of computational linguistics, but has received little attention at recent ACL meetings. We expect the workshop to facilitate interactions among computational phonologists who are attending ACL, and to attract more attendance by computational phonologists.

The workshop will be held on June 8, immediately after the HLT-NAACL 2006 meetings in New York City.

SIGPHON has sponsored seven previous workshops, most recently co-located with ACL in Barcelona is 2004, and including Philadelphia (ACL) in 2002, Luxembourg (COLING) in 2000, and Montreal (ACL) in 1998.

The members of the SIGPHON Executive Committee have a wide range of research experience, covering not only computational phonology and morphology, but also related areas such as phonological field work, phonetics, statistics, psycholinguistics, and engineering. They are:

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