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The 11th International Conference on Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing
Held at the Gateway, St Andrews, Scotland (UK), July 15-17, 2013.
Sunday
| 18:00-19:00 | Wine reception in the Gateway |
Monday
| 8:30-9:20 | Registration |
| 9:20-9:30 | Opening |
| 9:30-10:30 | Keynote lecture:
Towards a theory of context-free languages Alexander Clark (King's College London) |
| 10:30-11:00 | Break |
| 11:00-11:30 | Computing the most probable string
with a probabilistic finite state machine Colin de la Higuera and Jose Oncina |
| 11:30-12:00 | Stochastic bi-languages to model dialogs M. Inés Torres |
| 12:00-12:30 | ZeuScansion: a tool for scansion of English poetry Manex Agirrezabal, Bertol Arrieta, Aitzol Astigarraga and Mans Hulden |
| 12:30-13:15 | Lunch |
| 13:15-14:00 | Business meeting |
| 14:00-14:20 | A convexity-based
generalization of Viterbi for non-deterministic weighted automata Marc Dymetman |
| 14:20-14:40 | Processing structured
input with skipping nested automata Dominika Pawlik, Aleksander Zabłocki and Bartosz Zaborowski |
| 14:40-15:00 | Synchronous regular
relations and morphological analysis Christian Wurm and Younes Samih |
| 15:00-15:30 | Break/posters/demos |
| 15:30-16:30 | Tutorial:
Experimenting with finite state automata in GAP Ruth Hoffmann (University of St Andrews) |
Tuesday
| 9:00-10:00 | Keynote lecture:
Pushdown Automata
in Statistical Machine Translation Bill Byrne (University of Cambridge) |
| 10:00-10:20 | Parsing morphologically
complex words Kay-Michael Würzner and Thomas Hanneforth |
| 10:20-10:40 | Optimizing rule-based
morphosyntactic analysis of richly inflected languages —
a Polish example Dominika Pawlik, Aleksander Zabłocki and Bartosz Zaborowski |
| 10:40-11:00 | Finite state morphology
tool for Latvian Daiga Deksne |
| 11:00-11:30 | Break/posters/demos |
| 11:30-12:00 | Modeling graph languages with
grammars extracted via tree decompositions Bevan Keeley Jones, Sharon Goldwater and Mark Johnson |
| 12:00-12:30 | Finite state methods and description logics Tim Fernando |
| 12:30-13:00 | Using NooJ for semantic annotation of
Italian language corpora in the domain of motion: a cognitive-grounded approach Edoardo Salza |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:15-16:30 | Guided walk and visit of MUSA |
| 18:15-21:00 | Conference dinner in Lower College Hall and (for those who wish) a concert in St Salvator's Chapel |
Wednesday
| 9:00-11:00 | Tutorial:
Variational inference for tree automata and tree transducers Bevan Jones (University of Edinburgh) |
| 11:00-11:30 | Break |
| 11:30-12:00 | Multi-threaded composition
of finite-state automata Bryan Jurish and Kay-Michael Würzner |
| 12:00-12:30 | On finite-state tonology
with autosegmental representations Anssi Yli-Jyrä |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30-13:50 | A finite-state approach
to translate SNOMED CT terms into Basque using medical prefixes and suffixes Olatz Perez-de-Viñaspre, Maite Oronoz, Manex Agirrezabal and Mikel Lersundi |
| 13:50-14:10 | Syncretism and how to
deal with it in a morphological analyzer: a German example Katina Bontcheva |
| 14:10-14:30 | Finite state approach to
the Kazakh nominal paradigm Bakyt M. Kairakbay and David L. Zaurbekov |
| 14:30-15:00 | Break/posters/demos |
| 15:00-17:00 | Tutorial:
Algorithms and complexity of analyzing unrestricted
stochastic context-free grammars Kousha Etessami (University of Edinburgh) |
| 17:00-17:10 | Closing |