(1) Position vacant at Cornell University
(2) Workshop at COLING 2000 (6 August 2000)
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(1)
ONE-SEMESTER visiting position (at the assistant professor level) in
Phonetics available for Spring 2001. Duties include teaching a graduate
introduction to experimental phonetics and an undergraduate introduction
to phonetics and phonology. PhD must be completed by December 2000.
A letter of application, curriculum vitae, one publication, and three
letters of recommendation should be sent to:
Phonetics Search Committee
Department of Linguistics
Morrill Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-4701
To assure fullest consideration, applications should be received by July
31, 2000. Please include a self-addressed postcard for acknowledgement of
receipt.
For more information, contact Abby Cohn at [log in to unmask]
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(2)
This August 6 workshop is held in conjunction with the COLING 2000
conference (which begins July 31), but may be attended separately. Now is
the time to register and make your travel arrangements!
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
FINITE-STATE PHONOLOGY : SIGPHON 2000
Fifth Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group
in Computational Phonology
A full-day workshop held at
COLING 2000
Luxembourg, 6 August 2000
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WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
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This workshop's papers, talks, panels, and discussions will focus on the
growing role of finite-state methods in computational phonology.
Sample topics:
* Finite-state formalizations of phonological frameworks
* Algorithms and theorems about finite-state phonological formalisms
* Embedding finite-state phonology in NLP or speech systems
* The application of finite-state methods to empirical description
(including difficulties, representational encodings, and software
tools)
* Phonologically motivated extensions to finite-state techniques
* Research bearing on whether the finite-state assumptions are
empirically adequate or computationally necessary
A principal goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers from
different traditions. We are particularly interested in understanding and
reconciling the formal linguistic and computational virtues of different
phonological frameworks.
PROGRAM
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Taking Primitive Optimality Theory Beyond the Finite State
Daniel M. Albro
Extends the Primitive Optimality Theory formalism (Eisner 1997) to
handle reduplication. Each candidate set becomes a Multiple Context-
Free Language. Constraints, however, remain finite-state. Efficient
candidate filtering is possible via an extended Earley's algorithm.
Invited talk: Finite-State Non-Concatenative Morphotactics
Kenneth R. Beesley and Lauri Karttunen
A new finite-state technique, "compile-replace", lets a regexp compiler
reapply and modify its own output, freeing morphotactic description to
use any finite-state operation. This provides an elegant solution for
classic examples of non-concatenative phenomena in Malay and Arabic.
Multi-Syllable Phonotactic Modelling
Anja Belz
An approach to describing word-level phonotactics in terms of syllable
classes. Such "multi-syllable" phonotactic models can be expressed in
a formalism that facilitates automatic model construction and
generalisation.
Easy and Hard Constraint Ranking in OT : Algorithms and Complexity
Jason Eisner
A simple version of the automatic constraint ranking problem is
easier than previously known (linear on the number of constraints).
But slightly more realistic versions are as bad as Sigma_2-complete.
Even checking a ranking against data is up to Delta_2-complete.
Invited talk: Approximation and Exactness in Finite State OT
Dale Gerdemann and Gertjan van Noord
Frank & Satta (1998) showed that OT with gradient constraints
generally is not finite-state. We present an improvement of the
approximation of Karttunen (1998). The new method is exact and compact
for the syllabication analysis of Prince and Smolensky (1993).
Temiar Reduplication in One-Level Prosodic Morphology
Markus Walther
This paper presents the first computational analysis of a difficult
piece of prosodic morphology, aspectual reduplication in the Malaysian
language Temiar, using the novel finite-state approach of One-Level
Prosodic Morphology (Walther 1999b, 2000).
Panel: How to Design a Great Workbench Tool for Working Phonologists?
Moderated by Lauri Karttunen, co-author of the Xerox finite-state compiler
Dan Albro, author of the UCLA OTP tool
Ken Beesley, co-author of the Xerox finite-state compiler
Jason Eisner, author of the Primitive OT framework
Dale Gerdemann, co-author of the FSA Utilities toolbox
Arvi Hurskainen, author of tools for African languages
Further discussion of relevant papers from the main conference
General discussion
ORGANIZERS AND PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Lauri Karttunen, Xerox Research Centre Europe (program chair)
Markus Walther, University of Marburg (local chair)
Jason Eisner, University of Rochester (organization)
Alain Theriault, Universite de Montreal (administration)
Daniel Albro, University of California at Los Angeles
Steven Bird, University of Pennsylvania
John Coleman, University of Oxford
Dan Jurafsky, University of Colorado
Andras Kornai, Belmont Research, Cambridge MA
LINKS
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Registration - http://www.coling.org/reg.html
Contact - mailto:[log in to unmask]
Coling 2000 - http://www.coling.org
SIGPHON - http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/sigphon
Luxembourg - http://www.coling.org/lux-links.html
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Lisa Lim
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Assistant Professor
Department of English Language & Literature
National University of Singapore tel +65 8746037
Block AS5, 7 Arts Link fax +65 7732981
Singapore 117570 e-mail [log in to unmask]
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