Australasian Language Technology Association
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The Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA) promotes language technology research and development in Australia and New Zealand.
ALTA organises regular events for the exchange of research results and for academic and industrial training, and co-ordinates activities with other professional societies.
ALTA is a founding regional organization of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP)
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Every year early December ALTA organises a research workshop gathering together the growing language technology
community in Australia and New Zealand, both from the academic and industrial world. The workshop welcomes original work on any aspect of natural language processing, including both speech and text. Accepted papers are published in the ALTA proceedings, which are also included as part of the ACL
Anthology.
Since 2008 ALTA has been involved in organising the Australian Computational and Linguistics Olympiad (OzCLO), which is a contest for high school students in the area of linguistics and computational linguistics.
ALTA organises regular events for the exchange of research results and for academic and industrial training, and co-ordinates activities with other professional societies.
ALTA is a founding regional organization of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP)
AFNLP
AFNLP is the organization for coordinating the natural language processing related activities and events in the Asia-Pacific region.-Member Associations:...
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Every year early December ALTA organises a research workshop gathering together the growing language technology
Language technology
Language technology is often called human language technology or natural language processing and consists of computational linguistics and speech technology as its core but includes also many application oriented aspects of them. Language technology is closely connected to computer science and...
community in Australia and New Zealand, both from the academic and industrial world. The workshop welcomes original work on any aspect of natural language processing, including both speech and text. Accepted papers are published in the ALTA proceedings, which are also included as part of the ACL
Association for Computational Linguistics
The Association for Computational Linguistics is the international scientific and professional society for people working on problems involving natural language and computation. An annual meeting is held each summer in locations where significant computational linguistics research is carried out...
Anthology.
Since 2008 ALTA has been involved in organising the Australian Computational and Linguistics Olympiad (OzCLO), which is a contest for high school students in the area of linguistics and computational linguistics.
Conferences
- ALTW2003, 10 December 2003, MelbourneMelbourneMelbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
. - ALTW2004, 8 December 2004, SydneySydneySydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
. - ALTW2005, 10–11 December 2005, SydneySydneySydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
. - ALTW2006, 30 November - 1 December 2006, SydneySydneySydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
, as part of the HCSNet SummerFest. - ALTA2007, 10–11 December 2007, MelbourneMelbourneMelbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
, in conjunction with ADCS. - ALTA2008, 8–10 December 2008, HobartHobartHobart is the state capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Founded in 1804 as a penal colony,Hobart is Australia's second oldest capital city after Sydney. In 2009, the city had a greater area population of approximately 212,019. A resident of Hobart is known as...
, in conjunction with ADCS. - ALTA2009, 3–4 December 2009, SydneySydneySydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
, as part of the HCSNet Summerfest. - ALTA2010, 9–10 December 2010, MelbourneMelbourneMelbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
, in conjunction with ADCS. - ALTA2011, 1–2 December 2011, CanberraCanberraCanberra is the capital city of Australia. With a population of over 345,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory , south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Melbourne...
, in conjunction with ADCS and langfest 2011, which includes the of the 2nd combined conference of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA) and the Applied Linguistics Association of New Zealand (ALANZ), as well as the 42nd Annual Conference of the Australian Linguistics Society (ALS)