The international conference series Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing (FSMNLP) is the premier forum of the ACL Special Interest Group on Finite-State Methods (SIGFSM). It serves researchers and practitioners workingon natural language processing (NLP) applications or language resources,theoretical and implementational aspects, or their combinations, that makeuse of finite-state methods.

FSMNLP 2023 is held the days following IJCAI (International Joint Conferenceson Artificial Intelligence) 2023 which is hosted in nearby Cape Town, attendants are encouraged to attend both to make the most of the visit.

Scope

FSMNLP 2023 invites papers on natural language processing (NLP) with obviousrelevance or an explicit relation to finite-state methods as well as, conversely, papers on finite-state methods that are motivated by or clearly relevant to NLP.

Topics include but are not limited to:

• NLP applications and linguistic aspects of finite-state methods
• Finite-state models of natural language and linguistic theories
• Practices for building morphological models using finite-state technology
• Machine learning of finite-state models of natural language
• Finite-state manipulation software and tools with relevance to NLP
• Practical implementations of linguistic descriptions with finite-statetechnology, including grammars, machine learning tools, andlanguage-specific challenges to finite-state NLP
• Formal results with relevance to finite state machines and descriptionlanguages
• Applications of finite-state-based NLP in fields such as comparativelinguistics, field linguistics, applied linguistics and language teaching.

Important dates

• May 15, 2023: Abstract submission deadline
• May 22, 2023: Paper submission deadline
• July 4, 2023: Notification of acceptance
• July 18, 2023: Camera-ready version due
• August 28-30, 2023: Event on-site in Stellenbosch

Deadlines are midnight South African time (UTC+2)

Submissions

Submissions are made in two stages, a submission of a preliminary abstractlater followed by a submission of the paper itself. Papers must presentoriginal, unpublished research and implementation results. Simultaneoussubmissions to FSMNLP and to another conference or workshop are allowed.According to the ACL double submission policy (https://www.aclweb.org/archive/policies/current/double-submission-policy.html), doubly-submitted papers should indicate this fact on the title page. Ifaccepted at both FSMNLP and the other meeting, such a paper must be withdrawnfrom one of them. Withdrawal from FSMNLP shall be as soon as possible but nolater than one week after the notification of acceptance at FSMNLP.

FSMNLP accepts two kinds of submissions:

• long papers (8 pages excluding references) reporting completed, significantresearch,
• short papers (4 pages excluding references) reporting ongoing workand partial results, implementations, grammars, practical tools,interactive software demos, etc.

Short papers are expected to be presented as system demos, posters and/orshort presentations, while long papers are presented in full talks.

All submissions are electronic and in PDF format via a web-based submissionserver. Authors are strongly encouraged to preparte their papers in LaTeXusing the ACL 2021-12 style files to produce the PDF document. The zip archiveof the style files can be downloaded here:

https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files/releases/tag/2021-12

Information about the author(s) and other identifying information such asobvious self-references (e.g., “We showed in [12] …”) and financial orpersonal acknowledgements should be omitted in the submitted papers wheneverfeasible.

Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF at:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fsmnlp2023

A paper may contain a clearly marked appendix and data files to support itsclaims. This material will not be published. While reviewers are urged toconsult this extra material for better comprehension, it is at theirdiscretion whether they do so. Such extra material should also be anonymized to the extent feasible.

All accepted papers will be published and archived in the FSMNLP 2023 proceedings in the ACL Anthology. We plan to provide the opportunity to submit revised and substantially extended versions of accepted papers toa special issue of an appropriate high-quality journal.Welcome to your own private pad!