special issue cl journal finite state methods nlp call papers computational linguistics special issue finite state methods natural language processing recent years seen substantial increase use finite state techniques many aspects natural language processing mature tools building large scale finitestate systems various research laboratories universities become available trend means foreseen late ten years ago given wellknown demonstration noam chomsky 1957 finitestate methods inherently incapable representing full richness constructions natural language nevertheless evident many subsets natural language adequately covered finitestate means many areas finitestate approximations powerful formalisms great practical benefit followup fsmnlp 98 international workshop finite state methods natural language processing proposed collection papers area published special issue computational linguistics journal would encourage authors papers presented workshop well others would like contribute submit full versions papers consideration 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 kaplan xerox palo alto research center ca usa martin kay xerox palo alto research center ca usa george kiraz bell laboratories nj usa andrs kornai bbn usa mehryar mohri att labs research nj usa mark jan nederhof dfki germany atro voutilainen university helsinki finland submission details please submit 6 copies hardcopy manuscript lauri karttunen xerox research centre europe 6 chemin de maupertuis meylan 38240 france monday october 19 1998 format submission follow general submission requirements journal manuscripts computational linguistics submitted lettersize paper 8 5 11 inches a4 doublespaced throughout including footnotes references paper begin informative abstract approximately 150250 words manuscripts must written english