check the web site.
  • I was member of the Programme Committee of FSMNLP 2013
  • The Grammatical Inference Homepage, looked after by Menno van Zaannen, but it needs updating.

Machine Learning

current:

  • I am a member of the Programme Committee of CAP 2014
  • I will be talking at WATA 2014.

recent:

Publications

  • I have tried to organise these here
  • A book published in March 2010
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SIF

What is the SIF

The Société informatique de France (SIF) is the French Learned Society in Informatics (or Computer Science).:

  • The SIF was created in May 2012, and I am its current president.
  • The SIF works on the following definition of informatics: L'informatique : la science au coeur du numérique.

What does the SIF do

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K4A

What is K4A

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Some recent activities

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OCWC 2014

OCWC is about...:

  • I am chair of the OCWC Global Conference to be held in Ljubljana in April 2014. The theme is: Open Education for a Multicultural World.
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Contact me Feel free to mail me.

Colin de la Higuera  Laboratoire LINA UMR CNRS 6241
UFR de Sciences et Techniques
2 rue de la Houssinière
BP 92208
44322 Nantes Cedex 03
France

Tel : (33) (0)2 51 12 58 33

(33) (0)2 51 12 58 97

Instructions to get to the lab by foot, car, plane or train are here