<OT> 2nd call for papers: Computational phonology

[John Goldsmith]

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                              Call for Papers
 
 
 
                                 ACL-2004
 
                     Workshop on Computational Phonology
 
                             Barcelona, Spain
                              July 26, 2004
                         Seventh Meeting of the
          ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Phonology
 
 
Workshop Description and Motivation
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The workshop will be devoted to all areas of computation, as applied
to contemporary phonology and morphology. Papers will be on
substantial, original, and unpublished research on any aspect of
computational phonology and computational morphology, including, but
not limited to, the topics listed below, focusing on recent
developments since our last meeting at ACL (Philadelphia) in 2002:
 
* Speech technologies relating to phonology
* Unsupervised learning of phonotactics, morphology, and phonology
* Stochastic or probabilistic phonology
* Computational evolutionary modeling of phonological systems
* Language-independent learning algorithms relating to computational
phonology
* Finite-state formalizations of phonology
* Computational morphology and morphological modeling
* Speech generation
* Assistive learning tools for second language speakers
 
This workshop will be the seventh meeting of SIGPHON, the ACL Special
Interest Group in Computational Phonology.  We will hold a full-day
workshop consisting of approximately 12 half-hour presentations plus an
invited speaker.
 
The principal goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers in
the area of computational phonology.  Computational phonology is a
important and recognized subfield of computational linguistics, but has
received little attention at recent ACL meetings.  We expect the
workshop
to facilitate interactions among computational phonologists who are
attending ACL, and to attract more attendance by computational
phonologists.
 
The workshop will be held on either July 25 or 26, immediately after
the ACL-04 meetings in Barcelona, Spain.
 
The workshop website is:
http://www.cs.swarthmore.edu/~richardw/sigphon04/
The SIGPHON website is: http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/sigphon/
The ACL 2004 website is: http://www.acl2004.org
 
 
Organizers and Program Committee
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SIGPHON has sponsored six previous workshops, most recently co-located
with ACL in Philadelphia in 2002, and including Luxembourg (COLING) in
2000, and Montreal (ACL) in 1998.
 
The members of the SIGPHON Executive Committee have a wide range of
research experience, covering not only computational phonology and
morphology, but also related areas such as phonological field work,
phonetics, statistics, psycholinguistics, and engineering.  They are:
 
Paul Boersma, University of Amsterdam (paul.boersma at uva.nl)
Julie Carson-Berndsen, University College Dublin (julie.berndsen at ucd.ie)
John Coleman, University of Oxford (john.coleman at phon.ox.ac.uk)
Jason Eisner, The Johns Hopkins University (jason at cs.jhu.edu)
John Goldsmith, University of Chicago (ja-goldsmith at uchicago.edu)
Richard Wicentowski, Swarthmore College (richardw at cs.swarthmore.edu)
 
The organizers will be Richard Wicentowski and John Goldsmith.
 
The Executive Committee will appoint a program committee that will be
responsible for selection of the papers.  The program chair may invite
additional reviewers as necessary to obtain relevant expertise and avoid
conflicts of interest.
 
The program committee will consist of all members of the executive
plus the following individuals:
 
Adam Albright, University of California at Santa Cruz
(albright at ucsc.edu) (unconfirmed)
Steven Bird, University of Melbourne (sb at cs.mu.oz.au)
Bruce Hayes, University of California at Los Angeles
(bhayes at humnet.ucla.edu)
Lauri Karttunen, Palo Alto Research Center (karttunen at parc.xerox.com)
Mike Maxwell, Linguistic Data Consortium (maxwell at ldc.upenn.edu)
Kemal Oflazer, Sabanci University  (oflazer at sabanciuniv.edu)
Janet Pierrehumbert, Northwestern University (phumbert at wotan.ens.fr)
Richard Sproat, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(rws at uiuc.edu)
David Yarowsky, The Johns Hopkins University (yarowsky at cs.jhu.edu)
(unconfirmed)
 
 
Schedule
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* Submission Deadline: April 16, 2004
* Notification: May 7, 2004
* Camera-ready Copy Due: May 24, 2004
* Workshop: July 25 or 26, 2004
 
 
Paper Submission
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Content: Papers should be original, topical, and clear.  Completed work
is preferable to intended work, but in any event the paper should
clearly
indicate the state of completion of the reported results.
 
Dual Submission: Papers which are submitted to the ACL 2004 general
conference may be submitted to SIGPHON 2004 with the following
guidelines:
 1. Authors must indicate whether their papers are also under
    consideration for ACL 2004.
 2. Authors must notify SIGPHON as soon as they learn whether the paper
    has been accepted or rejected at ACL 2004.  If the paper will
    appear at ACL, it must be withdrawn from SIGPHON.
 
Length: Submissions should be full-length papers, up to a maximum of 8
pages.  (The final version in the proceedings should incorporate
reviewers' suggestions and may be up to 10 pages.)  High-quality short
papers of 4 to 5 pages will also be considered.
 
Layout: Except for length, papers must conform to ACL 2004 formatting
guidelines, available at http://www.acl2004.org.
 
Electronic Submission: All submissions will be electronic.  Reviews
will be blind, so be careful not to disclose authorship or
affiliation.  PDF submissions are preferred over PostScript
submissions and will be required for the final camera-ready copy. 
Submissions should be sent as an attachment to
sigphon04 at cs.swarthmore.edu.  Please be sure to include accurate
contact information in the body of the email.
 
 
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