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>                The Computation of Phonological Constraints
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>                The 4th Meeting of the ACL
>                Special Interest Group in Phonology
>                (http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~sigphon/98)
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>                In conjunction with
>                The COLING-ACL'98 Joint Conference
>                Montreal, Canada, 15th August 1998
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>The Meeting
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>Constraint-based theories of phonology have become enormously popular
>in recent years.  Such theories express generalizations by stating how
>and when a language's phonological forms are constrained, rather than
>relying on rules that actively modify the forms.
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>Computational ideas have often provided an impetus for these
>innovations. Koskenniemi's (1983) 2-level morphophonological processor
>introduced parallel constraining relations as an alternative to an
>ordered system of rewrite rules.  Declarative Phonology (c 1990)
>focusses on the unity of representations and rules as constraints,
>drawing on various computational ideas from unification to temporal
>logic to finite-state calculi.
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>One current constraint-based theories is Optimality Theory (OT)
>(Prince&Smolensky 1993). This theory found, at least partial,
>inspiration in computational work by Smolensky on the relation between
>symbolic and subsymbolic computation. Although this link with
>connectionism has been left largely unexplored, OT has proved to be a
>computationally productive theory, giving rise to several theoretical
>papers on computational issues related to complexity and learnability,
>as well as inspiring a number of implementations.
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>This workshop is designed to foster the link between computational
>work and constraint-based phonology in general. To this end, it
>invites submissions on topics related to the computation of any
>constraint-based phonological formalism, including but not limited to
>the three mentioned above. Here are some example topics:
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>        * the computational interpretation of phonological theories,
>        * constraint ranking and interaction, eg. as in OT,
>        * implementations of particular analyses,
>        * results in the complexity of constraint application,
>        * algorithms for learning constraints or constraint ranking,
>        * results on the learnability of such constraints,
>        * novel formalisms for constraint-based phonology,
>        * representational issues raised by constraint-based approaches.
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>In short, papers are invited which address computational issues in
>constraint-based theories of phonology.
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>Submission
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> What:  original research, not published elsewhere
>        a completed study is prefered to proposals and progress reports
>        originality, topicality and clarity will be the assessment criteria
> How:   submissions must be sent by email to sigphon98@cogsci.ed.ac.uk
> When:  April 20        Submissions due
>        May   22        Notification of acceptance
>        June  23        Final (accepted) versions due
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>Submission Format
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>(Note that apart from the Medium and Length sections, these
>requirements are as for submissions to COLING-ACL98.)
> Medium:        postscript, emailed to sigphon98@cogsci.ed.ac.uk
>                please check postscript compatibility using either
>                ghostview, or by printing the postscript file
>                before sending
> Length:        10 pages maximum (including references and appendices)
>                optional extra page for abstract in a second language
> Paper size:    Please use A4 page-size
> Typesetting:   LaTeX is encouraged, but not required.
> Layout:        set margins so that text lies centred within a rectangle of
>                        6.5 x 9 inches (16.5 x 23 cm)
>                Use Times Roman or Computer Modern font
>                11 to 12 point for text
>                14 to 16 point for headings and title
>                centred page numbers in footers
>                2 columns after title and abstract
>                figures may range across columns
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>Since reviewing will be blind, a separate identification notice should
>be emailed (in ASCII) to sigphon98@cogsci.ed.ac.uk. It should include:
>                title
>                author(s) name(s)
>                affiliation(s)
>                complete addresses
>                abstract in English
>                submission to other conferences ('none' or list)
>                and author of record (for correspondence).
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>Authors should not identify either themselves or their affiliations,
>either directly or indirectly in the body of the text (the postscript
>file).
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>Authors should use the COLING-ACL98 style files and templates for
>preparing submissions (see http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/Styles.html).
>This will help ensure that the layout requirements are met, and that
>the effort required to format the final version will be minimized.
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>Registration
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>Registration is open only to those registered for the main COLING/ACL
>conference (see http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/MainPage.html).
>There will be an additional fee for the workshop (yet to be
>determined). The 1997 ACL workshop fee was US$60.
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>ACL/EACL reserves the right to cancel any workshop if the number of
>participants is below 25 persons.
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>Organisation
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>Organiser:                              T. Mark Ellison (Edinburgh)
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>Organising/Program Committee:           Steven Bird     (Edinburgh)
>                                        Jason Eisner    (Pennsylvania)
>                                        Bruce Tesar     (Rutgers)
>                                        Markus Walther  (Duesseldorf)
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>Correspondence
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>Should be sent to:      SIGPHON98
>                        Centre for Cognitive Science
>                        Edinburgh University
>                        2 Buccleuch Place
>                        Edinburgh EH8 9LW, UK
>                        Tel. +44 (131) 650-4416
>                        Fax. +44 (131) 650-6626
>                        email: sigphon98@cogsci.ed.ac.uk
>                        web: http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~sigphon/98
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>
Lise Menn
Professor and Chair
Linguistics Department - Box 295
University of Colorado
Boulder CO 80309-0295
303-492-1609; fax 303-492-4416

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