Presented by Robert Muir and Michael Mccandless, Lucid,IBM - See conference video - http://www.lucidimagination.com/devzone/events/conferences/lucene-revolution-2012 Finite-state technology, including automata and weighted finite state transducers (wFSTs), are compact data structures well suited to text processing and searching applications. Low level support for both automata and wFSTs is now ava