Conf: CIAA/FSMNLP 2011, July 12-16, 2011, Blois, France

Fri May 27 20:25:48 UTC 2011

Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 18:42:45 +0200
From: CIAA-FSMNLP-2011 <ciaa-fsmnlp-2011 at univ-tours.fr>
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Joint event:

16th International Conference on Implementation and Application of
Automata

9th International Workshop on Finite State Methods and Natural
Language Processing

                         CIAA and FSMNLP 2011

                  FIRST   CALL   FOR   PARTICIPATION

Universite Francois Rabelais Tours, Blois, France

July 12-16, 2011

http://ciaa-fsmnlp-2011.univ-tours.fr

Early registration deadline: June 20, 2011

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The CIAA and FSMNLP conferences have been important international
meetings for researchers and practitioners interested in various
aspects of finite-state tools. These two events, which deal with
complementary topics, will be, for the first time, organised jointly
in Blois, France in 2011.

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

CIAA:
* Markus HOLZER, Justus-Liebig-Universitaet Giessen, Germany
   Title to be defined

FSMNLP:
* Mark-Jan NEDERHOF, University of St Andrews, Scotland
   "Generalisation of the prefix probability of probabilistic
   grammars"

Both conferences:
* Sheng YU, University of Western Ontario, Canada
   A talk in honour of Derick Wood
* Joachim NIEHREN, INRIA, Lille, France
   "XPath Streaming by Tree Automata"

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PROGRAM

CIAA/FSMNLP preliminary programme
http://ciaa-fsmnlp-2011.univ-tours.fr/ciaa/page.php?id=43&nom=program

Accepted contributions:
CIAA: http://ciaa-fsmnlp-2011.univ-tours.fr/ciaa/page.php?id=41&nom=acceptedciaa
FSMNLP: on-line soon

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REGISTRATION

On-line registration:
http://ciaa-fsmnlp-2011.univ-tours.fr/ciaa/page.php?id=17&nom=registration

Registration fees:

     * Early registration (before or on June 20)
           Regular CIAA-only   300 EUR
           Regular FSMNLP-only 300 EUR
           Regular CIAA+FSMNLP 350 EUR
           Student CIAA-only   230 EUR
           Student FSMNLP-only 230 EUR
           Student CIAA+FSMNLP 260 EUR

     * Late registration (after June 20)
           Regular CIAA-only   350 EUR
           Regular FSMNLP-only 350 EUR
           Regular CIAA+FSMNLP 400 EUR
           Student CIAA-only   280 EUR
           Student FSMNLP-only 280 EUR
           Student CIAA+FSMNLP 310 EUR

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ACCOMODATION

Please note that the Loire-Valley region, including Blois, is an
important tourist destination in summer.
Therefore you are encouraged to book your hotel rooms as soon as
possible.
A list of recommended hotels in accessible at:
http://ciaa-fsmnlp-2011.univ-tours.fr/ciaa/page.php?id=23&nom=accomodation

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SOCIAL EVENTS

* Guided tour to the Blois chateau
* Excursion to Chaumont sur Loire (chateau and International Garden
  Festival)
* Gala dinner in the Blois chateau
* Sound-and-light performance in the Blois chateau

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TOPICS

CIAA invites papers on all aspects of implementation,
application, and theory of automata and related structures, including
but not limited to:
     * Bioinformatics
     * Complexity of automata operations
     * Compilers
     * Computer-aided verification
     * Concurrency
     * Data structure design for automata
     * Data and image compression
     * Design and architecture of automata software
     * Digital libraries
     * DNA/molecular/membrane computing
     * Document engineering
     * Editors, environments
     * Experimental studies and practical experiences
     * Industrial applications
     * Natural language and speech processing
     * Networking
     * New algorithms for manipulating automata
     * Object-oriented modeling
     * Pattern-matching
     * Quantum computing
     * Structured and semi-structured documents
     * Symbolic manipulation environments for automata
     * Techniques for graphical display of automata
     * VLSI
     * Viruses, related phenomena

FSMNLP invites papers related to themes including but not limited to:
     * NLP applications and linguistic aspects of finite-state methods
     * Finite-state models of language
     * Practices for building lexical transducers for the world's
       languages
     * Specification and implementation of sets, relations and
       multiplicities in NLP using finite-state devices
     * Machine learning of finite-state models of natural language
     * Finite-state manipulation software (with relevance to NLP)

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SCIENTIFIC SPONSORSHIP

The CIAA/FSMNLP 2011 conference is supported by:
- the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS),
- the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) via the Special
  Interest Group on Finite State Methods (SIG FSM).

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PREVIOUS EDITIONS

Fifteen previous CIAA conferences took place in: Winnipeg (2010),
Sydney (2009), San Francisco (2008), Prague (2007), Taipei (2006),
Nice (2005), Kingston (2004), Santa Barbara (2003), Tours (2002),
Pretoria (2001), London Ontario (2000), Potsdam (WIA'99), Rouen
(WIA'98), London Ontario (WIA'97), London Ontario (WIA'96). See the
conference site (http://tln.li.univ-tours.fr/ciaa/) for archives on
these previous editions.

Eight FSMNLP workshops have been organised in the past in:
Pretoria (2009), Ispra (2008), Potsdam (2007), Helsinki (2005),
Budapest (2003), Helsinki (2001), Ankara (1998), Budapest (1996).

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RELATED EVENTS

CIAA/FSMNLP 2010 will be organized shortly before two other
conferences on related subjects:
- DLT 2011 (July 19-22, Milan, Italy) and
- DCFS 2011 (July 25-27, Giessen, Germany).
These consecutive periods, as well as the European locations,
facilitate the attendance at all three conferences.

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Jean-Yves Antoine (Universite Francois Rabelais Tours, France)
Béatrice Bouchou-Markhoff (Universite Francois Rabelais Tours, France)
Pascal Caron (Universite de Rouen, France)
Jean-Marc Champarnaud (Universite de Rouen, France)
Matthieu Constant (Universite Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallee, France), FSMNLP chair
Nathalie Friburger (Universite Francois Rabelais Tours, France)
Mirian Halfeld Ferrari Alves (Universite d'Orleans, France)
Aurore Leroy (Universite Francois Rabelais Tours, France)
Andreas Maletti (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Patrick Marcel (Universite Francois Rabelais Tours, France)
Denis Maurel (Universite Francois Rabelais Tours, France)
Veronika Peralta (Universite Francois Rabelais Tours, France)
Yacine Sam (Universite Francois Rabelais Tours, France)
Agata Savary (Universite Francois Rabelais Tours, France), CIAA chair

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CIAA PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Marie-Pierre Beal (Universite Paris Est, France)
Béatrice Bouchou-Markhoff (Universite François Rabelais Tours, France), co-chair
Cezar Campeanu (University of Prince Edward Island, Canada)
Pascal Caron (Universite de Rouen, France)
Jean-Marc Champarnaud (Universite de Rouen, France), co-chair
Michael Domaratzki (University of Manitoba, Canada)
Dora Giammarresi (University of Roma, Italy)
Yo-Sub Han (Yonsei University, South Korea)
Tero Harju (University of Turku, Finland)
Jan Holub (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic)
Markus Holzer (Justus-Liebig-Universitaet Giessen, Germany)
Oscar Ibarra (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Masami Ito (Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan)
Stavros Konstantinidis (University of Halifax, Canada)
Martin Kutrib (University of Giessen, Germany)
Andreas Maletti (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Sebastian Maneth (NICTA and University of New South Wales, Australia)
Denis Maurel (Université Francois Rabelais Tours, France), co-chair
Ian McQuillan (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
Mehryar Mohri (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, USA)
Alexander Okhotin (University of Turku, Finland)
Andrei Paun (Louisiana Tech University, USA; University of Bucharest, Romania)
Giovanni Pighizzini (Universitat degli Studi di Milano, Italy)
Bala Ravikumar (Sonoma State University, USA)
Rogerio Reis (Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
Kai Salomaa (Queen's University, Kingston, Canada)
Colin Sterling (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
Bruce Watson (University of Pretoria; Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
Hsu-Chun Yen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Sheng Yu (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
Djelloul Ziadi (Université de Rouen, France)

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FSMNLP PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Cyril Allauzen (Google Inc., New York, USA)
Francisco Casacuberta (Instituto Tecnologico De Informatica, Valencia, Spain)
Damir Cavar (University of Zadar, Croatia)
David Chiang (ISI, University of Southern California, USA)
Maxime Crochemore (King's College London, United-Kingdom)
Jan Daciuk (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland)
Frank Drewes (Umea University, Sweden)
Dafydd Gibbon (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
Thomas Hanneforth (University of Potsdam, Germany)
Colin de la Higuera (University of Nantes, France)
Jan Holub (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic)
Andre Kempe (CADEGE Technologies & Consulting, France)
Andras Kornai (Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary)
Derrick Kourie (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
Eric Laporte (Universite Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallee, France)
Sylvain Lombardy (Universite Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallee, France)
Andreas Maletti (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Mike Maxwell (University of Maryland, USA)
Kemal Oflazer (Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar)
Jakub Piskorski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland)
Laurette Pretorius  (University of South Africa, South Africa)
Strahil Ristov (Ruder Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia)
Jim Rogers (Earlham College, Richmond, USA)
Giorgio Satta (University of Padua, Italy)
Max Silberztein (Universite de Franche-Comte, France)
Bruce Watson (Universities of Pretoria and Stellenbosch, South Africa)
Anssi Yli-Jyra (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Sheng Yu (The University of Western Ontario, Canada)
Menno van Zaanen (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
Lynette van Zijl (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)

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