Corpora: Special Issue CL Journal / Finite State Methods ...

Kemal Oflazer (ko@crl.nmsu.edu)
Tue, 08 Sep 1998 18:02:16 -0600

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COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS

SPECIAL ISSUE

ON

FINITE STATE METHODS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

Recent years has seen a substantial increase in the use of finite state
techniques in many aspects of natural language processing as mature
tools
for building large scale finite-state systems from various research
laboratories and universities become available. This trend was by no
means
foreseen as late as ten years ago given the well-known demonstration by
Noam Chomsky in 1957 that finite-state methods are inherently incapable
of
representing the full richness of constructions in a natural language.
Nevertheless, it is evident now that there are many subsets of natural
language that are adequately covered by finite-state means and that
there
are many other areas where finite-state approximations of more powerful
formalisms are of great practical benefit.

As a follow-up to the FSMNLP'98, International Workshop on Finite
State Methods in Natural Language Processing, it was proposed that a
collection of papers in this area be published as a special issue of
the Computational Linguistics journal. We would to encourage authors
of the papers presented at this workshop, as well as all others who
would like to contribute, to submit full versions of their papers for
consideration for this special issue.

Guest Editors:

Lauri Karttunen (Xerox Research Centre Europe,France)
Kemal Oflazer (Bilkent University, Turkey)

Guest Editorial Board

Eric Brill (Johns Hopkins University, MD, USA)
Eva Ejerhed (Umea University, Sweden)
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)
András Kornai (BBN, MA, USA)
Mehryar Mohri (AT&T Labs Research, NJ, USA)
Mark-Jan Nederhof (DFKI, Germany)
Atro Voutilainen (University of Helsinki, Finland)

Submission Details

Please submit 6 copies of your hard-copy manuscript to

Lauri Karttunen
Xerox Research Centre Europe
6 Chemin de Maupertuis
Meylan, 38240, France

by Monday, October 19, 1998.

The format of the submission should follow the general submission
requirements of the Journal. Manuscripts for Computational Linguistics
should be submitted on letter-size paper (8.5 by 11 inches, or A4),
double-spaced throughout, including footnotes and references. The
paper should begin with an informative abstract of approximately
150-250 words. Manuscripts must be written in English.