CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Finite State Methods in Natural Language Processing ESSLLI Workshop, August 20-24 2001, Helsinki Description: Finite state methods are used in various areas of linguistic computation, including tokenization, lexicography, spell checking, part of speech tagging, speech recognition, grapheme to phoneme conversion, computational phonology and morphology, as well as computational syntax. In recent years the use of finite state methods has increased both in practical applications (such as in morphological analyzers for a variety of languages), as well as in more theoretical approaches (such as in recent attempts to formalize optimality-theoretic analyses in phonology by finite-state means). The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers and Ph.D. students working with finite-state methods within natural language processing and computational linguistics. The workshop belongs to the program of the 13th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) which is organized at the University of Helsinki from August 13 until August 24, 2001 (see the home page http://www.helsinki.fi/esslli for more information). Submission guidelines: Extended abstracts (up to four pages) for forty-five minute talks are invited from all areas of interest for the workshop. The abstract should be submitted by e-mail to Gertjan van Noord, vannoord@let.rug.nl before the deadline given below, in Postscript or PDF. Note that all participants of the workshop must register for the ESSLLI summer school. Organisers: Lauri Karttunen Xerox Research Kimmo Koskenniemi University of Helsinki Gertjan van Noord University of Groningen Important Dates: Submission deadline: April 27, 2001 Notification of contributors: May 15, 2001 Workshop Dates: August 20-24, 2001 Sponsor The workshop is co-financed by the NWO PIONIER project Algorithms for Linguistic Processing. Further info at http://www.let.rug.nl/~vannoord/alp/