Stochastic k-testable Tree Languages and Applications

  • Authors:
  • Juan Ramón Rico-Juan;Jorge Calera-Rubio;Rafael C. Carrasco

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICGI '02 Proceedings of the 6th International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference: Algorithms and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

In this paper, we describe a generalization for tree stochastic languages of the k-gram models. These models are based on the k- testable class, a subclass of the languages recognizable by ascending tree automata. One of the advantages of this approach is that the probabilistic model can be updated in an incremental fashion. Another feature is that backing-off schemes can be defined. As an illustration of their applicability, they have been used to compress tree data files at a better rate than string-based methods.