Finite state methods are used in various areas of linguistic computation, including tokenization, lexicography, spell checking, part of speech tagging, speech recognition, grapheme to phoneme conversion, computational phonology and morphology, as well as computational syntax.
In recent years the use of finite state methods has increased both in practical applications (such as in morphological analyzers for a variety of languages), as well as in more theoretical approaches (such as in recent attempts to formalize optimality-theoretic analyses in phonology by finite-state means).
The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers and Ph.D. students working with finite-state methods within natural language processing and computational linguistics.
The workshop belongs to the program of the 13th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) which is organized at the University of Helsinki from August 13 until August 24, 2001 (see the home page http://www.helsinki.fi/esslli for more information).
|Monday August 20|
|14.00||14.45||Jason Eisner||Expectation Semirings: flexible EM for Finite-state Transducers||abstract|
|14.45||15.30||Nathan Vaillette||Logical Specification of Transducers for NLP||abstract|
|Tuesday August 21|
|14.00||14.30||Anssi Yli-Jyrä||Structural Correspondence between Finite-State Intersection Grammar and Constraint Satisfaction Problem||abstract|
|14.30||15.00||Yasemin Altun and Mark Johnson||Inducing SFA with Epsilon-transitions Using Minimum Description Length||abstract|
|15.00||15.30||Jan Daciuk||Computer Assisted Enlargement of Morphological Dictionaries||abstract|
|Wednesday August 22|
|14.00||14.45||Gosse Bouma||Finite State Methods for Hyphenation||abstract|
|14.45||15.30||Gerhard Jaeger||Gradient Constraints in Finite State OT: the Unidirectional and the Bidirectional Case||abstract|
|Thursday August 23|
|14.00||14.45||Bruce Watson||An incremental DFA minimization algorithm||abstract|
|14.45||15.30||Thilo Goetz and Holger Wunsch||An Abstract Machine Approach to Finite State Transduction over Large Character Sets||abstract|
|Friday August 24|
|14.00||14.45||I.Aldezabal, M.Aranzabe, A.Atutxa, K.Gojenola, M.Oronoz, K.Sarasola||Application of Finite State Transducers to the Acquisition of Verb Subcategorization Information||abstract|
|14.45||15.30||Michael Johnston and Srinivas Bangalore||Finite State Methods for Multimodal Parsing and Integration||abstract|
The workshop is co-financed by the NWO PIONIER project Algorithms for Linguistic Processing.