Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing

Download or read book Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing written by Anssi Yli-Jyrä and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-12-07 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Finite-State Methods in Natural Language Processing, FSMNLP 2005, held in Helsinki, Finland, September 2005. The book presents 24 revised full papers and seven revised poster papers together with two invited contributions and abstracts of six software demos. Topics include morphology, optimality theory, some special FSM families, weighted FSM algorithms, FSM representations, exploration, ordered structures, and surface parsing.