[Sigwac] Deadline extension: Finite-State Methods and Natural Language P=?UTF-8?Q?rocessing_=E2=80=93_FSMN?=LP 2015

[Katina Bontcheva]

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*Extended submission deadline: March 29*

Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing – FSMNLP 2015
12th International Conference

Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany
June 22-24, 2015

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

http://fsmnlp2015.phil.hhu.de

INTRODUCTION

The international conference series 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 implementational aspects, or their combinations

     that have obvious relevance or an explicit relation to finite-state 
methods.

TOPICS

The conference invites papers related to themes including but not 
limited to:

     - NLP applications and linguistic aspects of finite-state methods
     - Finite-state models of natural language and linguistic theories
     - 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
     - Practical implementations of linguistic descriptions with 
finite-state technology, including grammars, machine learning tools, 
language-specific challenges to finite-state NLP
     - Mathematical results with relevance to finite state machines and 
description languages
     - Applications of finite-state-based NLP in fields such as 
comparative linguistics, field linguistics, applied linguistics and 
language teaching.

We would like to introduce the FSMNLP 2015 SPECIAL THEME:

FINITE-STATE METHODS IN NEW DOMAINS OF NLP

     - The special theme does not restrict the scope of papers. We would 
like to encourage a variety of submissions relating to any dimension of 
finite-state NLP.
     - We encourage papers which apply finite-state methods to domains 
which are beyond the traditional focus of FSMNLP, such as syntactic 
analysis, machine translation, phonetic realization, semantics, text 
processing…
     - Finite-state methods have revolutionized computational morphology 
by establishing a unified methodology; is there potential for a similar 
revolution in other subfields of NLP?

IMPORTANT DATES

     March 29 (extended),  paper submission deadline
     April 30,    notification
     May 14,    camera-ready version

Deadlines are midnight Pacific Standard Time (UTC−8).

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:

     long papers (8 pages including references) reporting completed, 
significant research,

     short papers (4 pages including 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 demo 
sessions, posters and/or short presentations, while long papers are 
presented in longer presentations.

For more information, visit our homepage:

http://fsmnlp2015.phil.hhu.de