Grammatical Inference, likewise known as Grammar Induction, has traditionally been investigated by many researchers from very distinct fields, such as formal grammars, computational linguistics, formal linguistics, psychology, learning theory, computer science, etc. This has resulted in many interesting results, that unfortunately do not cross-over to the other fields.
More recently, there has been a trend to overcome the boundaries of the separate areas. This has already led to many discussions between researchers from these fields. We expect that in the near future many new results and systems will arise from the work that has been started by researchers from the different fields.
The underlying idea behind the special issue that now lies before you is two-fold. Firstly, ...