Main topics

I am working on syntactic analysis of transcribed speech. More precisely, in the confidence measure within the active learning framework.

Some other topics I am interested in are: grammatical inference, formal language theory, identification in the limit.

Publications

• Thesis
  • Inférence grammaticale en situations bruitées (Grammatical Inference in noisy settings).
    Manuscript: PDF, PS.
    Abstract: PDF, PS.
    Slides: PDF.
• International Journals
  • Learning Balls of Strings from Edit Corrections (PDF, Bibtex).
    Colin de la Higuera, Jean-Christophe Janodet and Frédéric Tantini.
    Journal of Machine Learning Research 9 (2008) 1823-1852.
• International Conferences
  • Learning Languages from Bounded Resources: The Case of the DFA and the Balls of Strings (PDF, Bibtex).
    Colin de la Higuera, Jean-Christophe Janodet and Frédéric Tantini.
    Proc. 9th International Conference in Grammatical Inference (ICGI'08).
    Saint-Malo, France, September 2008. LNAI 5278. p. 43-56.
  • Learning Balls of Strings with Correction Queries (PDF, Bibtex).
    Leonor Becerra Bonache, Colin de la Higuera, Jean-Christophe Janodet and Frédéric Tantini.
    Proc. 18th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML'07).
    Warsow, Poland, September 2007. LNAI 4701, p. 18-29.
  • Identification in the limit of systematic noisy languages (PS, PDF, Bibtex).
    Frédéric Tantini, Colin de la Higuera and Jean-Christophe Janodet.
    Proc. 8th International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference (ICGI'06).
    Chofu, Tokyo, Japan, September 2006. LNAI 4201, p. 19-31.
  • Learning Stochastic Finite Automata for Musical Style Recognition (Long version, Bibtex).
    Colin de la Higuera, Frédéric Piat and Frédéric Tantini.
    Proc. 10th International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata.
    Sophia Antipolis, France, June 2005. LNCS 3845, p. 345-346 (poster)
• National Conferences
  • Apprentissage de langages à partir de ressources bornées : le cas des AFD et des boules de mots (PDF).
    Colin de la Higuera, Jean-Christophe Janodet and Frédéric Tantini.
    Proc. Conférence en Apprentissage CAp 2008.
    Porquerolles, France, May 2008. Eds CEPADUES, p. 55-70.
  • Apprentissage des boules de mots avec des requêtes de correction (PDF, Bibtex).
    Leonor Becerra Bonache, Colin de la Higuera, Jean-Christophe Janodet and Frédéric Tantini.
    Proc. Conférence en Apprentissage CAp 2007.
    Grenoble, France, July 2007. Eds CEPADUES, p. 55-70.
  • Identification à la limite de langages dans le cadre d'un bruit systématique (PDF, PS, Bibtex).
    Frédéric Tantini, Colin de la Higuera and Jean-Christophe Janodet.
    Proc. Conférence en Apprentissage CAp 2006.
    Trégastel, France, May 2006. Presses Universitaires de Grenoble p.203-218.
• Workshops and Competitions
  • Learning Balls from Correction Queries (PDF).
    Leonor Becerra Bonache, Colin de la Higuera, Jean-Christophe Janodet and Frédéric Tantini.
    Proc. PASCAL Workshop in Grammatical Inference: Open Problems and New Directions.
    Saint-Étienne, France, November 2006. p. 25-26.
  • BLUE*: A Blue-Fringe Procedure to Learn DFA from Noisy Data (PDF).
    Marc Sebban, Jean-Christophe Janodet and Frédéric Tantini.
    Competition Learning DFA from Noisy Data.
    A parallel event to the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference.
    Seattle, USA, June 2004.
• Technical Reports
  • Learning Balls of Strings with Correction Queries.
    Leonor Becerra Bonache, Colin de la Higuera, Jean-Christophe Janodet and Frédéric Tantini.
    Long version of the ECML07 submission.
  • Learning Balls of Strings: A Horizontal Analysis.
    Colin de la Higuera, Jean-Christophe Janodet and Frédéric Tantini.
    
  • Mémoire Master 2 : Apprentissage d'automates stochastiques pour la classification automatique de styles musicaux (PDF).