~s attendance at October 4th dinner?
~c sb@unagi.cis.upenn.edu
~c John.Coleman@phonetics.oxford.ac.uk
~c theriaal@MAGELLAN.UMontreal.CA
~c jurafsky@Colorado.EDU
~c jason@cs.rochester.edu
~c lauri.karttunen@xrce.xerox.com

Dear Alain,

Thank you for your SIGPHON report.

Could you please confirm whether you plan to attend the Exec Plus 
dinner on October 4, or whether you plan to nominate one of your
colleagues to represent SIGPHON in your place.

Thanks,

	- David

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Dear Dr Yarowsky
	Here is the yearly report from SIGPHON. I am sory to send it 
to you so late and I hope it will be to your satisfaction

Yours

Alain Thériault
Liaison Officer
SIGPHON Executive Committee

ACL Special Interest Group in Phonology (SIGPHON)
1999-2000 Activity Report

SIGPHON held its fifth workshop this year, under the auspices of
COLING 2000.  Attendance was slightly up, with 21 registrants and 28
hardcopy proceedings sold.  The workshop title was "Finite-State
Phonology," a theme that succesfully brought together different
descriptive traditions (rewrite rules, DP, OT) and fostered discussion
of cutting-edge computational and formal issues.  The program included
six papers, a discussion of relevant papers from the main conference,
and a panel titled "How to Design a Great Workbench Tool for Working
Phonologists?"

SIGPHON continues to serve the community by maintaining a mailing list
and online bibliographies at its web site, www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/sigphon/.
Membership currently stands at 176, with 36 members declaring
computational phonology as their "primary" interest.