Twentieth SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Phonology, Morphology, and Phonetics

All times are Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4)

Workshop to be held online on July 14, 2023

8:25 – 8:30 Opening Statements

8:30 – 9:30 - Invited Talk: Carmen Saldana

9:30 - 10:30 - Morning Session: Morphology

9:30 - 9:45: Multilingual Sequence-to-Sequence Models for Hebrew NLP

Matan Eyal, Hila Noga, Roee Aharoni, Idan Szpektor and Reut Tsarfaty
9:45 - 10:00: Joint Learning Model for Low-Resource Agglutinative Language Morphological Tagging

Gulinigeer Abudouwaili, Kahaerjiang Abiderexiti, Nian Yi and Aishan Wumaier
10:00 - 10:15: Generalized Glossing Guidelines: An Explicit, Human- and Machine-Readable, Item-and-Process Convention for Morphological Annotation

David R. Mortensen, Ela Gulsen, Taiqi He, Nathaniel Robinson, Jonathan Amith, Lindia Tjuatja and Lori Levin
10:15 - 10:30: Lightweight morpheme labeling in context: Using structured linguistic representations to support linguistic analysis for the language documentation context

Bhargav Shandilya and Alexis Palmer

10:30–11:00 - Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:00 - Post-break Session: Phonology and Phonetics

11:00 - 11:15: Investigating Phoneme Similarity with Artificially Accented Speech

Margot Masson and Julie Carson-berndsen
11:15 - 11:30: Improving Automated Prediction of English Lexical Blends Through the Use of Observable Linguistic Features

Jarem Saunders
11:30 - 11:45: Colexifications for Bootstrapping Cross-lingual Datasets: The Case of Phonology, Concreteness, and Affectiveness

Yiyi Chen and Johannes Bjerva
11:45 - 12:00: Character alignment methods for dialect-to-standard normalization

Yves Scherrer

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch

13:00 – 14:00 Invited Talk: Kyle Gorman

14:00 – 14:30 - ACL Findings Session

14:00 - 14:15 - AxomiyaBERTa:A Phonologically-aware Transformer Model for Assamese

Abhijnan Nath, Sheikh Mannan and Nikhil Krishnaswamy
14:15 - 14:30 - Do Transformer Models do Phonology like a Linguist?

Saliha Muradoˇglu and Mans Hulden

14:30 - 15:30 Glossing Shared Task

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 – 17:00 Inflection Shared Task

17:00 - 18:00 Afternoon Session:Multilinguality and Language Resources

17:00 - 17:15: Evaluating Cross Lingual Transfer for Morphological Analysis: a Case Study of Indian Languages

Siddhesh Pawar, Pushpak Bhattacharyya and Partha Talukdar
17:15 - 17:30 Translating a low-resource language using GPT-3 and a human-readable dictionary

Micha Elsner and Jordan Needle
17:30 - 17:45 Revisiting and Amending Central Kurdish Data on UniMorph 4.0

Sina Ahmadi and Aso Mahmudi
Jambu: A historical linguistic database for South Asian languages

Aryaman Arora, Adam Farris, Samopriya Basu and Suresh Kolichala

Twentieth SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Phonology, Morphology, and Phonetics

Twentieth SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Phonology, Morphology, and Phonetics

Workshop to be held online on July 14, 2023

8:25 – 8:30 Opening Statements

8:30 – 9:30 - Invited Talk: Carmen Saldana

9:30 - 10:30 - Morning Session: Morphology

9:30 - 9:45: Multilingual Sequence-to-Sequence Models for Hebrew NLP

Matan Eyal, Hila Noga, Roee Aharoni, Idan Szpektor and Reut Tsarfaty

9:45 - 10:00: Joint Learning Model for Low-Resource Agglutinative Language Morphological Tagging

Gulinigeer Abudouwaili, Kahaerjiang Abiderexiti, Nian Yi and Aishan Wumaier

10:00 - 10:15: Generalized Glossing Guidelines: An Explicit, Human- and Machine-Readable, Item-and-Process Convention for Morphological Annotation

David R. Mortensen, Ela Gulsen, Taiqi He, Nathaniel Robinson, Jonathan Amith, Lindia Tjuatja and Lori Levin

10:15 - 10:30: Lightweight morpheme labeling in context: Using structured linguistic representations to support linguistic analysis for the language documentation context

Bhargav Shandilya and Alexis Palmer

10:30–11:00 - Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:00 - Post-break Session: Phonology and Phonetics

11:00 - 11:15: Investigating Phoneme Similarity with Artificially Accented Speech

Margot Masson and Julie Carson-berndsen

11:15 - 11:30: Improving Automated Prediction of English Lexical Blends Through the Use of Observable Linguistic Features

Jarem Saunders

11:30 - 11:45: Colexifications for Bootstrapping Cross-lingual Datasets: The Case of Phonology, Concreteness, and Affectiveness

Yiyi Chen and Johannes Bjerva

11:45 - 12:00: Character alignment methods for dialect-to-standard normalization

Yves Scherrer

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch

13:00 – 14:00 Invited Talk: Kyle Gorman

14:00 – 14:30 - ACL Findings Session

14:00 - 14:15 - AxomiyaBERTa:A Phonologically-aware Transformer Model for Assamese

Abhijnan Nath, Sheikh Mannan and Nikhil Krishnaswamy

14:15 - 14:30 - Do Transformer Models do Phonology like a Linguist?

Saliha Muradoˇglu and Mans Hulden

14:30 - 15:30 Glossing Shared Task

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 – 17:00 Inflection Shared Task

17:00 - 18:00 Afternoon Session:Multilinguality and Language Resources

17:00 - 17:15: Evaluating Cross Lingual Transfer for Morphological Analysis: a Case Study of Indian Languages

Siddhesh Pawar, Pushpak Bhattacharyya and Partha Talukdar

17:15 - 17:30 Translating a low-resource language using GPT-3 and a human-readable dictionary

Micha Elsner and Jordan Needle

17:30 - 17:45 Revisiting and Amending Central Kurdish Data on UniMorph 4.0

Sina Ahmadi and Aso Mahmudi

Jambu: A historical linguistic database for South Asian languages

Aryaman Arora, Adam Farris, Samopriya Basu and Suresh Kolichala