People Possible topics First Steps Applications in finite state automata Presentation Topics and First Steps Kurt Eberle kurt.eberle@uni-tuebingen.de (includes material from Karttunen, Beesley, Butt and others) November 3, 2016 1 / 14
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People Possible topics First Steps Goals of this session � Xerox people � Possible topics � First steps: Karttunen’s presentation FS methods in NLP Linguistic society of America, Summer institute 2005 3 / 14
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People Possible topics First Steps People Lauri Karttunen ◮ Semantics and Morphology ◮ Xerox Research Centre Europe (Meylan, Grenoble) ◮ Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) ◮ Xerox Finite State Toolkit ◮ Many awards 5 / 14
People Possible topics First Steps People Kimmo Koskenniemi ◮ Two-level morphology : a general computational model for word-form recognition and production ◮ originally for Finnish ◮ cooperation with the Xerox people 6 / 14
People Possible topics First Steps Martin Kay ◮ Cambridge Language Research Unit ◮ 1961 Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, California, head of research in linguistics and machine translation. ◮ 1972 Chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. ◮ 1974 Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Research Fellow. ◮ 1985,in addition, Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University and Honorary Professor of Computational Linguistics at Saarland University. ◮ very influential in the field (advisor in many projects, e.g. Verbmobil) ◮ finite-state morphology ◮ MT : (The Proper Place of Men and Machines in Language Translation) 7 / 14
People Possible topics First Steps Ron Kaplan ◮ Research Fellow at the Palo Alto Research Center ◮ Chief Scientist and a Principal Researcher at the Powerset division of Microsoft Bing. ◮ Distinguished Scientist at Nuance Communications. ◮ Vice President at Amazon.com ◮ Chief Scientist for Amazon Search ◮ Adjunct Professor in the Linguistics Department at Stanford University ◮ Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) (with Joan Bresnan) ◮ Development (with Martin Kay) of the mathematical, linguistic, and computational concepts that underlie the use of finite-state phonological and morphological descriptions. ◮ helped to embed finite-state methods in a wide range of commercial products offered by Xerox and Xerox spin-off companies: Microlytics, Inxight, 8 / 14 and Scansoft.
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People Possible topics First Steps Possible topics Papers ◮ Chomsky & Halle 1968 The Sound Pattern of English (excerpt, basic features of the theory - transformational setting) ◮ Koskenniemi 1983: Two-level morphology ◮ Karttunen 1993: Finite-State Constraints , The Last Phonological Rule. J. Goldsmith (ed.), pages 173-194, ◮ Gregory T. Stump 2001: Inflectional Morphology . A Theory of Paradigm Structure. Cambridge U. Press. 2001. (An excerpt) ◮ Johnson, C. D. 1972: Formal Aspects of Phonological Description ◮ Kaplan & Kay 1981: Phonological rules and finite-state transducers 10 / 14 ◮ others
People Possible topics First Steps Possible topics Chapters of FSM ◮ Testing and Debugging ◮ Flag Diacritics ◮ Non-concatenative morphotactics ◮ Tokenize and lookup utility 11 / 14
People Possible topics First Steps Possible topics Presentations of Problems and solutions ◮ Brazilian Portuguese Pronunciation ◮ Esperanto Noun, Adjectives and Verbs ◮ others . . . 12 / 14
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People Possible topics First Steps First Steps ◮ Xerox software ◮ Presentation Karttunen: FS Methods in NLP Lecture 1 ◮ Morphotactics ◮ Phonological alternations ◮ Morphology is regular ◮ Compilation into FSA ◮ Generation, Analysis, Transducers ◮ models ◮ xfst examples ◮ regular expressions 14 / 14
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