Special issue of the Journal of Natural Language Engineering
Andras Kornai, Guest Editor
In spite of the wide availability of more powerful (context-free, mildly
context-sensitive, and even Turing-equivalent) formalisms, the bulk of the
applied work on language and sublanguage modeling, especially for the purposes
of recognition and topic search, is still performed by various finite state
methods. In fact, the use of such methods in applied work as well as in
research actually increased in the past five years. This special issue, based
on the proceedings of the W1 workshop at ECAI'96, is open to submissions on
finite state methods to text analysis, speech/OCR language modeling, and
related CL and NLP tasks, as well as to papers analyzing and possibly
extending the domain of finite-state algorithms. In keeping with the focus of
JNLE, position papers and gedanken-experiments are discouraged. Theoretical
papers would be welcome to the extent they benefit the practicing engineer.
Papers are due December 31 1996. Electronic submissions only. Authors will be
notified by January 15 1997, with final copy due January 31 1997. The authors
of papers presented at the workshop have the choice of submitting the papers
in their current format (see http://www.cs.rice.edu/~andras/papers.html) or
revising them. All papers, including the ones invited to the workshop, will go
through the regular JNLE refereeing process. Send submissions (plain latex2e,
eps figures) to kornai@almaden.ibm.com.