7. FSMNLP 2008: Ispra, Italy

Jakub Piskorski, Bruce W. Watson, Anssi Yli-Jyrä (Eds.): Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing, 7th International Workshop, FSMNLP 2007, Ispra, Italy, September 11-12, 2008. Post-proceedings. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications 19 IOS Press 2009, ISBN 978-1-58603-975-2

Invited Lectures

Kimmo Koskenniemi, Anssi Yli-Jyrä:
CLARIN and Free Open Source Finite-State Tools. 3-13
Corinna Cortes, Mehryar Mohri:
Learning with Weighted Transducers. 14-22
Wojciech Skut:
Finite-State Machines for Mining Patterns in Very Large Text Repositories. 23

Kenneth R. Beesley:
The Kleene Language for Weighted Finite-State Programming. 27-38
Graeme Blackwood, Adrià de Gispert, Jamie Brunning, William Byrne:
Large-Scale Statistical Machine Translation with Weighted Finite State Transducers. 39-49
Jörg Didakowski, Marko Drotschmann:
Proper Noun Recognition and Classification Using Weighted Finite State Transducers. 50-61
Samuel Eleutério, Elisabete Ranchhod:
Finite-State Local Grammars for Disambiguating Conjunctions in Portuguese Proper Names. 62-71
Thomas Hanneforth:
A Memory-efficient epsilon-Removal Algorithm for Weighted Acyclic Finite-State Automata. 72-81
Mans Hulden:
Regular Expressions and Predicate Logic in Finite-State Language Processing. 82-97
Anna Kasprzik:
Making Finite-State Methods Applicable to Languages Beyond Context-Freeness via Multi-dimensional Trees. 98-109
Slim Mesfar, Max Silberztein:
Transducer Minimization and Information Compression for NooJ Dictionaries. 110-121
Jyrki Niemi, Kimmo Koskenniemi:
Representing and Combining Calendar Information by Using Finite-State Transducers. 122-133
Wolfgang Seeker, Daniel Quernheim:
Optimality Theory and Vector Semirings. 134-145
Lamia Tounsi, Béatrice Bouchou, Denis Maurel:
A Compression Method for Natural Language Automata. 146-157
Vanni Zavarella, Hristo Tanev, Jakub Piskorski:
Event Extraction for Italian Using a Cascade of Finite-State Grammars. 158-171

Domenico Cantone, Salvatore Cristofaro, Simone Faro, Emanuele Giaquinta:
Finite State Models for the Generation of Large Corpora of Natural Language Texts. 175-182
Damir Cavar, Ivo-Pavao Jazbec, Tomislav Stojanov:
CroMo - Morphological Analysis for Standard Croatian and its Synchronic and Diachronic Dialects and Variants. 183-190
Loek G. Cleophas:
Forest FIRE and FIRE Wood: Tools for Tree Automata and Tree Algorithms. 191-198
Akim Demaille, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, Florian Lesaint, Sylvain Lombardy, Jacques Sakarovitch, Florent Terrones:
An XML Format Proposal for the Description of Weighted Automata, Transducers and Regular Expressions. 199-206
Mans Hulden, Shannon T. Bischoff:
A Simple Formalism for Capturing Reduplication in Finite-State Morphology. 207-214
Jalal Maleki, Maziar Yaesoubi, Lars Ahrenberg:
Applying Finite State Morphology to Conversion Between Roman and Perso-Arabic Writing Systems. 215-223
Andrea Zielinski, Christian Simon:
Morphisto - An Open Source Morphological Analyzer for German. 224-231