SIGPHON (Alain Thériault)
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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.