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Summability methods are transformations that map sequences (or functions) to sequences (or functions). A prime requirement for a "good" summability method is that it preserves convergence. Unless it is the identity transformation, it will do more: it will transform some divergent sequences to convergent sequences.An important type of theorem is called a Tauberian theorem. Here, we know that a sequence is summable. The sequence satisfies a further property that implies convergence.Borel's methods are fundamental to a whole class of sequences to function methods. The transformation gives a function that is usually analytic in a large part of the complex plane, leading to a method for analytic continuation.These methods, dated from the beginning of the 20th century, have recently found applications in some problems in theoretical physics.

A riveting account of one of the most remarkable episodes in American history. In his critically acclaimed history Freedom Summer, award- winning author Bruce Watson presents powerful testimony about a crucial episode in the American civil rights movement. During the sweltering summer of 1964, more than seven hundred American college students descended upon segregated, reactionary Mississippi to register black voters and educate black children. On the night of their arrival, the worst fears of a race-torn nation were realized when three young men disappeared, thought to have been murdered by the Ku Klux Klan. Taking readers into the heart of these remarkable months, Freedom Summer shines new light on a critical moment of nascent change in America."Recreates the texture of that terrible yet rewarding summer with impressive verisimilitude." -Washington Post

In this groundbreaking narrative of one of America?s most divisive trials and executions, award-winning journalist Bruce Watson mines deep archives and newly available sources to paint the most complete portrait available of the ?good shoemaker? and the ?poor fish peddler.? Opening with an explosion that rocks a quiet Washington, D.C., neighborhood and concluding with worldwide outrage as two men are executed despite widespread doubts about their guilt, Sacco & Vanzetti is the definitive history of an infamous case that still haunts the American imagination.

On January 12, 1912, an army of textile workers stormed out of the mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts, commencing what has since become known as the "Bread and Roses" strike. Based on newspaper accounts, magazine reportage, and oral histories, Watson reconstructs a Dickensian drama involving thousands of parading strikers from fifty-one nations, unforgettable acts of cruelty, and even a protracted murder trial that tested the boundaries of free speech. A rousing look at a seminal and overlooked chapter of the past, Bread and Roses is indispensable reading.

In these, his memoirs, we see Harrys adolescent revolt against his all-powerful father and his flight to Canada after knocking him down in a row. Then there is the account of his adventures in the Lincolnshire Regiment before the outbreak of the First World War, his time in the trenches with the rats and the corpses and only his belief in the Almighty and in his Destiny to keep him going. He tells how he lost a fortune during the Depression, and then made another that he was to fritter away in luxury cruises in the last years of his life. The Second World War gives him a new raison dtre first in the Home Guard and then in the Little Ships.

He paints a vivid picture of a forgotten way of life, a life of ease, of loss, of heartbreak, and of adventure; though, strangely enough, he never speaks of his personal feelings it wasnt the done thing.

He was fiercely proud and patriotic and adored all royalty and aristocracy, delighting in any occasion that permitted him to approach them. But his greatest pride was that of being, first and foremost, a Lincolnshire man.

Light begins at Stonehenge, where crowds cheer a solstice sunrise. After sampling myths explaining First Light, the story moves on to early philosophers'' queries, then through the centuries, from Buddhist temples to Biblical scripture, when light was the soul of the divine. Battling darkness and despair, Gothic architects crafted radiant cathedrals while Dante dreamed a "heaven of pure light." Later, following Leonardo''s advice, Renaissance artists learned to capture light on canvas. During the Scientific Revolution, Galileo gathered light in his telescope, Descartes measured the rainbow, and Newton used prisms to solidify the science of optics. But even after Newton, light was an enigma. Particle or wave? Did it flow through an invisible "ether"? Through the age of Edison and into the age of lasers, Light reveals how light sparked new wonders--relativity, quantum electrodynamics, fiber optics, and more. Although lasers now perform everyday miracles, light retains its eternal allure. "For the rest of my life," Einstein said, "I will reflect on what light is." Light explores and celebrates such curiosity.

TheSixthInternationalConferenceonImplementationandApplicationof- tomata(CIAA2001)-the?rstoneheldinthesouthernhemisphere-was heldattheUniversityofPretoriainPretoria,SouthAfrica,on23-25July2001. ThisvolumeofSpringer'sLectureNotesinComputerSciencecontainsall thepapers(includingtheinvitedtalkbyGregorv. Bochmann)thatwerep- sentedatCIAA2001,aswellasanexpandedversionofoneoftheposterpapers displayedduringtheconference. Theconferenceaddressedtheissuesinautomataapplicationandimplemen- tion. Thetopicsofthepaperspresentedinthisconferencerangedfromautomata applicationsinsoftwareengineering,naturallanguageandspeechrecognition, andimageprocessing,tonewrepresentationsandalgorithmsfore?cientimp- mentationofautomataandrelatedstructures. Automatatheoryisoneoftheoldestareasincomputerscience. Researchin automatatheoryhasbeenmotivatedbyitsapplicationssinceitsearlystagesof development. Inthe1960sand1970s,automataresearchwasmotivatedheavily byproblemsarisingfromcompilerconstruction,circuitdesign,stringmatching, etc. Inrecentyears,manynewapplicationsofautomatahavebeenfoundin variousareasofcomputerscienceaswellasinotherdisciplines. Examplesofthe newapplicationsincludestatechartsinobject-orientedmodeling,?nitetra- ducersinnaturallanguageprocessing,andnondeterministic?nite-statemodels incommunicationprotocols. Manyofthenewapplicationscannotsimplyutilize theexistingmodelsandalgorithmsinautomatatheorytosolvetheirproblems. Newmodels,ormodi?cationsoftheexistingmodels,areneededtosatisfytheir requirements. Also,thesizesofthetypicalproblemsinmanyofthenewapp- cationsareastronomicallylargerthanthoseusedinthetraditionalapplications. Newalgorithmsandnewrepresentationsofautomataarerequiredtoreducethe timeandspacerequirementsofthecomputation. TheCIAAconferenceseriesprovidesaforumforthenewproblemsand challenges. Intheseconferences,boththeoreticalandpracticalresultsrelatedto theapplicationandimplementationofautomatawerepresentedanddiscussed, andsoftwarepackagesandtoolkitsweredemonstrated. Theparticipantsofthe conferenceserieswerefrombothresearchinstitutionsandindustry. Wethankalloftheprogramcommitteemembersandrefereesfortheire?orts inrefereeingandselectingpapers. Thisvolumewaseditedwithmuchhelpfrom NanetteSaesandHannekeDriever,whiletheconferenceitselfwasrunsmoothly withthehelpofElmarieWillemse,NanetteSaes,andTheoKoopman. VI Foreword WealsowishtothanktheSouthAfricanNRF(forfundingairfares)andthe DepartmentofComputerScience,UniversityofPretoria,fortheir?nancialand logisticsupportoftheconference.WealsothanktheeditorsoftheLectureNotes inComputerScienceseriesandSpringer-Verlag,inparticularAnnaKramer,for theirhelpinpublishingthisvolume. October2002 BruceW. Watson DerickWood CIAA 2001 Program Committee BernardBoigelot Universit'edeLiege,Belgium Jean-MarcChamparnaud Universit'edeRouen,France MaximeCrochemore UniversityofMarne-la-Vall'ee,France OscarIbarra UniversityofCaliforniaatSantaBarbara,USA LauriKarttunen XeroxPaloAltoResearchCenter,USA NilsKlarlund AT&TLaboratories,USA DenisMaurel Universit'edeTours,France MehryarMohri AT&TLaboratories,USA Jean-EricPin Universit'eParis7,France KaiSalomaa Queen'sUniversity,Canada HelmutSeidl TrierUniversity,Germany BruceWatson(Chair) UniversityofPretoria,SouthAfrica EindhovenUniversity,TheNetherlands DerickWood(Co-chair) HongKongUniversityofScience andTechnology,China ShengYu UniversityofWesternOntario,Canada Table of Contents UsingFiniteStateTechnologyinNaturalLanguageProcessingofBasque...1 I"nakiAlegria,MaxuxAranzabe,NereaEzeiza,AitzolEzeiza, andRubenUrizar CascadeDecompositionsareBit-VectorAlgorithms...13 AnneBergeronandSylvieHamel SubmoduleConstructionandSupervisoryControl:AGeneralization...27 Gregorv.Bochmann CountingtheSolutionsofPresburgerEquations withoutEnumeratingThem...40 BernardBoigelotandLouisLatour Brzozowski'sDerivativesExtendedtoMultiplicities...52 Jean-MarcChamparnaudandG'erardDuchamp FiniteAutomataforCompactRepresentation ofLanguageModelsinNLP...65 JanDaciukandGertjanvanNoord PastPushdownTimedAutomata...74 ZheDang,Tev?kBultan,OscarH. Ibarra,andRichardA. Kemmerer SchedulingHardSporadicTasksbyMeans ofFiniteAutomataandGeneratingFunctions...87 Jean-PhilippeDubernardandDominiqueGeniet Bounded-GraphConstruction forNoncanonicalDiscriminating-ReverseParsers...101 JacquesFarr'eandJos'eFortesGalvez ' Finite-StateTransducerCascadetoExtractProperNamesinTexts...115 NathalieFriburgerandDenisMaurel IsthisFinite-StateTransducerSequentiable?...125 Tamas ' Ga'al CompilationMethodsofMinimalAcyclicFinite-StateAutomata forLargeDictionaries...135 JorgeGran "a,Fco. MarioBarcala,andMiguelA. Alonso BitParallelism-NFASimulation...149 JanHolub ImprovingRasterImageRun-LengthEncodingUsingDataOrder...161 MarkusHolzerandMartinKutrib X Table of Contents EnhancementsofPartitioningTechniques forImageCompressionUsingWeightedFiniteAutomata ...177 FrankKatritzke,WolfgangMerzenich,andMichaelThomas Extractionof -CyclesfromFinite-StateTransducers...190 Andr'eKempe OntheSizeofDeterministicFiniteAutomata...202 Bo?rivojMelicharandJanSkryja CrystalLatticeAutomata...214 JimMorey,KamranSedig,RobertE. Mercer,andWayneWilson MinimalAdaptivePattern-MatchingAutomata forE?cientTermRewriting...221 NadiaNedjahandLuizadeMacedoMourelle AdaptiveRule-DrivenDevices-GeneralFormulationandCaseStudy...234 Joao " Jos'eNeto TypographicalNearest-NeighborSearchinaFinite-StateLexicon andItsApplicationtoSpellingCorrection...251 AgataSavary OntheSoftwareDesignofCellularAutomataSimulators forEcologicalModeling...261 YuriVelinov RandomNumberGenerationwith?-NFAs...263 LynettevanZijl SupernondeterministicFiniteAutomata...274 LynettevanZijl Author Index...289 Using Finite State Technology in Natural Language Processing of Basque Iaeaki Alegria, Maxux Aranzabe, Nerea Ezeiza, Aitzol Ezeiza, and Ruben Urizar Ixa taldea, University of the Basque Country, Spain i. alegria@si. ehu. es Abstract.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on the Finite-State-Methods and Natural Language Processing, FSMNLP 2009. The workshop was held at the University of Pretoria, South Africa on July 2009. In total 21 papers were submitted and of those papers 13 were accepted as regular papers and a further 6 as extended abstracts. The papers are devoted to computational morphology, natural language processing, finite-state methods, automata, and related formal language theory.