This year, ICGI is held on-line over 5 days (August 23 to August 27). A live talk will take place everyday (an invited talk or a tutorial), followed by a session of live Questions & Answers with the authors of 3 of the accepted papers (each paper comes with a 20 minutes video available now from this page – you need a password to watch them, provided to registered participants).
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
Monday, August 23
| 8:00 AM (US East Coast) 2:00 PM (Brussels) 9:00 PM (Japan) | Opening Remarks | proceedings preface |
| 8:10 AM (US East Coast) 2:10 PM (Brussels) 9:10 PM (Japan) | Invited Speaker: Dana Fisman | Learning languages of infinite words |
| 9:10 AM (US East Coast) 3:10 PM (Brussels) 10:10 PM (Japan) | Break | |
| 9:15 AM (US East Coast) 3:15 PM (Brussels) 10:15 PM (Japan) | Q&A: Alexander Clark | Beyond Chomsky normal form: Extending Strong learning algorithms for PCFGs (video & article) |
| 9:25 AM (US East Coast) 3:25 PM (Brussels) 10:25 PM (Japan) | Q&A: Makoto Kanazawa & Ryo Yoshinaka | A Hierarchy of Context-Free Languages Learnable from Positive Data and Membership Queries (video & article) |
| 9:35 AM (US East Coast) 3:35 PM (Brussels) 10:35 PM (Japan) | Q&A: Ryuta Kambe, Naoki Kobayashi, Ryosuke Sato, Ayumi Shinohara and Ryo Yoshinaka | Inside-Outside Algorithm for Macro Grammars (video & article) |
Tuesday, August 24
| 8:00 AM (US East Coast) 2:00 PM (Brussels) 9:00 PM (Japan) | Tutorial: Robert Frank | The Formal Complexity of Natural Language Grammars Revisited: Perspectives from Neural Networks |
| 9:30 AM (US East Coast) 3:30 PM (Brussels) 10:30 PM (Japan) | Break | |
| 9:35 AM (US East Coast) 3:35 PM (Brussels) 10:35 PM (Japan) | Q&A: Wenyue Hua & Adam Jardine | Learning Input Strictly Local Functions From Their Composition (video & article) |
| 9:45 AM (US East Coast) 3:45 PM (Brussels) 10:45 PM (Japan) | Q&A: Phillip Burness & Kevin McMullin | Learning Multiple Independent Tier-based Processes (video & article) |
| 9:55 AM (US East Coast) 3:55 PM (Brussels) 10:55 PM (Japan) | Q&A: Dakotah Lambert | Grammar Interpretations and Learning TSL Online (video & article) |
Wednesday, August 25
| 8:00 AM (US East Coast) 2:00 PM (Brussels) 9:00 PM (Japan) | Invites speaker: C. Lee Giles | Grammatical Inference, Memory and Neural Networks |
| 9:00 AM (US East Coast) 3:00 PM (Brussels) 10:00 PM (Japan) | Break | |
| 9:05 AM (US East Coast) 3:05 PM (Brussels) 10:05 PM (Japan) | Q&A: Clara Lacroce, Prakash Panangaden and Guillaume Rabusseau | Extracting Weighted Automata for Approximate Minimization in Language Modelling (video & article) |
| 9:15 AM (US East Coast) 3:15 PM (Brussels) 10:15 PM (Japan) | Q&A: Benoît Barbot, Benedikt Bollig, Alain Finkel, Serge Haddad, Igor Khmelnitsky, Martin Leucker, Daniel Neider, Rajarshi Roy and Lina Ye | Extracting Context-Free Grammars from Recurrent Neural Networks using Tree-Automata Learning and A* Search (video & article) |
| 9:25 AM (US East Coast) 3:25 PM (Brussels) 10:25 PM (Japan) | Q&A: Ankur Mali, Alexander Ororbia, Daniel Kifer and Lee Giles | Investigating Backpropagation Alternatives when Learning to Dynamically Count in Recurrent Neural Networks (video & article) |
Thursday, August 26
| 8:00 AM (US East Coast) 2:00 PM (Brussels) 9:00 PM (Japan) | Tutorial: Gail Weiss | Formal Abstractions of Neural Sequence Models |
| 9:30 AM (US East Coast) 3:30 PM (Brussels) 10:30 PM (Japan) | Break | |
| 9:35 AM (US East Coast) 3:35 PM (Brussels) 10:35 PM (Japan) | Q&A: Ankur Mali, Alexander Ororbia, Daniel Kifer and Lee Giles | Recognizing Long Grammatical Sequences using Recurrent Networks Augmented with an External Differentiable Stack (video & article) |
| 9:45 AM (US East Coast) 3:45 PM (Brussels) 10:45 PM (Japan) | Q&A: Victor Connes, Colin De La Higuera and Hoel Le Capitaine | Using Grammatical Inference to Build Privacy Preserving Data-sets of User Logs (video & article) |
| 9:55 AM (US East Coast) 3:55 PM (Brussels) 10:55 PM (Japan) | Q&A: Wojciech Wieczorek, Łukasz Strąk, Arkadiusz Nowakowski and Olgierd Unold | A Toolbox for Context-Sensitive Grammar Induction by Genetic Search (video & article) |
| 10:05 AM (US East Coast) 4:05 PM (Brussels) 11:05 PM (Japan) | Social Event | Gather.Town (1 hour, or longer if necessary) |
Friday, August 27
| 8:00 AM (US East Coast) 2:00 PM (Brussels) 9:00 PM (Japan) | Invited Speaker: Guillaume Rabusseau | Connections between Weighted Automata, Spectral Learning and Tensor Networks |
| 9:00 AM (US East Coast) 3:00 PM (Brussels) 10:00 PM (Japan) | Break | |
| 9:05 AM (US East Coast) 3:05 PM (Brussels) 10:05 PM (Japan) | Q&A: Kaito Suzuki, Diptarama Hendrian, Ryo Yoshinaka and Ayumi Shinohara | Query Learning Algorithm for Symbolic Weighted Finite Automata (video & article) |
| 9:15 AM (US East Coast) 3:15 PM (Brussels) 10:15 PM (Japan) | Q&A: Kristian Guillaumier and John Abela | Learning DFAs by Evolving Short Sequences of Merges (video & article) |
| 9:25 AM (US East Coast) 3:25 PM (Brussels) 10:25 PM (Japan) | Q&A: Nathanaël Fijalkow and Guillaume Lagarde | The complexity of learning linear temporal formulas from examples (video & article) |
| 9:35 AM (US East Coast) 3:35 PM (Brussels) 10:35 PM (Japan) | Business meeting | About an hour of discussion about the current state of our community, its future, and anything else you think deserved to be discussed. |