Paper Info
Title
Proceedings of the 2010 Workshop on Applications of Tree Automata in Natural Language Processing
Abstract
We are pleased to present the proceedings of the ACL 2010Workshop on Applications of Tree Automata in Natural Language Processing, which will be held on July 16 in Uppsala, Sweden, following the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). The theory of tree automata has always had a close connection with natural language processing. In the 1960s, computational linguistics was the major driving force for the development of a theory of tree automata. However, the number of successful applications of this theory to natural language processing remained small during the 20th century. This situation has now changed. Applications of tree automata in natural language processing can be found in work on topics as diverse as grammar formalisms, computational semantics, language generation, and machine translation. Researchers in natural language processing have recognized the usefulness of tree automata theory for solving the problems they are interested in, and theorists are inspired by the resulting theoretical questions. The goals of this workshop are to provide a dedicated venue for the presentation of work that relates the theory of tree automata to natural language processing, and to create a forum where researchers from the two areas can meet and exchange ideas. Specifically, the workshop aims at raising the awareness for theoretical results useful for applications in natural language processing, and at identifying open theoretical problems raised by such applications. We are very happy that Kevin Knight (ISI/University of Southern California, USA), certainly the most recognized ambassador for tree automata techniques in machine translation, agreed to give one of his stimulating invited lectures. For the workshop, authors were invited to submit full papers and proposals for quickfire presentations, the latter being a means for triggering discussions and an exchange of ideas. After a thorough reviewing process with three reviews per full paper, six full papers and four quickfire presentations were accepted for the workshop. The quality and diversity of the papers accepted ensures an interesting and inspiring workshop that we look forward to.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2010
ATANLP@ACL 2010
computational linguistics,language generation,inspiring workshop,tree automata technique,quickfire presentation,tree automata theory,machine translation,tree automata,tree automaton,natural language processing,full paper
Field
DocType
Citations 
Automata theory,Computational semantics,Computer science,Automaton,Computational linguistics,Machine translation,Grammar,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,Rotation formalisms in three dimensions,Language technology
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Frank Drewes16110.73
Marco Kuhlmann230923.06