Tree Transducers and Formal Methods (Dagstuhl Seminar 13192)

The aim of this Dagstuhl Seminar was to bring together researchers from various research areas related to the theory and application of tree transducers. Recently, interest in tree transducers has been revived due to surprising new applications in areas such as XML databases, security verification, programming language theory, and linguistics. This seminar therefore aimed to inspire the exchange of theoretical results and information regarding the practical requirements related to tree transducers

MAT learners for recognizable tree languages and tree series

We review a family of closely related query learning algorithms for unweighted and weighted tree automata, all of which are based on adaptations of the minimal adequate teacher (MAT) model by Angluin. Rather than presenting new results, the goal is to discuss these algorithms in sufficient detail to make their similarities and differences transparent to the reader interested in grammatical inference of tree automata

Learning Deterministically Recognizable Tree Series-- Revisited

Abstract. We generalize a learning algorithm originally devised for deterministic all-accepting weighted tree automata (wta) to the setting of arbitrary deterministic wta. The learning is exact, supervised, and uses an adapted minimal adequate teacher; a learning model introduced by Angluin. Our algorithm learns a minimal deterministic wta that recognizes the taught tree series and runs in polynomial time in the size of that wta and the size of the provided counterexamples. Compared to the original algorithm, we show how to handle non-final states in the learning process; this problem was posed as an open problem in [Drewes, Vogler: Learning Deterministically Recognizable Tree Series, J. Autom. Lang. Combin. 2007]

Weighted Tree Automata -- May it be a little more?

This is a book on weighted tree automata. We present the basic definitions and some of the important results in a coherent form with full proofs. The concept of weighted tree automata is part of Automata Theory and it touches the area of Universal Algebra. It originated from two sources: weighted string automata and finite-state tree automata