Language identification in the limit.

E. Mark Gold

ResearchPublished 1964

A consideration of the problem of identifying a language of some specified class, a language being defined as a subset of the strings on some finite alphabet. Information about the language may be given by a text, an unending succession of examples of strings in the language, or by informant, a source that tells whether successive strings are in the language. Decision procedures are considered which generate successive guesses as to the identity of the language. The language is said to be identified in the limit if these guesses are the same and correct after some finite time. Six variations each of the two basic identification situations are considered. The purpose of the Memorandum is to apply the methods and results of limiting recursion to the problem of identifying a language on the basis of an endless flow of information, presented in a manner intended to model the circumstances under which a human learns a language. 40 pp.

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Gold, E. Mark, Language identification in the limit. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1964. https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM4136.html.
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