articles.bib

@ARTICLE{pami:Vidal+Thollard+delaHiguera+Casacuberta+Carrasco:2004,
  AUTHOR = {E. Vidal and F. Thollard and C. de la Higuera and and
                  F. Casacuberta and R. C. Carrasco},
  TITLE = {Probabilistic Finite-State Machines -- {Part I}},
  JOURNAL = {IEEE Trans. on Pattern analysis and Machine Intelligence},
  YEAR = {2005},
  VOLUME = {27},
  NUMBER = {7},
  PAGES = {1013--1025},
  ABSTRACT = { In part I of this paper we survey probabilistic
                  finite-state machines as generative objects and study their
                  definitions and properties. },
  PDF = {http://www.dlsi.ua.es/~carrasco/papers/pami04_1.pdf}
}

@ARTICLE{pami:Vidal+Thollard+delaHiguera+Casacuberta+Carrasco:2004b,
  AUTHOR = {E. Vidal and F. Thollard and C. de la Higuera and and
                  F. Casacuberta and R. C. Carrasco},
  TITLE = {Probabilistic Finite-State Machines -- {Part II}},
  JOURNAL = {IEEE Trans. on Pattern analysis and Machine Intelligence},
  YEAR = {2005},
  VOLUME = {27},
  NUMBER = {7},
  PAGES = {1026--1039},
  ABSTRACT = {  In part II, we study the
                  relation of probabilistic finite-state automata with other
                  well known devices that generate strings as hidden Markov
                  models and $n$-grams, and provide theorems, algorithms and
                  properties that represent a current state of the art of
                  these objects. },
  PDF = {http://www.dlsi.ua.es/~carrasco/papers/pami04_2.pdf}
}

@ARTICLE{pami:Verdu+carrasco+Calera:2004c,
  TITLE = {Parsing with probabilistic strictly locally testable tree
                  languages},
  AUTHOR = {Jose Luis Verd\'{u}-Mas and Rafael C. Carrasco and Jorge
                  Calera-Rubio},
  JOURNAL = {IEEE Trans. on Pattern analysis and Machine Intelligence},
  YEAR = {2005},
  VOLUME = {27},
  NUMBER = {7},
  PAGES = {1040--1050},
  NUMBER = {to appear},
  ABSTRACT = {We introduce the family of stochastic $k$-testable tree
                  languages and describe how these models can approximate any
                  stochastic rational tree language. The model is applied to
                  the task of learning a probabilistic $k$-testable model from
                  a sample of parsed sentences. In particular, a parser for a
                  natural language grammar that incorporates smoothing is
                  shown.},
  PDF = {http://www.dlsi.ua.es/~carrasco/papers/pami04_3.pdf}
}

@ARTICLE{pr:Rico+Rubio+Carrasco:2004,
  AUTHOR = {Juan Ram\'{o}n Rico-Juan and Jorge Calera-Rubio and Rafael
                  C. Carrasco},
  TITLE = {Smoothing and Compression with Stochastic $k$-testable Tree
                  Languages},
  JOURNAL = {Pattern Recognition},
  VOLUME = {38},
  NUMBER = {9},
  PAGES = {1420--1430},
  YEAR = {2005},
  PDF = {http://www.dlsi.ua.es/~carrasco/papers/pr04.pdf},
  ABSTRACT = {In this paper, we describe some techniques to learn
                  probabilistic $k$-testable tree models, a generalization of
                  the well known $k$-gram models, that can be used to compress
                  or classify structured data.}
}

@ARTICLE{pr:Carrasco+Rico:2002,
  AUTHOR = {Rafael C. Carrasco and Juan Ramón Rico-Juan},
  TITLE = {A similarity between probabilistic tree languages:
                  application to {XML} document families},
  JOURNAL = {Pattern Recognition},
  YEAR = 2003,
  VOLUME = 36,
  NUMBER = 9,
  PAGES = {2197--2199},
  PDF = {http://www.dlsi.ua.es/~carrasco/papers/pr02.pdf},
  ABSTRACT = {We describe a general approach to compute a similarity
                  measure between distributions generated by probabilistic
                  tree automata. We show how this similarity
                  can be computed for families of structured (XML) documents.}
}

@ARTICLE{cl:Carrasco+Forcada:2002,
  AUTHOR = {Rafael C. Carrasco and Mikel L. Forcada},
  TITLE = {Incremental construction and maintenance of minimal
                  finite-state automata},
  JOURNAL = {Computational Linguistics},
  VOLUME = {28},
  NUMBER = {2},
  YEAR = {2002},
  PAGES = {207--216},
  PDF = {http://www.dlsi.ua.es/~carrasco/papers/cl01.pdf},
  ABSTRACT = {We describe a simple and efficient method to modify any
                  minimal finite-state automaton (acyclic or not) so that a
                  string is added to or removed from the language accepted by
                  it; both operations solve the dictionary construction
                  problem addressed by Daciuk et al. as a special case.}
}

@ARTICLE{ml:Carrasco+Oncina+Calera:2001,
  AUTHOR = {Rafael C. Carrasco and Jose Oncina and Jorge
                  Calera-Rubio},
  TITLE = {Stochastic inference of regular tree languages},
  JOURNAL = {Machine Learning},
  YEAR = {2001},
  VOLUME = {44},
  NUMBER = {1/2},
  PAGES = {185--197},
  PDF = {http://www.dlsi.ua.es/~carrasco/papers/ml99.pdf},
  ABSTRACT = {We generalize a former algorithm for regular
                  language identification from stochastic samples to
                  the case of tree languages. The algorithm is used to
                  identify context-free languages when structural
                  information about the strings is available.}
}

@ARTICLE{ieeeTKDE:Carrasco+Forcada:2000,
  AUTHOR = {Rafael C. Carrasco and Mikel L. Forcada},
  TITLE = {Simple strategies to encode tree automata in sigmoid
                  tree-walking neural networks},
  JOURNAL = {IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering},
  VOLUME = {13},
  NUMBER = {2},
  PAGES = {148-156},
  YEAR = {2001},
  PDF = {http://www.dlsi.ua.es/~carrasco/papers/TKDE99.pdf},
  ABSTRACT = { In this paper, we explore the simulation of deterministic
                  finite-state tree automata DFSTA in sigmoid tree-walking
                  neural nets TWNN (that is, analog TWNN using monotonously
                  growing transfer functions), and also present an alternative
                  scheme for one-hot encoding of the input that yields smaller
                  weight values and therefore works at a lower saturation
                  level.}
}

@ARTICLE{nc:Carrasco+Forcada:1999,
  AUTHOR = {Rafael C. Carrasco and Mikel L. Forcada and M. \'{A}ngeles
                  Vald\'{e}s-Mu\~{n}oz and Ram\'{o}n P. Ñeco},
  TITLE = {Stable encoding of finite-state machines in discrete-time
                  recurrent neural nets with sigmoid units},
  JOURNAL = {Neural Computation},
  VOLUME = {12},
  NUMBER = {9},
  PAGES = {2129--2174},
  YEAR = {2000},
  POSTSCRIPT = {http://www.dlsi.ua.es/~carrasco/papers/nc99.ps.gz},
  ABSTRACT = { Unlike previous work that either imposed some restrictions
                  to state values, or used a detailed analysis based on
                  fixed-point attractors, we present an approach which applies
                  to any positive, bounded, strictly growing, continuous
                  activation function, and uses simple bounding criteria based
                  on a study of the conditions under which a proposed encoding
                  scheme guarantees that the DTRNN is actually behaving as a
                  finite-state machine.}
}

@ARTICLE{rairo:Carrasco+Oncina:1999,
  AUTHOR = {Rafael C. Carrasco and Jose Oncina},
  JOURNAL = {RAIRO (Theoretical Informatics and Applications)},
  TITLE = {Learning deterministic regular grammars from stochastic
                  samples in polynomial time},
  VOLUME = {33},
  NUMBER = {1},
  YEAR = {1999},
  PAGES = {1--20},
  PDF = {http://www.dlsi.ua.es/~carrasco/papers/RAIRO99.pdf},
  ABSTRACT = { We propose a class of algorithms for the identification of
                  stochastic regular languages which allow for the
                  identification of the structure of the minimal stochastic
                  automaton generating the language. It is shown that the time
                  needed grows only linearly with the size of the sample set.}
}

@ARTICLE{ipl:Calera-Rubio+Carrasco:1998,
  TITLE = {Computing the relative entropy between regular tree
                  languages},
  AUTHOR = {Jorge Calera-Rubio and Rafael C. Carrasco},
  PAGES = {283--289},
  JOURNAL = {Information Processing Letters},
  YEAR = {1998},
  VOLUME = {68},
  NUMBER = {6},
  POSTSCRIPT = {http://www.dlsi.ua.es/~carrasco/papers/ipl98.ps.gz},
  ABSTRACT = { Grammatical inference methods are often checked with
                  training samples generated by a known grammar which is later
                  compared to the grammar inferred from the sample. We
                  describe an efficient procedure to compute the relative
                  entropy between two stochastic deterministic regular tree
                  grammars.}
}

@ARTICLE{rairo:Carrasco:1997,
  AUTHOR = {Rafael C. Carrasco},
  JOURNAL = {RAIRO (Theoretical Informatics and Applications)},
  TITLE = {Accurate computation of the relative entropy between
                  stochastic regular grammars},
  VOLUME = {31},
  NUMBER = {5},
  YEAR = {1997},
  PAGES = {437--444},
  PDF = {http://www.dlsi.ua.es/~carrasco/papers/RAIRO97.pdf},
  ABSTRACT = { Usually, grammatical inference methods use large test sets
                  generated with the true distribution to evaluate the
                  relative entropy between the model and the true gramamr. In
                  this paper, an iterative procedure to compute the relative
                  entropy between two stochastic deterministic regular
                  grammars is proposed.}
}

@ARTICLE{prl:Mico+Oncina+Carrasco:1996,
  AUTHOR = {Luisa Mic\'{o} and Jose Oncina and Rafael C. Carrasco},
  JOURNAL = {Pattern Recognition Letters},
  TITLE = {A fast branch and bound nearest neighbour classifier
                  in metric spaces},
  VOLUME = {17},
  NUMBER = {5},
  YEAR = {1996},
  PAGES = {731--739},
  ABSTRACT = {The recently introduced algorithm LAESA finds the
                  nearest neighbour prototype in a metric space. The
                  average number of distances computed in the
                  algorithm does not depend on the number of
                  prototypes but it shows linear space and time
                  complexities. In this paper, a new algorithm
                  (TLAESA) is proposed which has a sublinear time
                  complexity and keeps the other features unchanged.}
}

@ARTICLE{nc:Forcada+Carrasco:1995,
  AUTHOR = {Mikel L. Forcada and Rafael C. Carrasco},
  TITLE = {Learning the Initial State of a Second-Order Recurrent
                  Neural Network during Regular-Language Inference},
  TYPE = {Letter},
  JOURNAL = {Neural Computation},
  VOLUME = {7},
  NUMBER = {5},
  PAGES = {923--930},
  YEAR = {1995},
  POSTSCRIPT = {http://www.dlsi.ua.es/~carrasco/papers/nc95.ps.gz},
  ABSTRACT = { A modified version of the real-time recurrent learning
                  (RTRL) algorithm used to train 2ORNNs, than learns the
                  initial state in addition to the weights improves the
                  learning of regular languages when the size of the network
                  is small.}
}

@ARTICLE{prl:Carrasco+Forcada:1995,
  AUTHOR = {Rafael C. Carrasco and Mikel L. Forcada},
  JOURNAL = {Pattern Recognition Letters},
  TITLE = {A note on the {Nagendraprasad-Wang-Gupta} thinning
                  algorithm},
  VOLUME = {16},
  NUMBER = {5},
  YEAR = {1995},
  PAGES = {539--541},
  PDF = {http://www.dlsi.ua.es/~carrasco/papers/prl95.pdf},
  ABSTRACT = {A symmetrized version of the Nagendraprasad-Wang-Gupta
                  thinning algorithm produces simpler and more elegant
                  skeletons of handwritten characters at zero extra
                  computational cost.}
}

@ARTICLE{Carrasco:1994a,
  AUTHOR = {R. C. Carrasco},
  TITLE = {Nuclear {Compton} scattering in the delta resonance region},
  JOURNAL = {Anales de Física},
  VOLUME = {90},
  YEAR = {1994},
  PAGES = {8-16},
  ABSTRACT = {The resonant amplitude and the imaginary part of the Compton
                  amplitude are calculated using microscopic many body
                  methods. The real part of the background is computed using
                  dispersion relations.}
}

@ARTICLE{Carrasco:1994b,
  AUTHOR = {R. C. Carrasco and M. J. Vicente Vacas and E. Oset},
  TITLE = {Inclusive (gamma, N), (gamma, N N) and (gamma, N pi)
                  reactions in nuclei at intermediate-energies},
  JOURNAL = {Nucl. Phys.},
  VOLUME = {A570},
  YEAR = {1994},
  PAGES = {701-721},
  ABSTRACT = {Differential cross sections of nucleons excited in
                  photonuclear reactions are studied by considering all
                  relevant reaction mechanisms. Also cross sections for
                  nucleon emission in coincidence with one pion are
                  calculated.}
}

@ARTICLE{Carrasco:1993a,
  AUTHOR = {R. C. Carrasco},
  TITLE = {Inclusive eta photoproduction in nuclei},
  JOURNAL = {Phys. Rev.},
  VOLUME = {C48},
  YEAR = {1993},
  PAGES = {2333-2339},
  ABSTRACT = {A local model for the nuclear modifications to the
                  photoproduction of eta mesons through the N*(1535) resonance
                  predicts that the cross section for different nuclei behaves
                  like $A^\alpha$ whith alpha approximately 0.6}
}

@ARTICLE{Nieves:1993,
  AUTHOR = {J. Nieves and E. Oset and R. C. Carrasco},
  TITLE = {Deeply bound pionic atoms with resonant Compton scattering},
  JOURNAL = {Nucl. Phys.},
  VOLUME = {A565},
  YEAR = {1993},
  PAGES = {785-796},
  ABSTRACT = {We study the contribution to the Compton nuclear scattering
                  of the resonant channel (A'pi-) when a negative charge pion
                  is bound in the nucleus}
}

@ARTICLE{Carrasco:1993b,
  AUTHOR = {R. C. Carrasco and J.M. Nieves and E. Oset},
  TITLE = {Coherent (gamma, pi0) photoproduction in a local
                  approximation to the {Delta-hole} model},
  JOURNAL = {Nucl. Phys.},
  VOLUME = {A565},
  YEAR = {1993},
  PAGES = {797-817},
  ABSTRACT = {We develop a local approximation to the Delta-hole model for
                  coherent pi0 photoproduction and apply it to the calculation
                  of cross sections in heavy nuclei, where traditional
                  approaches are unfeasible}
}

@ARTICLE{Carrasco:1992a,
  AUTHOR = {R. C. Carrasco and L.L. Salcedo and E. Oset},
  TITLE = {Inclusive (gamma, pi) reactions in nuclei},
  JOURNAL = {Nucl. Phys.},
  VOLUME = {A541},
  YEAR = {1992},
  PAGES = {585-622},
  ABSTRACT = {Double differential cross sections for inclusive (gamma,pi)
                  reactions in nuclei are computed using a microscopic
                  approach based on local models and many body quantum
                  theory. All relevant mechanism and final state interactions
                  are taken into account.}
}

@ARTICLE{Carrasco:1992b,
  AUTHOR = {R. C. Carrasco and E. Oset},
  TITLE = {Interaction of real photons with nuclei from {100-MEV} to
                  500-{MEV}},
  JOURNAL = {Nucl. Phys.},
  VOLUME = {A536},
  YEAR = {1992},
  PAGES = {445-588},
  ABSTRACT = {A systematic many body expansion in the number of
                  particle-hole excitations is developed. We use effective
                  model for the basic interactions and local models to take
                  into account the nuclear medium effect.}
}

@ARTICLE{Carrasco:1992c,
  AUTHOR = {R. C. Carrasco and E. Oset},
  TITLE = {Enhancement of the nuclear dipole sum rule: a microscopic
                  approach},
  JOURNAL = {Phys. Rev.},
  VOLUME = {C45},
  YEAR = {1992},
  PAGES = {764-770},
  ABSTRACT = {The use of local models to study the nuclear dipole sum rule
                  allows one to separate different contributions o this
                  magnitude. This provides us with a deeper insight of this
                  sum rule.}
}

@ARTICLE{Chiang:1990,
  AUTHOR = {H. C. Chiang and E. Oset and R. C. Carrasco and J. M. Nieves
                  and J. Navarro},
  TITLE = {Inclusive radiative pion capture in nuclei},
  JOURNAL = {Nucl. Phys.},
  VOLUME = {A510},
  YEAR = {1990},
  PAGES = {573-590},
  ABSTRACT = {The problem of inclusive radiative pion capture in nuclei is
                  reanalyzed from a many body point of view.}
}