Workshop on
Extended finite state models of language


August 11-12, 1996

ECAI '96, Budapest, Hungary


Organizing Committee

Chair: Prof. Eva Ejerhed, Umea University
Department of Linguistics
University of Umea
90187 Umea, Sweden
Tel: 46 (0)90 - 16 56 77
Email: ejerhed@ling.umu.se

Members: Prof. Frederic Jelinek, Johns Hopkins University
Center for Language and Speech Processing,
Barton Hall,
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD, 21210
Tel: (410) 516-7730
Fax: (410) 516-5050
Email: jelinek@cspjhu.ece.jhu.edu

Dr. Lauri Karttunen, Xerox PARC and Xerox Research Center Europe
Rank Xerox Research Centre
6, chemin de Maupertuis
F-38240 Meylan, France
Tel: 33-76-61 50 95
Fax: 33-76-61 50 99
Email: Lauri.Karttunen@xerox.fr

András Kornai
BBN Technologies
70 Fawcett Street
Cambridge MA 02138
Tel: (617) 873-2470
Fax: (617) 873-2534
Email: andras@kornai.com


Goals

In spite of the wide availability of more powerful (context-free, mildly context-sensitive, and even Turing-equivalent) formalisms, the bulk of the applied work on language and sublanguage modeling, especially for the purposes of recognition and topic search, is still performed by various finite state methods. In fact, the use of such methods in research labs as well as in applied work actually increased in the past five years. The goal of the workshop is to bring together those developing and using extended finite state methods to text analysis, speech/OCR language modeling, and related CL and NLP tasks with those in AI and CS interested in analyzing and possibly extending the domain of finite-state algorithms.

Format

To encourage a workshop atmosphere, main papers (25 minutes) will be followed by commentaries (10 minutes) and 10 minutes of open discussion. Altogether, we will have 21 papers and 10 commentaries. Local arrangements and the schedule have been finalized.

Confirmed papers

Confirmed papers


Schedule

Workshop schedule


Local information

Local information


Hard copy

The papers (but not the commentaries presented here) were published for the workshop by the von Neumann Society of Computer Science See the Table of Contents ps pdf Copies may still be available -- write to NJSZT, Báthori u. 16, H-1054 Budapest, Hungary. The material is also available on the workshop web page


Copyright

The papers and the commentaries presented here are copyright (c) 1996 of their respective authors.


Of related interest: First Workshop on Implementing Automata

Last update: August 6 1996


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