[Corpora-List] FSMNLP 2012 - Second call for papers

[Koldo Gojenola]

                      "2nd CALL FOR PAPERS"
Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing - FSMNLP 2012
                    Tenth International Workshop
      University of the Basque Country, Donostia - San Sebastián
                         July 23-25, 2012
                 http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/fsmnlp2012/


INTRODUCTION

The International Workshop Series of Finite-State Methods and Natural
Language Processing (FSMNLP) is the premier forum of the ACL Special
Interest Group on Finite-State Methods (SIGFSM).  It serves researchers and
practitioners working on

     * natural language processing (NLP) applications or language resources
     * theoretical and implementation aspects, or
     * their combinations

that have obvious relevance or an explicitly discussed relation to
Finite-State Methods in NLP. This year, the Finite-State Methods and Natural
Language Processing (FSMNLP) workshop is part of the Alan Turing Year on the
occasion of the Centenary Celebration of his life and work.


TOPICS

FSMNLP invites papers related to themes including but not limited to:

     * NLP applications and linguistic aspects of finite-state methods
     * Finite-state models of language
     * Practices for building morphological models for the world's languages
     using finite-state technology
     * Machine learning of finite-state models of natural language
     * Finite-state manipulation software and tools with relevance to NLP


==== SPECIAL THEME: FINITE-STATE NLP IN PRACTICE ====

FSMNLP 2012 will have a special focus on the following topics:

     * Practical implementations of linguistic descriptions with finite-state
     technology, including grammars, machine learning tools, language-specific
     challenges to finite-state NLP
     * Software tools and utilities for finite-state NLP
     * Finite-state models of linguistic theories
     * Applications of finite-state-based NLP in closely related fields such
     as comparative linguistics, text processing, field linguistics, applied
     linguistics, language teaching, and computer-aided translation.

The special theme does not restrict the scope of papers; rather, the purpose
is to attract, apart from other topics, a variety of submissions relating to
any practical dimension of finite-state NLP.  Especially welcome are
succinct short paper (see format below) submissions focused on some specific
practical aspect or solution of finite-state NLP. This could be related to
e.g. a grammar, a linguistic phenomenon, a linguistic modeling problem, a
machine learning problem, or a software tool that implements or uses
finite-state technology. We hope that the theme provides us with the
possibility of organizing suitable poster, short presentation, and demo
sessions related to particular practical problems.

For example, today, a large number of languages have
morphological/phonological models based on finite-state technology.  While
most such implementations follow standard design patterns, many grammars
also contain elegant non-trivial solutions to some language-specific
modeling problem (vowel harmony, reduplication, long-distance agreement,
opaque phonological alternations, free variation, morphosyntactic
restrictions, etc.).  For this year's FSMNLP, we encourage submissions of
short papers that focus on documenting such solutions, at the same time
providing context by summarizing the development and implementation of the
overall grammar.


PREVIOUS EDITIONS

Nine FSMNLP workshops have been organized in the past in: Blois (2011),
Pretoria (2009), Ispra (2008), Potsdam (2007), Helsinki (2005), Budapest
(2003), Helsinki (2001), Ankara (1998), Budapest (1996).


RELATED EVENTS

FSMNLP 2012 will be organized shortly before CIAA.  The 17th International
Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata (CIAA) will take
place in Porto, Portugal on July 17-20, 2012 (800 km from Donostia-San
Sebastián).

These consecutive periods as well as the European locations facilitate the
attendance at both conferences.


IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline: April 23, 2012
Notification: May 31, 2012
Camera-ready Version: June 18, 2012

Workshop Dates:
July 23: tutorials&    mini-workshops.
July 24-25: main session, poster and demo sessions.


SUBMISSIONS

Papers should present original, unpublished research and implementation
results. Simultaneous submission to other venues with published proceedings
is prohibited. FSMNLP accepts two kinds of submissions:

     * full papers (8 pages + references) reporting completed, significant research,
     * short papers (4 pages + references) reporting ongoing work and partial
     results, implementations, grammars, practical tools, interactive software demos, etc.

Short papers are expected to be presented as system demos in a demo session,
posters and/or short presentations, while long papers are presented in a
longer presentation session.  Both paper types are published in the ACL
anthology.

All submissions are electronic and in PDF format via a web-based submission
server.  Authors are strongly encouraged to use ACL (2012) style (available
for LaTeX and Word) in producing the PDF document.  These templates are
available at:

http://acl2012.org/call/sub01.asp

Information about the author(s) and other identifying information such as
obvious self-references (e.g., "We showed in [12] ...") and financial or
personal acknowledgements should be omitted in the submitted papers whenever
feasible.

Papers will be submitted electronically in PDF using the EasyChair
system. The paper can contain a clearly marked appendix and data files to
support your claims.  This material will not be published.  While reviewers
are urged to consult this extra material for better comprehension, it is at
their discretion whether they do so. Such extra material should also be
anonymized to the extent feasible.

Use the following link for submission:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fsmnlp2012

The papers and abstracts will be published in FSMNLP 2012 proceedings and
archived in the ACL Anthology.  The publication of selected, revised
versions of accepted papers in a special journal issue is planned.


INVITED SPEAKERS

Kimmo Koskenniemi (University of Helsinki)


TUTORIALS

We have planned a series of short tutorials (30-60 min. each) addressing
some specific application or topic in a concise manner. So far, the
following tutorials are planned:

    * Spelling and grammar correction with FSTs (Iñaki Alegria, Mans Hulden)
    * Probabilistic parsing with weighted FSTs (Miikka Silfverberg, University
    of Helsinki)
    * Machine learning of automata and transducers


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Iñaki Alegria (University of the Basque Country)
Kenneth R. Beesley (SAP Business Objects, USA)
Francisco Casacuberta (Instituto Tecnológico de Informática, Spain)
Jan Daciuk (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland)
Frank Drewes (Umea University, Sweden)
Dale Gerdemann (University of Tübingen, Germany)
Mike Hammond (University of Arizona, USA)
Thomas Hanneforth (University of Potsdam, Germany)
Colin de la Higuera (University of Nantes, France)
Jan Holub (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic)
Mans Hulden (Ikerbasque, Basque Country)
André Kempe (CADEGE Technologies&    Consulting, France)
Andras Kornai (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary)
Andreas Maletti (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Mark-Jan Nederhof (University of St Andrews, Scotland)
Kemal Oflazer (Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar)
Maite Oronoz (University of the Basque Country)
Laurette Pretorius (University of South Africa, South Africa)
Strahil Ristov (Ruder Boskovic Institute, Croatia)
Frederique Segond Frederique (ObjectDirect, France)
Max Silberztein (Université de Franche-Comté, France)
Richard Sproat (Oregon Health and Science University, USA)
Trond Trosterud (University of Tromso, Norway)
Shuly Wintner (University of Haifa, Israel)
Anssi Yli-Jyra (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Menno van Zaanen (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
Lynette van Zijl (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Iñaki Alegria (University of the Basque Country)
Koldo Gojenola (University of the Basque Country)
Izaskun Etxeberria (University of the Basque Country)
Nerea Ezeiza (University of the Basque Country)
Mans Hulden (Ikerbasque)
Amaia Lorenzo (University of the Basque Country)
Esther Miranda (University of the Basque Country)
Maite Oronoz (University of the Basque Country)

Further information about the conference is available at the FSMNLP
Conference website:

http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/fsmnlp2012/
E-mail:ixa at ehu.es


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