Selected operations and applications of n-tape weighted finite-state machines

  • Authors:
  • André Kempe

  • Affiliations:
  • Cadège Technologies, Paris, France

  • Venue:
  • FSMNLP'09 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Finite-state methods and natural language processing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

A weighted finite-state machine with n tapes (n-WFSM) defines a rational relation on n strings. The paper recalls important operations on these relations, and an algorithm for their auto-intersection. Through a series of practical applications, it investigates the augmented descriptive power of n-WFSMs, w.r.t. classical 1- and 2-WFSMs (weighted acceptors and transducers). Some of the presented applications are not feasible with the latter.