StatFSM 2016 - Workshop on statistical NLP and weighted automata

The ACL special interest group on finite-state machines is organizing a one-day workshop on statistical natural language processing and weighted automata co-located with ACL 2016 in Berlin. Topics include but are not limited to:
weighted automata, their theory and applications,
statistical NLP; in particular approaches using finite-state techniques,
the formal relation between statistical models and weighted automata,
automata-based implementations or approximations of statistical methods,
machine learning of finite-state models of natural language.
Special Theme: Automata-based techniques in optical character recognition
Optical character recognition (OCR) has become an important research area in natural language processing. We meet this development with a special theme on automata-based techniques in OCR, including topics such as:
systems and frameworks for OCR or optical layout recognition (OLR), particularly those with a connection to automata-based methods,
statistical approaches to automated document analysis,
supervised or unsupervised extraction of lexica, language- or error-models for OCR post-correction,
systems and frameworks for post-correction or segmentation of OCR output texts, especially those making use of finite-state automata.