SRI International
Jerry R. Hobbs, Douglas E. Appelt, Mabry Tyson, John Bear, David Israël · 1992
FASTUS is a (slightly permuted) acronym for Finite State Automaton Text Understanding System. It is a system for extracting information from free text in English, and potentially other languages as well, for entry into a database, and potentially for other applications. It works essentially as a cascaded, nondeterministic finite state automaton.