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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
fsmnlp2013@gmail.com
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University of St Andrews