PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS
FSMNLP'98
International Workshop
on
FINITE STATE METHODS
IN
NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
June 29 - July 1, 1998
Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
sponsored by
EACL - European Chapter of the Association for Computational
Linguistics,
TUBITAK- Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council(+)
NATO Science for Stability Program-TU-LANGUAGE Project(+)
SCOPE: Original papers in the theory and applications of finite state
techniques in all aspects of natural language processing including, but
not
limited to: speech, phonology, morphology, tagging, parsing,
information
retrieval, and discourse, are sought.
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PROGRAMME AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
* Lauri Karttunen (Xerox Research Centre Europe, France, Co-Chair)
* Kemal Oflazer (Bilkent University, Turkey, Co-Chair)
* Kenneth R. Beesley (Xerox Research Centre Europe, France)
* Eric Brill (Johns Hopkins University, MD, USA)
* Eva Ejerhed (Umea University, Sweden)
* Jerry Hobbs (SRI International, CA, USA)
* Ronald M. Kaplan (Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, CA, USA)
* Martin Kay (Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, CA, USA)
* George Kiraz (Bell Laboratories, NJ, USA)
* Andras Kornai (BBN, MA, USA)
* Kimmo Koskenniemi (University of Helsinki, Finland)
* Tomasz Kowaltowski (University of Campinas, Brazil)
* Claudio Leonardo Lucchesi ( University of Campinas, Brazil)
* Mehryar Mohri (ATT Labs Research, NJ, USA)
* Mark-Jan Nederhof (University of Groningen,The Netherlands)
* Richard Sproat (Bell Laboratories, NJ, USA)
* Emmanuel Roche (Teragram Corp., MA, USA)
* Yves Schabes (Teragram Corp., MA, USA)
* Gertran Van Noord (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
* Atro Voutilainen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
(+) to be confirmed
IMPORTANT DATES SUBMISSIONS
Jan.16,1998 Submissions Due Electronic submissions are
Mar.16,1998 Authors Notified encouraged. Please limit full
paper
submissions to 12 , and extended
Apr.17,1998 Camera Ready Copies abstracts to 8, single column,
Due single spaced pages. Please submit
postscript files by e-mail to
June 29 - July 1 WORKSHOP
fsmnlp98@cs.bilkent.edu.tr
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with the subject line containing
the
OTHER ACTIVITIES first few words of the paper
title.
We ask that you send postscript
files
The workshop will be held just a few days in advance so that if
after the 7th Turkish Symposium on there are any printing problems,
you
Artificial Intelligence that will may have time to submit a hard
copy
also be held at Bilkent University version. If you prefer hard copy
on June 24-26 1998. submissions, please send 4 copies
of
your manuscript to
If there is sufficient interest,
sightseeing trips to the Museum of FSMNLP'98 Workshop
Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara, Department of Computer Eng.
to the Cappadocia Region known Bilkent University
worldwide for its lunar landscape, Bilkent, ANKARA,
TR-06533,TURKEY
fairy chimneys , underground cities,
and mystical valleys will be
organized during the weekend either case, please send a
between the Symposium and separate e-mail message to
the Workshop. fsmnlp98@cs.bilkent.edu.tr
containing the title, abstract,
keywords for the paper and the
relevant contact information,
with a
subject line similar to above.
ACCOMMODATIONS FURTHER INFORMATION
Bilkent University campus has a 4* Information about the workshop
will be
hotel on the premises. In addition, available at
a number of free lodging facilities
(http://www.nlp.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/fsmnlp98/)
in the University dormitories will
be provided on site for conference and will be updated regularly.
participants. Numerous hotels in
downtown Ankara are also available.