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<div dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div class="gmail_quote">Apologies for multiple postings<br>--------------------------------------------<br><br> 2014 Joint Meeting of SIGMORPHON and SIGFSM<br>
MORPHFSM 2014<br> 2nd Call for Papers<br><br> ACL 2014<br> Baltimore, Maryland, USA<br> June 27, 2014<br>
<br><br>Thirteenth Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group<br>in Computational Morphology, Phonology and Phonetics<br>jointly with the ACL Special Interest Group on Finite-State Methods<br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">
Keynote speaker<br>-------------------------<br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Jason Eisner (Johns Hopkins University) agreed to give the keynote speech.<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">
Overview<br>-------------<br>The purpose of the joint workshop is to bring together researchers<br>interested in applying computational techniques to problems in<br>morphology, phonology, and phonetics and researchers interested in<br>
applying finite-state methods to problems in natural language<br>processing. Research papers will be on substantial, original, and<br>unpublished research, potentially including strong work in progress.<br>Panel papers will identify open problems of significant interest.<br>
Appropriate topics include (but are not limited to) the following as<br>they relate to the areas of SIGMORPHON and SIGFSM:<br><br>* Unsupervised, semi-supervised, or machine learning of linguistic<br> knowledge and finite-state models<br>
* New formalisms, computational treatments, or probabilistic<br> models of linguistic generalizations<br>* Finite-state models of language<br>* Practices for building and evaluating morphological models for the<br> world's languages using finite-state technology<br>
* Models or analysis of psycholinguistic, experimental results<br>* Morpheme identification and word segmentation<br>* Machine transliteration, back-transliteration, G2P, P2G<br>* Speech science or technologies relating to phonetics or phonology<br>
* Analysis or exploitation of multilingual, multi-dialectal, or<br> diachronic data<br>* Integration of morphology, phonology, phonetics, or finite-state<br> methods with other NLP tasks<br>* Tools, resources and finite-state manipulation software<br>
<br>One of the missions of SIGMORPHON is to encourage interaction between<br>work in computational linguistics and work in theoretical phonetics,<br>phonology and morphology, and to ensure that each of these fields<br>profits from the interaction. Recent SIGMORPHON meetings have been<br>
successful in this regard, and we hope to see this continue in 2014.<br>Similarly, SIGFSM aims to bolster interaction and exchange between<br>computational linguistics, theoretical linguistics, and theoretical<br>computer science. This 1-day workshop, endorsed by both SIGMORPHON<br>
and SIGFSM, is a strong step towards establishing a meeting point<br>where these communities learn from each other's experience, exchange<br>ideas, and follow the advances in research groups working on different<br>but related fields.<br>
<br>This workshop will be the thirteenth meeting of SIGMORPHON (formerly<br>called SIGPHON) and an off-year event for SIGFSM. It will be a full-<br>day workshop consisting of invited presentations, contributed<br>presentations, and a special panel session on open problems.<br>
<br>The workshop will be held on June 27, 2014 immediately after the<br>ACL 2014 meeting at Marriott Waterfront, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.<br><br>The workshop website is:<br> <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/morphfsm2014/" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/morphfsm2014/</a><br>
<br>The organizers can be contacted at<br> <a href="mailto:morphfsm.acl2014@gmail.com" target="_blank">morphfsm.acl2014@gmail.com</a>.<br><br>Important Dates<br>---------------<br><br>* Submission Deadline: March 21, 2014, 23:59 EDT<br>
* Notification: April 11, 2014<br>* Camera-ready deadline: April 28, 2014<br>* Workshop: June 27, 2014<br><br>Paper Submission<br>---------------------------<br>Content: In 2014 we will have 2 paper categories --- research papers<br>
and panel papers on open problems. Research papers should be original,<br>topical, and clear. Completed work is preferable to intended work,<br>but in any event the paper should clearly indicate the state of<br>completion of the reported results. Panel papers on open problems in<br>
computational work in phonology, morphology, and phonetics and related<br>finite-state techniques should identify significant open problems and<br>helps focus the future efforts of these two communities.<br><br>Submission Format: The only accepted format for submitted papers is<br>
Adobe PDF. Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL<br>proceedings. Research papers should not exceed eight (8) pages, and<br>panel papers should not exceed four (4) pages. Any number of<br>additional pages is allowed for the References section, but all<br>
material other than the bibliography must fall within the first<br>8 (research papers) or 4 (panel papers) pages! We strongly recommend<br>the use of the LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word document template<br>that are available on the ACL conference web site<br>
(<a href="http://www.cs.jhu.edu/ACL2014/CallforPapers.htm" target="_blank">http://www.cs.jhu.edu/ACL2014/CallforPapers.htm</a>). We reserve the<br>right to reject submissions that do not conform to these styles,<br>including font size restrictions.<br>
<br>Anonymous Review: Reviewing of papers will be double-blind. Therefore,<br>submission must not include the authors' names and affiliations.<br>Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g.,<br>
"We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", must be avoided. Instead,<br>use citations such as "Smith (1991) previously showed ...". Papers<br>that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without<br>
review.<br><br>Conflicts of Interest: Authors should mark on the submission page any<br>program committee member with whom they have a conflict of interest,<br>such as a recent collaborator, a recent colleague at the same<br>
institution, or a close personal friend.<br><br>Double Submitting: Papers that have been or will be submitted to other<br>meetings or publications must provide this information on the START<br>online submission page. Papers may not be submitted to workshop if<br>
they are currently or will be submitted to other meetings or<br>publications and that other meeting or publication prohibits multiple<br>submission. If such a submission is accepted at the workshop, the<br>authors must notify the organizers *immediately* indicating which<br>
meeting they choose for presentation of their work. The workshop<br>cannot accept for publication or presentation work that will be<br>(or has been) published elsewhere.<br><br>Presentation: Accepted research papers will be presented orally and/or<br>
on posters as usual. Detailed instructions will be made available<br>later on. Accepted panel papers will be presented in a panel setting,<br>with each panelist having 10 minutes for presentation with at least<br>30 minutes for substantial Q&A and discussion occuring after a block<br>
of these panel presentations.<br><br>Online submission is available at<br> <a href="https://www.softconf.com/acl2014/MORPHFSM" target="_blank">https://www.softconf.com/acl2014/MORPHFSM</a>.<br><br>The submission deadline is<br>
Friday, March 21, 2014 23:59 EDT.<br>Papers submitted after the deadline will not be reviewed.<br><br>Organizers<br>-----------------<br><br>Özlem Çetinoğlu (University of Stuttgart, Germany)<br>Jeffrey Heinz (University of Delaware, Delaware, USA)<br>
Andreas Maletti (University of Stuttgart, Germany)<br>Jason Riggle (University of Chicago, Illinois, USA)<br><br>Program Committee<br>-----------------------------<br><br>* Adam Albright, MIT, USA<br>* Lynne Cahill, University of Sussex, UK<br>
* Francisco Casacuberta, Instituto Tecnológico de Informática, Spain<br>* Özlem Çetinoğlu, University of Stuttgart, Germany (co-organizer)<br>* Jason Eisner, Johns Hopkins University, USA<br>* Roger Evans, University of Brighton, UK<br>
* Jeffrey Heinz, University of Delaware, USA (co-organizer)<br>* Colin de la Higuera, University of Nantes, France<br>* Mans Hulden, Ikerbasque, Spain<br>* André Kempe, Nuance Communications, Germany<br>* Grzegorz Kondrak, University of Alberta, Canada<br>
* Kimmo Koskenniemi, University of Helskinki, Finland<br>* Marco Kuhlmann, Linköping University, Sweden<br>* Karen Livescu, Toyota Technological Institute at U. Chicago, USA<br>* Giorgio Magri, IJN, ENS, France<br>* Andreas Maletti, University of Stuttgart, Germany (co-organizer)<br>
* Mark-Jan Nederhof, University of St. Andrews, UK<br>* Kemal Oflazer, Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar<br>* Katya Pertsova, University of North Carolina, USA<br>* Jason Riggle, University of Chicago, USA (co-organizer)<br>
* Max Silberztein, Université de Franche-Comté, France<br>* Richard Sproat, Google, USA<br>* Shuly Wintner, University of Haifa, Israel<br>* Anssi Yli-Jyrä, University of Helsinki, Finland<br>* Kristine Yu, University of Massachussetts, Amherst, USA<br>
<br>The organizers may invite additional reviewers as necessary to obtain<br>relevant expertise and avoid conflicts of interest.</div></div></div>