The Fifth International Workshop on Systems and Frameworks for Computational Morphology

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Call for Papers
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SFCM 2017
Location: 
Humboldt-Universität
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Tuesday, 12 September 2017
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Germany
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Berlin
Contact: 
Cerstin Mahlow
Michael Piotrowski
Submission Deadline: 
Friday, 21 July 2017

Final Call for Papers and Extension of Deadline

The Fifth International Workshop on Systems and Frameworks for
Computational Morphology (SFCM 2017)

http://sfcm.eu/sfcm2017/

Workshop date: September 12, 2017

Location: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

Submission deadline: July 21, 2017 (extended!)

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The Workshop on Systems and Frameworks for Computational Morphology
(SFCM) brings together researchers and developers in the area of
computational morphology and morphological theory used in computational
systems. The focus of SFCM are actual working systems, frameworks based
on linguistic principles, and means for providing linguistically sound
analysis and/or generation tools based on well-defined linguistic
categories.

In 2017, SFCM will take place for the fifth time. The fifth edition of
SFCM will again bring together researchers involved with computational
approaches to morphology. We aim to encourage discussion among
researchers and developers from different communities and to contribute
to bridging the divide between NLP and linguistic communities around
state-of-the-art approaches to morphological analysis and generation.

We are in the process of arranging the open-access publication of the
proceedings with Language Science Press in their _Morphological
Investigation_ series.

SFCM is an activity of the SIG Morphology of the German Society for
Computational Linguistics and Language Technology (GSCL) and is
co-located with GSCL 2017.

TOPICS

The topics of this workshop include technical and linguistic aspects
related to the development of systems and frameworks for computational
morphology, applications and evaluation of such systems and frameworks,
as well as interactions between computational morphology and formal,
quantitative, and descriptive morphology.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

- Software frameworks for developing morphological components.
- Open-source systems, tools, and resources for analyzing and
generating word forms.
- Linguistic frameworks for computational morphology.
- Implementations of formal models of morphology for individual
languages and language families, including historical languages and
language variants.
- Use of morphological analysis and generation in NLP applications.
- Use of morphological systems in linguistic research, i.e., studies
that address formal morphological issues with the help of
computational methods, tools, and resources.
- Use of morphological systems in digital humanities research.
- Approaches for handling phenomena at the interface between
morphology and neighboring levels of linguistic description, such as
phonetics, morphophonology, and syntax.
- Methods and criteria for evaluating morphological components with
respect to performance, quality, and coverage.
- Software engineering aspects: APIs, robustness, performance,
hardware/software requirements, resource usage.
- License models, versioning, and legal aspects.

The workshop will also include a demo session for presenting individual
systems and resources.

KEYNOTE

Gabriella Lapesa from the Institute for Natural Language Processing
(IMS) at the University of Stuttgart will give the SFCM 2017 keynote on
the topic of distributional characterization of derivation.

SUBMISSIONS

We invite researchers to submit full papers of up to 20 pages (excluding
references) or short papers of up to 10 pages. Long papers constitute an
excellent opportunity to publish citable, in-depth descriptions of
systems and frameworks. Submissions must be in English. Reviewing of
papers will be double-blind by the members of the program committee, and
all submissions will receive several independent reviews. Papers
submitted at review stage must not contain the authors’ names,
affiliations, or any information that may disclose the authors’
identity.

Authors of accepted papers will be invited to present their research at
the workshop as talk or as a poster. Accepted papers will be published
in the proceedings of the workshop.

The papers must use the Language Science Press format. Please use the
_LaTeX skeleton for papers in edited volumes_, see
http://langsci-press.org/templatesAndTools for instructions and
downloads. Please strictly follow the guidelines. Papers must be
submitted electronically in PDF format. For paper submissions we use
EasyChair (http://www.sfcm.eu/sfcm2017/submissions).

DATE AND LOCATION

Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

Date
September 12, 2017

IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for submission
July 21, 2017 (extended!)

Notification of acceptance
August 04, 2017

Revised version of papers
August 18, 2017

Workshop
September 12, 2017

GSCL 2017 main conference
September 13–15, 2017

CHAIRS

- Cerstin Mahlow (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
- Michael Piotrowski (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

- Bruno Cartoni (Google Research Europe, Switzerland)
- Simon Clematide (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
- Thomas Hanneforth (University of Potsdam, Germany)
- Lauri Karttunen (Stanford University, USA)
- Kimmo Koskenniemi (University of Helsinki, Finland)
- Krister Lindén (University of Helsinki, Finland)
- Günter Neumann (DFKI Saarbrücken, Germany)
- Adnan Öztürel (Google Research Europe, Switzerland)
- Marco Passarotti (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in
Milano, Italy)
- Yves Scherrer (University of Helsinki, Finland)
- Helmut Schmid (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany)
- Andrea Zielinski (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social
Sciences, Germany)

*Further Information*

http://sfcm.eu/sfcm2017/

WORKSHOP CONTACT ADDRESS

info@sfcm.eu