<OT> 2nd Call for Papers - SIGMORPHON 2010 - Workshop at the ACL, Uppsala, Sweden

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               SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

                     ACL 2010
                 Uppsala, Sweden
                     July 15

               Eleventh Meeting of the
             ACL Special Interest Group
            in Computational Morphology,
              Phonology and Phonetics

   http://phonology.cogsci.udel.edu/sigmorphon2010/




The purpose of the workshop is to bring together researchers interested in
applying computational techniques to problems in morphology, phonology, and
phonetics.  Papers will be on substantial, original, and unpublished
research on these topics, potentially including strong work in progress.
 Appropriate topics include (but are not limited to) the following as they
relate to the areas of the workshop:

* Unsupervised, semi-supervised or machine learning of linguistic
 knowledge
* New formalisms, computational treatments, or probabilistic models
 of existing linguistic formalisms
* Models of psycholinguistic, experimental results
* Models of historical sound change
* Morpheme identification and word segmentation
* Finite-state methods
* Corpus linguistics
* Machine transliteration and back-transliteration
* Speech technologies relating to phonetics or phonology
* Speech science (both production and comprehension)
* Analysis or exploitation of multilingual, multi-dialectal, or
 diachronic data
* Integration of morphology, phonology, or phonetics with other NLP
 tasks
* Tools and resources

One of the missions of SIGMORPHON is to encourage interaction between work
in computational linguistics and work in theoretical phonetics, phonology
and morphology, and to ensure that each of these fields profits from the
interaction. Our recent meetings have been successful in this regard, and we
hope to see this continue in 2010.  Many mainstream linguists studying
phonetics, phonology and morphology are employing computational tools and
models that are of considerable interest to computational linguists.
Similarly, models and tools developed by and for computational linguists may
be of interest to theoretical linguists working in these areas.  This
workshop provides a forum for these researchers to interact and become
exposed to each others' ideas and research.

This workshop will be the eleventh meeting of SIGMORPHON (formerly called
SIGPHON). We will hold a full-day workshop consisting of approximately 12
half-hour presentations.

The workshop will be held on July 15, immediately after the ACL 2010
meetings at Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden.

The workshop website is: http://phonology.cogsci.udel.edu/sigmorphon2010/


Important Dates
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* Submission Deadline: April 25, 2010, 23:59 EDT
* Notification: May 19, 2010
* Camera-ready deadline: June 2, 2010
* Workshop: July 15 or 16, 2010


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. Authors are
encouraged to study the actual form used by reviewers (
http://phonology.cogsci.udel.edu/sigmorphon2010/review-form.html) to assess
papers.

Submission Format: The only accepted format for submitted papers is Adobe
PDF. Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings, and
should not exceed eight (8) pages. One additional page is allowed for the
References section.  Thus, your PDF file may be 9 pages. However, all
material other than the bibliography must fall within the first 8 pages!  We
strongly recommend the use of the LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word
document template that are available on the ACL conference web site (
http://acl2010.org/authors.html).  We reserve the right to reject
submissions that do not conform to these styles, including font size
restrictions.

Anonymous Review: Reviewing of papers will be double-blind. Therefore, the
paper must not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore,
self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously
showed (Smith, 1991) ...", must be avoided. Instead, use citations such as
"Smith (1991) previously showed ...". Papers that do not conform to these
requirements will be rejected without review.

Conflicts of Interest: Authors should mark on the submission page any
program committee member with whom they have a conflict of interest, such as
a recent collaborator, a recent colleague at the same institution, or a
close personal friend.

Double Submitting: Papers that have been or will be submitted to other
meetings or publications must provide this information on the START online
submission page. Papers may not be submitted to SIGMORPHON 2010 if they are
currently or will be submitted to other meetings or publications and that
other meeting or publication prohibits multiple submission. If SIGMORPHON
2010 accepts a paper, authors must notify the program chairs *immediately*
indicating which meeting they choose for presentation of their work.
SIGMORPHON 2010 cannot accept for publication or presentation work that will
be (or has been) published elsewhere.

Submission Procedure: Authors must submit papers online here:
https://www.softconf.com/acl2010/SIGMORPHON

The submission deadline is Sunday April 25, 2010 23:59 EDT. Papers
submitted after the deadline will not be reviewed.

Organizers
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Jeffrey Heinz (University of Delaware)
Lynne Cahill (University of Brighton)
Richard Wicentowski (Swarthmore College)


Program Committee
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This year's program committee consists of the following individuals:

* Adam Albright, MIT
* Jason Eisner, Johns Hopkins University
* Mark Ellison, University of Western Australia
* Sharon Goldwater, University of Edinburgh
* Grzegorz Kondrak, University of Alberta
* Kimmo Koskenniemi, University of Helskinki
* Karen Livescu, Toyota Technological Institute and University of
 Chicago
* Mike Maxwell, University of Maryland
* Jason Riggle, University of Chicago
* Shuly Wintner, University of Haifa

The program chairs may invite additional reviewers as necessary to obtain
relevant expertise and avoid conflicts of interest.
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