2006-2007 Annual Report
SIGMORPHON (Computational Morphology and Phonology)
Jason Eisner


MEMBERSHIP
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SIGPHON is ACL's special interest group for computational morphology,
phonology, and phonetics.  Membership currently stands at 73, up from
55 at the end of July 2006.  


(All of these members have explicitly affirmed their membership in the
past year or so.  Our membership list was previously 240, but this 
included many inactive members, including many with non-working email 
addresses.  We cleaned it up by explicitly asking people to 
re-subscribe.)


A new SIGPHON executive committee was elected in 2006, consisting of 3 
old and 3 new members.


WORKSHOP
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Our 9th SIG workshop is being held at ACL 2007.  (We have customarily 
held workshops only in even-numbered years, and we did have one in 2006,  
but there was sufficient interest to hold another this year.) 


All 10 talks, 5 of the 6 posters, and the keynote address are related 
to the workshop's special theme: COMPUTING AND HISTORICAL PHONOLOGY. 
This special interdisciplinary workshop includes papers not only from 
computational linguists, but also from a historical linguist, a  
typologist, a dialectologist, and a geneticist. 


The program is at http://www.let.rug.nl/alfa/Prague/advertisement.html 
All submissions received 3-4 reviews.  The workshop organizers are 
John Nerbonne, T. Mark Ellison and Grzegorz Kondrak. 


ONLINE ACTIVITIES
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sigmorphon.org continues to serve the community by maintaining a 
mailing list and online bibliographies at its web site.  The website 
does not fully reflect this new domain name but will be updated this 
summer.


We plan to advertise the SIG's expanded scope in order to recruit 
new members to the SIG and increase discussion on its mailing list. 


We have corresponded recently with Steven Bird about adding some  
missing older workshop proceedings to the ACL Anthology. 
These additional proceedings (with one exception) are already 
available at sigmorphon.org.