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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION<br>
Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing - FSMNLP 2012<br>
Tenth International Workshop<br>
University of the Basque Country (Miramar Palace), Donostia - San
Sebastián<br>
July 23-25, 2012<br>
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Early registration, June 20:<br>
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PROGRAM<br>
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July 23<br>
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15.00-18.00: TUTORIALS<br>
Spelling and grammar correction with FSTs (Tommi Pirinen/University
of Helsinki, Iñaki Alegria/University of the Basque Country, Mans
Hulden/Ikerbasque (Basque Science Foundation))<br>
Coffee Break<br>
Probabilistic parsing with weighted FSTs (Miikka
Silfverberg/University of Helsinki)<br>
Grapheme-to-phoneme training and conversion with WFSTs (Josef
Novak/The University of Tokyo)<br>
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July 24<br>
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9.00: Opening<br>
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9.30-10.30: Invited Speaker<br>
Kimmo Koskenniemi<br>
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10.30-11.00: Coffee Break<br>
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11.00-12.00: Long Papers I<br>
Effect of Language and Error Models on Efficiency of Finite-State
Spell-Checking and Correction (Tommi Pirinen and Sam Hardwick)<br>
Practical Finite State Optimality Theory (Dale Gerdemann and Mans
Hulden)<br>
12.00-13.00: Short Papers I<br>
Handling Unknown Words in Arabic FST Morphology (Khaled Shaalan and
Mohammed Attia)<br>
Urdu – Roman Transliteration via Finite State Transducers (Tina
Bögel)<br>
Integrating Aspectually Relevant Properties of Verbs into a
Morphological Analyzer for English (Katina Bontcheva)<br>
Finite-State Technology In A Verse-Making Tool (Manex Agirrezabal,
Iñaki Alegria, Bertol Arrieta and Mans Hulden)<br>
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13.00-14.30: Lunch<br>
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14.30-15.30: Short Papers II<br>
DAGGER: A Toolkit for Automata on Directed Acyclic Graphs (Daniel
Quernheim and Kevin Knight)<br>
WFST-Based Grapheme-To-Phoneme Conversion: Open Source Tools for
Alignment, Model-Building and Decoding (Josef Novak, Nobuaki
Minematsu and Keikichi Hirose)<br>
Kleene, A Free and Open-Source Language for Finite-State Programming
(Kenneth R Beesley)<br>
Implementation of Replace Rules using Preference Operator (Senka
Drobac, Miikka Silfverberg and Anssi Yli-Jyrä)<br>
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15.30-16.30: Short Papers III<br>
First Approaches On Spanish Medical Record Classification Using
Diagnostic Term To Class Transduction (Alicia Pérez, Maite Oronoz,
Arantza Casillas, Arantza Díaz de Ilarraza and Koldo Gojenola)<br>
Developing an Open-Source FST Grammar for Verb Chain Transfer in a
Spanish-Basque MT System (Aingeru Mayor, Mans Hulden and Gorka
Labaka) <br>
Conversion of Procedural Morphologies To Finite-State Morphologies:
A Case Study Of Arabic (Mans Hulden and Younes Samih)<br>
A Methodology for Obtaining Concept Graphs from Word Graphs (Marcos
Calvo, Jon Ander Gómez, Lluís-F Hurtado and Emilio Sanchis)<br>
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16.30-18.00: Posters and coffee<br>
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20.30: Dinner (in the Old Town)<br>
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July 25<br>
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9.30-11.00: Long Papers II<br>
A Finite-State Temporal Ontology and Event-Intervals (Tim Fernando)<br>
A Finite-State Approach to Phrase-Based Statistical Machine
Translation (Jorge González)<br>
Finite-State Acoustic and Translation Model Composition in
Statistical Speech Translation: Empirical Assessment (Alicia Pérez,
M. Inés Torres and Francisco Casacuberta)<br>
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11.00-11.30: Coffee Break<br>
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11.30-12.30: Long Papers III<br>
Refining the Design of a Contracting Finite-State Dependency Parser
(Anssi Yli-Jyrä, Jussi Piitulainen and Atro Voutilainen)<br>
Lattice-Based Minimum Error Rate Training using Weighted
Finite-State Transducers with Tropical Polynomial Weights (Aurelien
Waite, Graeme Blackwood and William Byrne)<br>
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12.30-13.30: Business Meeting<br>
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