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Tree Adjoining Grammars, Language Bias, and Genetic Programming

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In this paper, we introduce a new grammar guided genetic programming system called tree-adjoining grammar guided genetic programming (TAG3P+), where tree-adjoining grammars (TAGs) are used as means to set language bias for genetic programming. We show that the capability of TAGs in handling context-sensitive information and categories can be useful to set a language bias that cannot be specified in grammar guided genetic programming. Moreover, we bias the genetic operators to preserve the language bias during the evolutionary process. The results pace the way towards a better understanding of the importance of bias in genetic programming.

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  1. School of Computer Science, Australian Defence Force Academy, ACT 2600, Australia

    Nguyen Xuan Hoai, R.I. McKay & H.A. Abbass

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  1. Computer Science and Information Systems, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

    Conor Ryan

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Idaho, 83844-1010, Moscow, ID, USA

    Terence Soule

  3. Department of Computer Science, Free University of Amsterdam, 1081, HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Maarten Keijzer

  4. Department of Computer Science, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, CO4 3SQ, Colchester, UK

    Edward Tsang  & Riccardo Poli  & 

  5. Department of Computer Science, University of Coimbra, Polo II, Pinhal Marrocos, 3030-290, Coimbra, Portugal

    Ernesto Costa

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Hoai, N.X., McKay, R., Abbass, H. (2003). Tree Adjoining Grammars, Language Bias, and Genetic Programming. In: Ryan, C., Soule, T., Keijzer, M., Tsang, E., Poli, R., Costa, E. (eds) Genetic Programming. EuroGP 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2610. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36599-0_31

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