CALL FOR PAPERS


                     COMPUTATIONAL  LINGUISTICS

                            SPECIAL ISSUE 

                                 ON 

           FINITE STATE METHODS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING


Recent years has seen a substantial increase in the use of finite
state techniques in many aspects of natural language processing as
mature tools for building large scale finite-state systems from
various research laboratories and universities become available. This
trend was by no means foreseen as late as ten years ago given the
well-known demonstration by Noam Chomsky in 1957 that finite-state
methods are inherently incapable of representing the full richness of
constructions in a natural language.  Nevertheless, it is evident now
that there are many subsets of natural language that are adequately
covered by finite-state means and that there are many other areas
where finite-state approximations of more powerful formalisms are of
great practical benefit.

As a follow-up to the FSMNLP'98, International Workshop on Finite
State Methods in Natural Language Processing, it was proposed that a
collection of papers in this area be published as a special issue of
the Computational Linguistics journal.  We would to encourage authors
of the papers presented at this workshop, as well as all others who
would like to contribute, to submit full versions of their papers for
consideration for this special issue.



Guest Editors: 

Lauri Karttunen (Xerox Research Centre Europe,France)
Kemal Oflazer (Bilkent University, Turkey)

Guest Editorial Board

Eric Brill  (Johns Hopkins University, MD, USA) 
Eva Ejerhed (Umea University, Sweden) 
Ronald M. Kaplan (Xerox  Palo Alto Research Center, CA, USA) 
Martin Kay (Xerox  Palo Alto Research Center, CA, USA) 
George Kiraz (Bell Laboratories, NJ, USA) 
András Kornai (BBN, MA, USA) 
Mehryar Mohri (AT&T Labs Research, NJ, USA) 
Mark-Jan Nederhof (DFKI, Germany) 
Atro Voutilainen (University of Helsinki, Finland) 


Submission Details

Please submit 6 copies of your hard-copy manuscript to

        Lauri Karttunen
        Xerox Research Centre Europe
        6 Chemin de Maupertuis
        Meylan, 38240, France

by Monday, October 19, 1998. 

The format of the submission should follow the general submission
requirements of the Journal. Manuscripts for Computational Linguistics
should be submitted on letter-size paper (8.5 by 11 inches, or A4),
double-spaced throughout, including footnotes and references.  The
paper should begin with an informative abstract of approximately
150-250 words.  Manuscripts must be written in English.