Aug 11 (Sunday) morning: Statistical approaches and learning


8:15 - 9:00 Frederick Jelinek: Language modeling for speech recognition. Comments by Mehryar Mohri.
9:00 - 9:45 Richard Sproat: Multilingual text analysis for text-to-speech synthesis. Comments by Kimmo Koskenniemi.
9:45 - 10:30 Mehryar Mohri, Fernando Pereira and Michael Riley: Weighted automata in text and speech processing. Comments by András Kornai.

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:30 Srinivas Banglore: Explanation-based learning and finite state transducers: Applications to parsing lexicalized tree adjoining grammars.
11:30 - 12:00 J.M. Vilar, E. Vidal & J.C. Amengual: Learning extended finite state models for language translation
12:00 - 12:30 Richard Oehrle: Finite-state methods, binding, and anaphora

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

Aug 11 (Sunday) afternoon: Formal models


14:00 - 14:45 Eberhard Bertsch & Mark-Jan Nederhof: An innovative finite-state concept for recognition and parsing of context-free languages. Comments by Aravind Joshi.
14:45 - 15:30 Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú: Colonies: a multi-agent approach to language generation. Comments by Mark-Jan Nederhof

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break

16:30 - 17:00 Catherine Rood (University of Cambridge): Efficient finite-state approximation of context free grammars
17:00 - 17:30 Lauri Karttunen: Regular expressions for finite-state syntactic description

Aug 11 (Sunday) evening

Workshop social event: dinner at the FÉSZEK club. ECCAI does not pay for this, sorry. FÉSZEK (the word means `nest', the acronym stands for "painters, singers, sculptors, and sundry comedians") is the traditional artists' club in Budapest, usually not open to the public. It is located at the corner of Dob utca and Kertész utca -- for the adventurous instructions will be provided how to reach it by public transportation, the less adventurous should take a cab.

Aug 12 (Monday) morning: Parsing -- theory and tools

8:15 - 9:00 Aravind Joshi: A parser from antiquity: An early application of finite state transducers to natural language parsing. Comments by Lauri Karttunen
9:00 - 9:45 Emmanuel Roche: Finite-state transducers: parsing free and frozen sentences. Comments by Richard Sproat
9:45 - 10:30 Bruce Watson: Implementing and using finite automata toolkits. Comments by Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:30 Jean-Pierre Chanod & Pasi Tapanainen: A non-deterministic tokeniser for finite-state parsing
11:30 - 12:00 Gregory Grefenstette: Light parsing as finite-state filtering
12:00 - 12:30 Anne Schiller: Multilingual finite-state noun phrase extraction

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

Aug 12 (Monday) afternoon: Information retrieval and discourse

14:00 - 14:45 Kimmo Koskenniemi: Finite-state morphology and information retrieval. Comments by Eva Ejerhed.
14:45 - 15:30 András Kornai: Vectorized Finite State Automata. Comments by Emmanuel Roche.

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break

16:30 - 17:00 Eva Ejerhed: Finite state segmentation of discourse into clauses
17:00 - 17:30 Wojciech Skut: Finite automata for processing word order
17:30 - 18:00 Masakazu Tateno, Hiroshi Masuichi and Hiroshi Umemoto: The Japanese lexical transducer based on stem-suffix style forms

18:00 - 19:00 General discussion

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