CALL FOR PAPERS
                   Extended finite state models of language

         Special issue of the Journal of Natural Language Engineering
                         Andras Kornai, Guest Editor

In spite  of  the wide availability of   more  powerful (context-free,  mildly
context-sensitive,  and even  Turing-equivalent)  formalisms, the  bulk of the
applied work on language and sublanguage modeling, especially for the purposes
of  recognition and topic  search, is still  performed by various finite state
methods.  In fact,  the use of   such methods in applied  work  as well  as in
research actually increased in the past five years.  This special issue, based
on the  proceedings of the W1  workshop at ECAI'96, is  open to submissions on
finite  state methods  to text  analysis,   speech/OCR language  modeling, and
related CL   and  NLP tasks, as  well   as to  papers analyzing  and  possibly
extending the domain of finite-state algorithms.  In keeping with the focus of
JNLE, position papers and  gedanken-experiments are discouraged.   Theoretical
papers would be welcome to the extent they benefit the practicing engineer.

Papers are due December 31 1996.  Electronic submissions only. Authors will be
notified by January 15 1997, with final copy due January  31 1997. The authors
of papers presented at  the workshop have the  choice of submitting the papers
in their  current format  (see  http://www.cs.rice.edu/~andras/papers.html) or
revising them. All papers, including the ones invited to the workshop, will go
through the regular JNLE refereeing process.  Send submissions (plain latex2e,
eps figures) to kornai@almaden.ibm.com.