Hi.

I am looking for technical papers and/or code for a simple form
of linguistic pattern recognition, specifically, that for finite
automata.

For finite automata the solution to constructing minimal
automaton based on queries is known under the name
of Angluin's algorithm. The original paper of Dana Angluin
does not seem to be online, but can be found in most books
about machine learning. Online you can look at many of the
subsequent improvements, e.g. a parallel algorithm:
http://www.jukm.org/jucs_2_3/an_optimal_parallel_algorithm/Balcazar_J_L.pdf

So what's the state of the art for NLP, then?

Well, of course there is a lot going on. One wide branch is
statistical learning (learning is sometimes called grammar
induction, just a tip for googling), another way is to look
at it in a more logic-oriented fashion, e.g. as done here:
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/605753.html
But with NLP you always at some point hit the wall of not having
a good model of the world if you just work with grammars.

- lk

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