Corpora: Journal NLE: special issue FSMNLP, call for papers

[Noord G.J.M. van]

			CALL FOR PAPERS
	SPECIAL ISSUE of NATURAL LANGUAGE ENGINEERING


     Finite State Methods in Natural Language Processing 



GUEST EDITORS
Lauri Karttunen, Xerox PARC and RXRC
Kimmo Koskenniemi, University of Helsinki
Gertjan van Noord, University of Groningen


Finite state methods are used in various areas of linguistic
computation, including tokenization, lexicography, spell checking,
part of speech tagging, speech recognition, grapheme to phoneme
conversion, computational phonology and morphology, as well as
computational syntax.

In recent years the use of finite state methods has increased both in
practical applications (such as in morphological analyzers for a
variety of languages), as well as in more theoretical approaches (such
as in recent attempts to formalize optimality-theoretic analyses in
phonology by finite-state means).

A series of workshops have been organised in the past around this
theme (Budapest 1996, Ankara 1998, Helsinki 2001).  The Budapest
workshop led to an earlier, similar, special issue of NLE (NLE 2(4),
1996), edited by Andràs Kornai. 

The current initiative originated at the workshop `Finite State
Methods in NLP', and a related event entitled `Twenty Years of
Two-level Morphology'. Both events were organised in connection with
ESSLLI, Helsinki, august 2001. http://www.helsinki.fi/esslli/
Contributors of these events are encouraged to submit full articles
based on their abstracts. In addition, we welcome contributions from
other researchers.


SCHEDULE

	Call for papers issued:   1 December 2001
	Papers due:               1 April 2002
	Notification to authors:  1 June 2002
	Final versions due:       1 November 2002
	Publication:              1 March 2003


SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Initial submissions should be sent electronically in PDF format to 

        Gertjan van Noord
        vannoord at let.rug.nl


Formatting instructions for final submissions are available from the 
journal's homepage, which is available via 

        http://us.cambridge.org/




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