Monday, September 4, 2017
8:30–9:00 | Registration and Opening |
9:00–10:30 |
Minimization Techniques for Automata and Grammars [slides] Tutorial by Johanna Björklund |
10:30–11:00 | Coffee Break |
11:00–12:30 |
Abstract Categorial Grammars as a Model of the Syntax-Semantics Interface for TAG [slides] Tutorial by Sylvain Pogodalla |
12:30–13:30 | Lunch Break |
13:30–15:00 |
Syntax-Driven Semantic Frame Composition in Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammars [slides] Tutorial by Laura Kallmeyer and Rainer Osswald |
15:00–15:30 | Coffee Break |
15:30–16:00 |
Failure Transducers and Applications in Knowledge-Based Text Processing Stoyan Mihov and Klaus U. Schulz |
16:00–16:30 |
Transliterated Mobile Keyboard Input via Weighted Finite-State Transducers [slides] Lars Hellsten, Brian Roark, Prasoon Goyal, Cyril Allauzen, Françoise Beaufays, Tom Ouyang, Michael Riley and David Rybach |
Tuesday, September 5, 2017
9:00–10:00 |
Higher Order Structures in Minimalist Derivations [slides] Invited talk by Gregory Kobele |
10:00–10:30 | Coffee Break |
10:30–11:00 |
Harmonic Serialism and Finite-State Optimality Theory [slides] Yiding Hao |
11:00–11:30 |
Bounded-Depth High-Coverage Search Space for Noncrossing Parses [slides] Anssi Yli-Jyrä |
11:30–12:00 |
Multi-tape Computing with Synchronous Relations [slides] Christian Wurm and Simon Petitjean |
12:00–13:00 | Lunch Break |
13:00–13:30 |
Finite-State Morphological Analysis for Marathi [slides] Vinit Ravishankar and Francis M. Tyers |
13:30–14:00 |
Word Transduction for Addressing the OOV Problem in Machine Translation for Similar Resource-Scarce Languages [slides] Shashikant Sharma and Anil Kumar Singh |
14:00–14:30 |
A FST Description of Noun and Verb Morphology of Azarbaijani Turkish [slides] Razieh Ehsani, Berke Özenç and ErcanSolak |
14:30–15:00 | Coffee Break |
15:00–16:30 | SIGFSM Business Meeting [slides] |
18:30– | Guided tour at Guitars – The Museum followed by Conference Dinner |
Wednesday, September 6, 2017
9:00–10:00 |
Dependency Semantics and Composition [slides] Invited talk by Ann Copestake |
10:00–10:30 | Coffee Break |
10:30–11:00 |
Evaluation of Finite State Morphological Analyzers Based on Paradigm Extraction from Wiktionary [slides] Ling Liu and Mans Hulden |
11:00–11:30 |
Evaluating an Automata Approach to Query Containment [slides] Michael Minock |