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Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing - 8th International Workshop, FSMNLP 2009, Pretoria, South Africa, July 21-24, 2009, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, Edition.)
Anssi Yli-Jyra, Andr as Kornai, Jacques Sakarovitch, Bruce Watson
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th
International Workshop on the Finite-State-Methods and Natural
Language Processing, FSMNLP 2009. The workshop was held at the
University of Pretoria, South Africa on July 2009. In total 21
papers were submitted and of those papers 13 were accepted as
regular papers and a further 6 as extended abstracts. The papers
are devoted to computational morphology, natural language
processing, finite-state methods, automata, and related formal
language theory.
In these, his memoirs, we see Harry's adolescent revolt against his
all-powerful father and his flight to Canada after knocking him
down in a row. Then there is the account of his adventures in the
Lincolnshire Regiment before the outbreak of the First World War,
his time in the trenches with the rats and the corpses and only his
belief in the Almighty and in his Destiny to keep him going. He
tells how he lost a fortune during the Depression, and then made
another that he was to fritter away in luxury cruises in the last
years of his life. The Second World War gives him a new 'raison
d'etre' - first in the Home Guard and then in the 'Little Ships.'
He paints a vivid picture of a forgotten way of life, a life of
ease, of loss, of heartbreak, and of adventure; though, strangely
enough, he never speaks of his personal feelings - it wasn't the
done thing.
He was fiercely proud and patriotic and adored all royalty and
aristocracy, delighting in any occasion that permitted him to
approach them. But his greatest pride was that of being, first and
foremost, 'a Lincolnshire man.'
This is the story of one of America's most divisive trials and
executions. Ferdinando Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were two
Italian-born anarchists tried and executed for robbery in 1927
despite widespread doubt about their guilt and whether they
received a fair trial. This book tells the story and includes the
official FBI files.
This collection of snappy, humorous, earthy stories all have a
sting in the tail. They portray aspects of life in France
unsuspected by most casual visitors. Food and sex are rarely talked
of with such delicate earthiness. Medicine, herbal remedies, crime,
social niceties, witchcraft and religion are the reflecting mirrors
that illuminate Fanny, Louis, Francine and Justin: the
larger-than-life characters who invite you to share their France
with you.
TheSixthInternationalConferenceonImplementationandApplicationof-
tomata(CIAA2001)-the?rstoneheldinthesouthernhemisphere-was
heldattheUniversityofPretoriainPretoria,SouthAfrica,on23-25July2001.
ThisvolumeofSpringer'sLectureNotesinComputerSciencecontainsall
thepapers(includingtheinvitedtalkbyGregorv. Bochmann)thatwerep-
sentedatCIAA2001,aswellasanexpandedversionofoneoftheposterpapers
displayedduringtheconference.
Theconferenceaddressedtheissuesinautomataapplicationandimplemen-
tion.
Thetopicsofthepaperspresentedinthisconferencerangedfromautomata
applicationsinsoftwareengineering,naturallanguageandspeechrecognition,
andimageprocessing,tonewrepresentationsandalgorithmsfore?cientimp-
mentationofautomataandrelatedstructures.
Automatatheoryisoneoftheoldestareasincomputerscience. Researchin
automatatheoryhasbeenmotivatedbyitsapplicationssinceitsearlystagesof
development. Inthe1960sand1970s,automataresearchwasmotivatedheavily
byproblemsarisingfromcompilerconstruction,circuitdesign,stringmatching,
etc. Inrecentyears,manynewapplicationsofautomatahavebeenfoundin
variousareasofcomputerscienceaswellasinotherdisciplines.
Examplesofthe
newapplicationsincludestatechartsinobject-orientedmodeling,?nitetra-
ducersinnaturallanguageprocessing,andnondeterministic?
nite-statemodels incommunicationprotocols.
Manyofthenewapplicationscannotsimplyutilize
theexistingmodelsandalgorithmsinautomatatheorytosolvetheirproblems.
Newmodels,ormodi?cationsoftheexistingmodels,areneededtosatisfytheir
requirements. Also,thesizesofthetypicalproblemsinmanyofthenewapp-
cationsareastronomicallylargerthanthoseusedinthetraditionalapplications.
Newalgorithmsandnewrepresentationsofautomataarerequiredtoreducethe
timeandspacerequirementsofthecomputation.
TheCIAAconferenceseriesprovidesaforumforthenewproblemsand
challenges.
Intheseconferences,boththeoreticalandpracticalresultsrelatedto
theapplicationandimplementationofautomatawerepresentedanddiscussed,
andsoftwarepackagesandtoolkitsweredemonstrated.
Theparticipantsofthe
conferenceserieswerefrombothresearchinstitutionsandindustry.
Wethankalloftheprogramcommitteemembersandrefereesfortheire?orts
inrefereeingandselectingpapers. Thisvolumewaseditedwithmuchhelpfrom
NanetteSaesandHannekeDriever,whiletheconferenceitselfwasrunsmoothly
withthehelpofElmarieWillemse,NanetteSaes,andTheoKoopman. VI
Foreword
WealsowishtothanktheSouthAfricanNRF(forfundingairfares)andthe
DepartmentofComputerScience,UniversityofPretoria,fortheir?nancialand
logisticsupportoftheconference.
WealsothanktheeditorsoftheLectureNotes
inComputerScienceseriesandSpringer-Verlag,inparticularAnnaKramer,for
theirhelpinpublishingthisvolume. October2002 BruceW. Watson
DerickWood CIAA 2001 Program Committee BernardBoigelot
Universit'edeLiege,Belgium Jean-MarcChamparnaud
Universit'edeRouen,France MaximeCrochemore
UniversityofMarne-la-Vall'ee,France OscarIbarra
UniversityofCaliforniaatSantaBarbara,USA LauriKarttunen
XeroxPaloAltoResearchCenter,USA NilsKlarlund
AT&TLaboratories,USA DenisMaurel Universit'edeTours,France
MehryarMohri AT&TLaboratories,USA Jean-EricPin
Universit'eParis7,France KaiSalomaa Queen'sUniversity,Canada
HelmutSeidl TrierUniversity,Germany BruceWatson(Chair)
UniversityofPretoria,SouthAfrica EindhovenUniversity,TheNetherlands
DerickWood(Co-chair) HongKongUniversityofScience
andTechnology,China ShengYu UniversityofWesternOntario,Canada Table
of Contents
UsingFiniteStateTechnologyinNaturalLanguageProcessingofBasque...1
I"nakiAlegria,MaxuxAranzabe,NereaEzeiza,AitzolEzeiza,
andRubenUrizar CascadeDecompositionsareBit-VectorAlgorithms...13
AnneBergeronandSylvieHamel
SubmoduleConstructionandSupervisoryControl:AGeneralization...27
Gregorv. Bochmann CountingtheSolutionsofPresburgerEquations
withoutEnumeratingThem...40 BernardBoigelotandLouisLatour
Brzozowski'sDerivativesExtendedtoMultiplicities...52
Jean-MarcChamparnaudandG'erardDuchamp
FiniteAutomataforCompactRepresentation ofLanguageModelsinNLP...65
JanDaciukandGertjanvanNoord PastPushdownTimedAutomata...74
ZheDang,Tev?kBultan,OscarH. Ibarra,andRichardA. Kemmerer
SchedulingHardSporadicTasksbyMeans
ofFiniteAutomataandGeneratingFunctions...87
Jean-PhilippeDubernardandDominiqueGeniet Bounded-GraphConstruction
forNoncanonicalDiscriminating-ReverseParsers...101
JacquesFarr'eandJos'eFortesGalvez '
Finite-StateTransducerCascadetoExtractProperNamesinTexts...115
NathalieFriburgerandDenisMaurel
IsthisFinite-StateTransducerSequentiable?...125 Tamas ' Ga'al
CompilationMethodsofMinimalAcyclicFinite-StateAutomata
forLargeDictionaries...135 JorgeGran "a,Fco.
MarioBarcala,andMiguelA. Alonso BitParallelism-NFASimulation...149
JanHolub ImprovingRasterImageRun-LengthEncodingUsingDataOrder...161
MarkusHolzerandMartinKutrib X Table of Contents
EnhancementsofPartitioningTechniques
forImageCompressionUsingWeightedFiniteAutomata ...1 77
FrankKatritzke,WolfgangMerzenich,andMichaelThomas Extractionof
-CyclesfromFinite-StateTransducers...190 Andr'eKempe
OntheSizeofDeterministicFiniteAutomata...202
Bo?rivojMelicharandJanSkryja CrystalLatticeAutomata...214
JimMorey,KamranSedig,RobertE. Mercer,andWayneWilson
MinimalAdaptivePattern-MatchingAutomata
forE?cientTermRewriting...221 NadiaNedjahandLuizadeMacedoMourelle
AdaptiveRule-DrivenDevices-GeneralFormulationandCaseStudy...234
Joao " Jos'eNeto
TypographicalNearest-NeighborSearchinaFinite-StateLexicon
andItsApplicationtoSpellingCorrection...251 AgataSavary
OntheSoftwareDesignofCellularAutomataSimulators
forEcologicalModeling...261 YuriVelinov
RandomNumberGenerationwith?-NFAs...263 LynettevanZijl
SupernondeterministicFiniteAutomata...274 LynettevanZijl Author
Index...289 Using Finite State Technology in Natural Language
Processing of Basque Iaeaki Alegria, Maxux Aranzabe, Nerea Ezeiza,
Aitzol Ezeiza, and Ruben Urizar Ixa taldea, University of the
Basque Country, Spain i. alegria@si. ehu. es Abstract.
Six multi-period archaeological sites investigated in advance of
gravel extraction in the London Borough of Havering between 1963
and 1997 form the basis of a landscape history of the Rainham and
Upminster area. Residual Mesolithic finds from the study area
include an adze. The first significant activity locally was an
Early Neolithic ring ditch, which remained in use for about a
millennium. During the Bronze Age the area was transformed by
extensive woodland clearance and the creation of rectilinear fields
and scattered farmsteads. The Iron Age saw more intensive landscape
utilisation and settlement. About the time of the Roman invasion
two farmsteads were fortified. A waterhole from one of these
farmsteads revealed a large pottery assemblage dating to c. AD
60-70, showing a low level of Romanisation and few imported wares.
A number of farmsteads were continuously occupied throughout the
Roman period until after c. AD 370. The presence of Early Saxon
activity at some sites suggests either continuity of occupation or
only a short period of abandonment. These scattered Saxon
farmsteads were probably abandoned during the Late Saxon period,
when the rural settlement pattern generally changed to nucleated
villages. Significant medieval remains include a farmstead and a
manorial enclosure.
Summability methods are transformations that map sequences (or
functions) to sequences (or functions). A prime requirement for a
"good" summability method is that it preserves convergence. Unless
it is the identity transformation, it will do more: it will
transform some divergent sequences to convergent sequences. An
important type of theorem is called a Tauberian theorem. Here, we
know that a sequence is summable. The sequence satisfies a further
property that implies convergence. Borel's methods are fundamental
to a whole class of sequences to function methods. The
transformation gives a function that is usually analytic in a large
part of the complex plane, leading to a method for analytic
continuation. These methods, dated from the beginning of the 20th
century, have recently found applications in some problems in
theoretical physics.
On January 12, 1912, an army of textile workers stormed out of
the mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts, commencing what has since
become known as the "Bread and Roses" strike. Based on newspaper
accounts, magazine reportage, and oral histories, Watson
reconstructs a Dickensian drama involving thousands of parading
strikers from fifty-one nations, unforgettable acts of cruelty, and
even a protracted murder trial that tested the boundaries of free
speech. A rousing look at a seminal and overlooked chapter of the
past, Bread and Roses is indispensable reading.
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