Workshop on
Finite-State Techniques and Approximate Search

September 30th, 2007, Borovetz, Bulgaria

http://lml.bas.bg/~stoyan/fstas

Scope

Finite State methods are widely used in the area of NLP. Recent advances in the area provided highly efficient and scalable techniques for various difficult problems like representing ultra large dictionaries, complex contextual rewrite rules, approximate search in huge dictionaries and many others.

The goal of the workshop is to study the problems encountered in applying Finite State methods in the NLP area in general and more specifically for error detection and correction, text rewriting and dictionary representation. We hope that the workshop will allow researchers to present current research and development in addressing this challenge.

Topics of Interest (not limited to)

WORKSHOP PROGRAMME

10.00 - 10.15 Opening remarks
10.15 - 11.00 Clemens MARSCHNER: Efficient Matching Using Overlay Transducers
11.00 - 11.45 Ivan PEIKOV: Rule Definition Language and a Bimachine Compiler
11.45 - 12.00 Coffee break
12.00 - 12.45 Kalin GEORGIEV: Compression of Minimal Acyclic Deterministic FSAs Preservingthe Linear Accepting Complexity
12.45 - 14.00 Lunch break
14.00 - 14.45 Andreas W. HAUSER and Klaus U. SCHULZ: Unsupervised Learning of Edit Distance Weights for Retrieving Historical Spelling Variations
14.45 - 15.30 Stoyan MIHOV, Petar MITANKIN, Annette GOTSCHAREK, Ulrich REFFLE, Klaus U. SCHULZ and Christoph RINGLSTETTER: Tuning the Selection of Correction Candidates for Garbled Tokens using Error Dictionaries
15.30 - 15.45 Coffee break
15.45 - 16.30 Petar MITANKIN: Approximate Word Matching with Synchronized Rational Relations
16.30 - 17.00 Discussion and closing remarks

Submission Guidelines

Authors are asked to submit papers in electronic form (PS or PDF) to: fstas@lml.bas.bg

There will be no page limitation, however, a default value for the length is 5-15 pages. For longer papers, a clear motivation is needed. Papers may represent ongoing and unfinished work.

Workshop Proceedings

All papers presented at the workshop will be published in the workshop proceedings.

Important Dates

Organizing Committee

Stoyan Mihov, IPP - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Petar Mitankin, IPP - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Klaus U. Schulz, CIS – University of Munich (LMU)

Program Committee

Svetla Koeva, IBL - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Christoph Ringlstetter, AICML - University of Alberta
Venkata Subramaniam, IBM India Res. Lab. (India)
Tinko Tinchev, FMI - Sofia University

Contact: fstas@lml.bas.bg