PROGRAMME

July 23

15.00-18.00: TUTORIALS

• Spelling and grammar correction with FSTs (Tommi Pirinen/University of Helsinki, Iñaki Alegria/University of the Basque Country, Mans Hulden/Ikerbasque (Basque Science Foundation))

Coffee Break

• Probabilistic parsing with weighted FSTs (Miikka Silfverberg/University of Helsinki)
• Grapheme-to-phoneme training and conversion with WFSTs (Josef Novak/The University of Tokyo)

July 24

9.00: Opening

9.30-10.30: Invited Speaker

• Kimmo Koskenniemi with the talk "The simplicity of two-level morphology".

10.30-11.00: Coffee Break

11.00-12.00: Long Papers I

• Effect of Language and Error Models on Efficiency of Finite-State Spell-Checking and Correction (Tommi Pirinen and Sam Hardwick)
• Practical Finite State Optimality Theory (Dale Gerdemann and Mans Hulden)

12.00-13.00: Short Papers I

• Handling Unknown Words in Arabic FST Morphology (Khaled Shaalan and Mohammed Attia)
• Urdu – Roman Transliteration via Finite State Transducers (Tina Bögel)
• Integrating Aspectually Relevant Properties of Verbs into a Morphological Analyzer for English (Katina Bontcheva)
• Finite-State Technology In A Verse-Making Tool (Manex Agirrezabal, Iñaki Alegria, Bertol Arrieta and Mans Hulden)

13.00-14.30: Lunch

14.30-15.30: Short Papers II

• DAGGER: A Toolkit for Automata on Directed Acyclic Graphs (Daniel Quernheim and Kevin Knight)
• WFST-Based Grapheme-To-Phoneme Conversion: Open Source Tools for Alignment, Model-Building and Decoding (Josef Novak, Nobuaki Minematsu and Keikichi Hirose)
• Kleene, A Free and Open-Source Language for Finite-State Programming (Kenneth R Beesley)
• Implementation of Replace Rules using Preference Operator (Senka Drobac, Miikka Silfverberg and Anssi Yli-Jyrä)

15.30-16.30: Short Papers III

• First Approaches On Spanish Medical Record Classification Using Diagnostic Term To Class Transduction (Alicia Pérez, Maite Oronoz, Arantza Casillas, Arantza Díaz de Ilarraza and Koldo Gojenola)
• Developing an Open-Source FST Grammar for Verb Chain Transfer in a Spanish-Basque MT System (Aingeru Mayor, Mans Hulden and Gorka Labaka)
• Conversion of Procedural Morphologies To Finite-State Morphologies: A Case Study Of Arabic (Mans Hulden and Younes Samih)
• A Methodology for Obtaining Concept Graphs from Word Graphs (Marcos Calvo, Jon Ander Gómez, Lluís-F Hurtado and Emilio Sanchis)

16.30-18.00: Posters and coffee

20.30: Dinner (in the Old Town)

July 25

9.30-11.00: Long Papers II

• A Finite-State Temporal Ontology and Event-Intervals (Tim Fernando)
• A Finite-State Approach to Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation (Jorge González)
• Finite-State Acoustic and Translation Model Composition in Statistical Speech Translation: Empirical Assessment (Alicia Pérez, M. Inés Torres and Francisco Casacuberta)

11.00-11.30: Coffee Break

11.30-12.30: Long Papers III

• Refining the Design of a Contracting Finite-State Dependency Parser (Anssi Yli-Jyrä, Jussi Piitulainen and Atro Voutilainen)
• Lattice-Based Minimum Error Rate Training using Weighted Finite-State Transducers with Tropical Polynomial Weights (Aurelien Waite, Graeme Blackwood and William Byrne)

12.30-13.30: Business Meeting