Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing 8th International Workshop, FSMNLP 2009, Pretoria, South Africa, July 21-24, 2009, Revised Selected Papers /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Yli-Jyrä, Anssi (Editor), Kornai, András (Editor), Sakarovitch, Jacques (Editor), Watson, Bruce (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 6062
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer programming.; Programming languages (Electronic computers).; Computer logic.; Mathematical logic.; Artificial intelligence.; Computational linguistics.; Computer Science.; Language Translation and Linguistics.; Programming Techniques.; Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages.; Logics and Meanings of Programs.

Table of Contents:

• Tutorials
• Learning Finite State Machines
• Special Theme Tutorials
• Developing Computational Morphology for Low- and Middle-Density Languages
• Invited Papers
• fsm2 – A Scripting Language Interpreter for Manipulating Weighted Finite-State Automata
• Selected Operations and Applications of n-Tape Weighted Finite-State Machines
• OpenFst
• Special Theme Invited Talks
• Morphological Analysis of Tone Marked Kinyarwanda Text
• Regular Papers
• Minimizing Weighted Tree Grammars Using Simulation
• Compositions of Top-Down Tree Transducers with ?-Rules
• Reducing Nondeterministic Finite Automata with SAT Solvers
• Joining Composition and Trimming of Finite-State Transducers
• Special Theme Extended Abstracts
• Porting Basque Morphological Grammars to foma, an Open-Source Tool
• Describing Georgian Morphology with a Finite-State System
• Finite State Morphology of the Nguni Language Cluster: Modelling and Implementation Issues
• A Finite State Approach to Setswana Verb Morphology
• Competition Announcements
• Zulu: An Interactive Learning Competition.