2nd Call for Papers for MORPHFSM 2014 [SIGMORPHON & SIGFSM]

Wed Jan 29 10:59:32 UTC 2014

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       2014 Joint Meeting of SIGMORPHON and SIGFSM
                             MORPHFSM 2014
                             2nd Call for Papers

                                  ACL 2014
                        Baltimore, Maryland, USA
                               June 27, 2014

Thirteenth Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group
in Computational Morphology, Phonology and Phonetics
jointly with the ACL Special Interest Group on Finite-State Methods

Keynote speaker
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Jason Eisner (Johns Hopkins University) agreed to give the keynote speech.

Overview
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The purpose of the joint workshop is to bring together researchers
interested in applying computational techniques to problems in
morphology, phonology, and phonetics and researchers interested in
applying finite-state methods to problems in natural language
processing.  Research papers will be on substantial, original, and
unpublished research, potentially including strong work in progress.
Panel papers will identify open problems of significant interest.
Appropriate topics include (but are not limited to) the following as
they relate to the areas of SIGMORPHON and SIGFSM:

* Unsupervised, semi-supervised, or machine learning of linguistic
  knowledge and finite-state models
* New formalisms, computational treatments, or probabilistic
  models of linguistic generalizations
* Finite-state models of language
* Practices for building and evaluating morphological models for the
  world's languages using finite-state technology
* Models or analysis of psycholinguistic, experimental results
* Morpheme identification and word segmentation
* Machine transliteration, back-transliteration, G2P, P2G
* Speech science or technologies relating to phonetics or phonology
* Analysis or exploitation of multilingual, multi-dialectal, or
  diachronic data
* Integration of morphology, phonology, phonetics, or finite-state
  methods with other NLP tasks
* Tools, resources and finite-state manipulation software

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.  Recent SIGMORPHON meetings have been
successful in this regard, and we hope to see this continue in 2014.
Similarly, SIGFSM aims to bolster interaction and exchange between
computational linguistics, theoretical linguistics, and theoretical
computer science.  This 1-day workshop, endorsed by both SIGMORPHON
and SIGFSM, is a strong step towards establishing a meeting point
where these communities learn from each other's experience, exchange
ideas, and follow the advances in research groups working on different
but related fields.

This workshop will be the thirteenth meeting of SIGMORPHON (formerly
called SIGPHON) and an off-year event for SIGFSM.  It will be a full-
day workshop consisting of invited presentations, contributed
presentations, and a special panel session on open problems.

The workshop will be held on June 27, 2014 immediately after the
ACL 2014 meeting at Marriott Waterfront, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

The workshop website is:
    https://sites.google.com/site/morphfsm2014/

The organizers can be contacted at
    morphfsm.acl2014 at gmail.com.

Important Dates
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* Submission Deadline:   March 21, 2014, 23:59 EDT
* Notification:                  April 11, 2014
* Camera-ready deadline: April 28, 2014
* Workshop:                   June 27, 2014

Paper Submission
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Content: In 2014 we will have 2 paper categories --- research papers
and panel papers on open problems.  Research 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.  Panel papers on open problems in
computational work in phonology, morphology, and phonetics and related
finite-state techniques should identify significant open problems and
helps focus the future efforts of these two communities.

Submission Format: The only accepted format for submitted papers is
Adobe PDF.  Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL
proceedings.  Research papers should not exceed eight (8) pages, and
panel papers should not exceed four (4) pages.  Any number of
additional pages is allowed for the References section, but all
material other than the bibliography must fall within the first
8 (research papers) or 4 (panel papers) 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://www.cs.jhu.edu/ACL2014/CallforPapers.htm).  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,
submission 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 workshop if
they are currently or will be submitted to other meetings or
publications and that other meeting or publication prohibits multiple
submission.  If such a submission is accepted at the workshop, the
authors must notify the organizers *immediately* indicating which
meeting they choose for presentation of their work.  The workshop
cannot accept for publication or presentation work that will be
(or has been) published elsewhere.

Presentation: Accepted research papers will be presented orally and/or
on posters as usual.  Detailed instructions will be made available
later on.  Accepted panel papers will be presented in a panel setting,
with each panelist having 10 minutes for presentation with at least
30 minutes for substantial Q&A and discussion occuring after a block
of these panel presentations.

Online submission is available at
    https://www.softconf.com/acl2014/MORPHFSM.

The submission deadline is
    Friday, March 21, 2014 23:59 EDT.
Papers submitted after the deadline will not be reviewed.

Organizers
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Özlem Çetinoğlu (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Jeffrey Heinz (University of Delaware, Delaware, USA)
Andreas Maletti (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Jason Riggle (University of Chicago, Illinois, USA)

Program Committee
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* Adam Albright, MIT, USA
* Lynne Cahill, University of Sussex, UK
* Francisco Casacuberta, Instituto Tecnológico de Informática, Spain
* Özlem Çetinoğlu, University of Stuttgart, Germany (co-organizer)
* Jason Eisner, Johns Hopkins University, USA
* Roger Evans, University of Brighton, UK
* Jeffrey Heinz, University of Delaware, USA (co-organizer)
* Colin de la Higuera, University of Nantes, France
* Mans Hulden, Ikerbasque, Spain
* André Kempe, Nuance Communications, Germany
* Grzegorz Kondrak, University of Alberta, Canada
* Kimmo Koskenniemi, University of Helskinki, Finland
* Marco Kuhlmann, Linköping University, Sweden
* Karen Livescu, Toyota Technological Institute at U. Chicago, USA
* Giorgio Magri, IJN, ENS, France
* Andreas Maletti, University of Stuttgart, Germany (co-organizer)
* Mark-Jan Nederhof, University of St. Andrews, UK
* Kemal Oflazer, Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar
* Katya Pertsova, University of North Carolina, USA
* Jason Riggle, University of Chicago, USA (co-organizer)
* Max Silberztein, Université de Franche-Comté, France
* Richard Sproat, Google, USA
* Shuly Wintner, University of Haifa, Israel
* Anssi Yli-Jyrä, University of Helsinki, Finland
* Kristine Yu, University of Massachussetts, Amherst, USA

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