Invited Lectures -- Characterizations of Regularity -- Finnish Optimality-Theoretic Prosody -- Contributed Papers -- Partitioning Multitape Transducers -- Squeezing the Infinite into the Finite -- A Novel Approach to Computer-Assisted Translation Based on Finite-State Transducers -- Finite-State Registered Automata and Their Uses in Natural Languages -- TAGH: A Complete Morphology for German Based on Weighted Finite State Automata -- Klex: A Finite-State Transducer Lexicon of Korean -- Longest-Match Pattern Matching with Weighted Finite State Automata -- Finite-State Syllabification -- Algorithms for Minimum Risk Chunking -- Collapsing ?-Loops in Weighted Finite-State Machines -- WFSM Auto-intersection and Join Algorithms -- Further Results on Syntactic Ambiguity of Internal Contextual Grammars -- Error-Driven Learning with Bracketing Constraints -- Parsing with Lexicalized Probabilistic Recursive Transition Networks -- Integrating a POS Tagger and a Chunker Implemented as Weighted Finite State Machines -- Modelling the Semantics of Calendar Expressions as Extended Regular Expressions -- Using Finite State Technology in a Tool for Linguistic Exploration -- Applying a Finite Automata Acquisition Algorithm to Named Entity Recognition -- Principles, Implementation Strategies, and Evaluation of a Corpus Query System -- On Compact Storage Models for Gazetteers -- German Compound Analysis with wfsc -- Scaling an Irish FST Morphology Engine for Use on Unrestricted Text -- Improving Inter-level Communication in Cascaded Finite-State Partial Parsers -- Pivotal Synchronization Languages: A Framework for Alignments -- Abstracts of Interactive Presentations -- A Complete FS Model for Amharic Morphographemics -- Tagging with Delayed Disambiguation -- A New Algorithm for Unsupervised Induction of ConcatenativeMorphology -- Morphological Parsing of Tone: An Experiment with Two-Level Morphology on the Ha Language -- Describing Verbs in Disjoining Writing Systems -- An FST Grammar for Verb Chain Transfer in a Spanish-Basque MT System -- Finite State Transducers Based on k-TSS Grammars for Speech Translation -- Abstracts of Software Demos -- Unsupervised Morphology Induction Using Morfessor -- SProUT - A General-Purpose NLP Framework Integrating Finite-State and Unification-Based Grammar Formalisms -- Tool Demonstration: Functional Morphology -- From Xerox to Aspell: A First Prototype of a North Sámi Speller Based on TWOL Technology -- A Programming Language for Finite State Transducers -- FIRE Station.