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Call For Papers
17th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology
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co-located with ACL 2020
Seattle, USA
July 9 or 10, 2020
https://sigmorphon.github.io/workshops/2020/
SIGMORPHON 2018: 15th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology - SIGMORPHON - Special Interest Group on Computational Morphology and Phonology
Special Interest Group on Computational Morphology and Phonology. co-located with EMNLP 2018 Brussels, Belgium October 31, 2018 (Program here) (Register through EMNLP)The workshop will gather researchers who apply computation to morphology, phonology, and phonetics.
sigmorphon.github.io
The workshop will gather researchers who apply computation to morphology, phonology, and phonetics. Work that addresses orthographic issues is also welcome. Papers will present significant, original, and unpublished research, including strong work in progress. Appropriate topics include (but are not limited to) the following:
• New formalisms, computational treatments, or probabilistic models of existing linguistic formalisms
• Unsupervised, semi-supervised or machine learning of linguistic knowledge
• Models of psycholinguistic experiments
• Morpheme identification and word segmentation
• Algorithms, including 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
• Instructional technologies for second-language learners
• Integration of morphology, phonology, or phonetics with other NLP tasks
• Tools and resources
• Approaches to orthographic variation
• Approaches to universal morphological reinflection
SIGMORPHON encourages interaction between work in computational and theoretical linguistics. Approaches to phonetics, phonology, and morphology profit from the interaction. Our recent meetings have been successful in this regard, and this will continue in 2020. The workshop allows cross-pollination of tools and models between theoretical and computational linguists.
Important Dates
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31 March, 2020: Paper submission deadline
4 May 2020: Notification of acceptance
18 May 2020: Camera-ready papers due
9 or 10 July 2020: Workshop
Paper Submission
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Content: There are two categories of papers: Long and short papers. Long papers should be original, topical, and clear. Completed work is preferable to intended work. Either way, the paper must disclose the state of completion of the reported results. Short submissions can either cover research or describe important problems (new or old).
Submission format: The only accepted format for submitted papers is Adobe PDF. Submissions should be anonymous, without authors or an acknowledgement section; self-citations should appear in third person. Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings, and long papers should not exceed eight (8) pages, short papers should not exceed four (4) pages. One additional page is allowed for the References section in both cases. However, all material other than the bibliography must fall within the first 8/4 pages! We strongly recommend the use of the LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word document template on the ACL conference web site. We reserve the right to reject submissions that do not conform to these styles, including font size restrictions.
IMPORTANT: New submission guidelines
ACL 2020 adopts ACL’s new policies for submission, review, and citation. Submissions that violate any of these policies will be rejected without review. Most importantly, the policies refer to the anonymity period, which begins one month before the SIGMORPHON 2020 deadline and ends at time of notification (or withdrawal).
Online submission is available at: https://www.softconf.com/acl2019/sigmorphon/
Organizers
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Garrett Nicolai, UBC
Kyle Gorman, CUNY / Google
Ryan Cotterell, University of Cambridge
Invited Speakers:
SIGMORPHON is delighted to welcome the following invited speakers in 2020:
* Jane Chandlee, Haverford College
* Bruce Hayes, UCLA
* Rob Malouf, San Diego State University
Shared Tasks: Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion and Unsupervised Paradigm Induction
SIGMORPHON will host two shared tasks, one on grapheme-to-phoneme conversion and one on unsupervised induction of morphological paradigms. More information is available at: https://sigmorphon.github.io/sharedtasks/2020/