Hi all,
I've just received a notice on this International Workshop, in
case some of you are insterested. Sorry if this was previously
announced in the list. More info at...
http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/fsmnlp2012/
Best,
Juan Pablo
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The 10th edition of the International Workshop on Finite State
Methods
and Natural Language Processing 2012 - FSMNLP 2012 Donostia -
San
Sebastian
July 23-25, 2012
INTRODUCTION
The International Workshop Series of Finite-State Methods and
Natural
Language Processing (FSMNLP) is the premier forum of the ACL Special
Interest Group on Finite-State Methods (SIGFSM). It serves
researchers and practitioners working on
- natural language processing (NLP) applications or language
resources
- theoretical and implementation aspects, or
- their combinations
that have obvious relevance or an explicitly discussed relation to
Finite-State Methods in NLP.
This year, the Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing
(FSMNLP) workshop is part of the
Alan Turing Year on the occasion of the Centenary Celebration
of his
life and work.
TOPICS
FSMNLP invites papers related to themes including but not
limited
to:
- NLP applications and linguistic aspects of finite-state methods
- Finite-state models of language
- Practices for building morphological models for the world's
languages
using finite-state technology
- Machine learning of finite-state models of natural language
- Finite-state manipulation software and tools with relevance to
NLP
SPECIAL THEME: FINITE-STATE NLP IN PRACTICE
FSMNLP 2012 will have a special focus on the following topics:
- Practical implementations of linguistic descriptions with
finite-state
technology, including grammars, machine learning tools,
language-specific
challenges to finite-state NLP
- Software tools and utilities for finite-state NLP
- Finite-state models of linguistic theories
- Applications of finite-state-based NLP in closely related fields
such
as comparative linguistics, text processing, field linguistics,
applied
linguistics, language teaching, and computer-aided translation.
The special theme does not restrict the scope of papers; rather, the
purpose is to attract, apart from other topics, a variety of
submissions
relating to any practical dimension of finite-state NLP. Especially
welcome are succinct short paper submissions focused on some
specific
practical aspect or solution of finite-state NLP. This could be
related
to e.g. a grammar, a linguistic phenomenon, a linguistic modeling
problem, a machine learning problem, a software tool that implements
or
uses finite-state technology, etc. We hope that the theme provides
us
with the possibility of organizing suitable poster, short
presentation,
and demo sessions related to particular practical problems.
For example, today, a large number of languages have
morphological/phonological models based on finite-state technology.
While most such implementations follow standard design patterns,
many
grammars also contain elegant non-trivial solutions to some
language-specific modeling problem (vowel harmony, reduplication,
long-distance agreement, opaque phonological alternations, free
variation, morphosyntactic restrictions, etc.). For this year's
FSMNLP, we encourage submissions of short papers that focus on
documenting such solutions, and at the same time providing context
by
summarizing the development and implementation of the overall
grammar.
PREVIOUS EDITIONS
Nine FSMNLP workshops have been organized in the past in:
Blois
(2011),
Pretoria (2009),
Ispra
(2008),
Potsdam
(2007),
Helsinki
(2005), Budapest (2003), Helsinki (2001), Ankara (1998), Budapest
(1996).
RELATED EVENTS
FSMNLP 2012 will be organized shortly after
CIAA.
The 17th
International Conference on Implementation and Application of
Automata
(CIAA) will take place in Porto, Portugal on July 17-20, 2012 (800
km
from Donostia-San Sebastián).
These consecutive periods as well as the European locations,
facilitate
the attendance at both conferences.
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