Call for Papers

ACL 2008
Tenth Meeting of the
ACL Special Interest Group
in Computational Morphology
and Phonology

Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio
June 19 or 20, 2008

This is SIGMORPHON's first workshop whose scope reflects the SIG's new
charter, which has expanded with ACL's approval to include morphology and
phonetics as well as phonology.

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 Papers will be on substantial, original, and unpublished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:

* New formalisms, or computational treatments of existing linguistic
formalisms
* Probabilistic models and machine learning
* Unsupervised or semi-supervised learning of linguistic knowledge
* Analysis or exploitation of multilingual, multi-dialectal, or
diachronic data
* Algorithms, including finite-state methods
* Speech technologies relating to phonetics or phonology
* Instructional technologies for second-language learners
* Psycholinguistics and speech science (both production and
comprehension)
* Machine transliteration and back-transliteration
* Corpus linguistics
* 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 and empirical
linguistics. Our recent meetings have been successful in this regard, and
we hope to see this continue in 2008. Many mainstream linguists studying
phonetics, phonology, and morphology are now asking and answering
computational questions. We hope that this workshop will allow the CL
community to consider their problems, tools, and models.

This workshop will be the tenth meeting of SIGMORPHON (formerly called
SIGPHON). We will hold a full-day workshop consisting of approximately 10
half-hour presentations.

The workshop will be held on June 19 or 20, immediately after the ACL 2008
meetings at Ohio-State University in Columbus, Ohio.

The workshop website is:
http://phonology.cogsci.udel.edu/sigmorphon2008/

Important Dates
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* Submission Deadline: March 17, 2008, 23:59 EST
* Notification: April 16, 2008
* Camera-ready Copy Due: April 30, 2008
* Workshop: June 19 or 20, 2008


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/sigmorphon2008/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://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/acl08/stylefiles.html). We reserve the
right to reject submissions that do not conform to these styles, including
font size restrictions.

Anonymous Review: The paper should not include the authors' names and
affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's
identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", should be
avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith,
1991) ...". 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 2008 if they are
currently or will be submitted to other meetings or publications and that
other meeting or publication prohibits multiple submission. If SIGMORPHON
2008 accepts a paper, authors must notify the program chairs *immediately*
indicating which meeting they choose for presentation of their
work. SIGMORPHON 2008 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/acl08/ACL08-WS06/submit.html

The submission deadline is Monday March 17, 2008 23:59 EST. Papers
submitted after the deadline will not be reviewed.

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

Adam Albright, MIT
Lynne Cahill, University of Brighton
Mathias Creutz, Helsinki University of Technology
Jason Eisner, Johns Hopkins University (co-chair)
Mark Ellison, University of Western Australia
Eric Fosler-Lussier, Ohio State University
John Goldsmith, University of Chicago
Sharon Goldwater, Stanford University
Nizar Habash, Columbia University
Jeffrey Heinz, University of Delaware (co-chair)
Katrin Kirchhoff, University of Washington
Greg Kondrak, University of Alberta
Kimmo Koskenniemi, University of Helskinki
Ying Lin, University of Arizona
Mike Maxwell, University of Maryland
John Nerbonne, University of Groningen
Kemal Oflazer, Sabanci University
Gerald Penn, University of Toronto
Jason Riggle, University of Chicago
Richard Sproat, University of Illinois
Richard Wicentowski, Swarthmore University
Shuly Wintner, University of Haifai

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