Software support for the construction of syntactic pattern recognisers by a research engineer

摘要

Syntactic pattern recognition is introduced and it is suggested that a research engineer will probably be less familiar with the language theory underlying syntactic pattern recognition than with the statistical ideas connected with decision theoretic methods. For this reason application of syntactic pattern recognition will only develop if software support is provided. The steps of grammatical inference, recogniser construction and recogniser optimisation are outlined. They are included in a scheme by which, working interactively and iteratively, a syntactic pattern recogniser can be produced. Some comments on an implementation are given.