<div class="gmail_quote"><br> AUSTRALASIAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOP<br>
(ALTA 2011)<br>
Second Call for Papers<br>
<br>
1st and 2nd December 2011, Canberra, Australia<br>
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<a href="http://alta.asn.au/events/alta2011" target="_blank">http://alta.asn.au/events/alta2011</a><br>
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OVERVIEW<br>
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This year, the Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTA) will<br>
be held at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra on<br>
Thursday 1st and Friday 2nd of December 2011. This event will be the<br>
ninth annual installment of the ALTA Workshop in its most-recent<br>
incarnation, and the continuation of an annual workshop series that<br>
has existed under various guises since the early 90s.<br>
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The goals of the ALTA workshop are:<br>
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* to bring together the growing Language Technology (LT) community<br>
in Australia and New Zealand and encourage interactions;<br>
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* to encourage interactions and collaboration within this community<br>
and with the wider international LT community;<br>
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* to foster interaction between academic and industrial researchers,<br>
to encourage dissemination of research results;<br>
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* to provide a forum for students and young researchers to present<br>
their research;<br>
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* to facilitate the discussion of new and ongoing research and<br>
projects;<br>
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* to provide an opportunity for the broader artificial intelligence<br>
community to become aware of local LT research; and, finally,<br>
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* to increase visibility of LT research in Australia, New Zealand<br>
and overseas.<br>
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TOPICS<br>
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We invite the submission of papers on original and unpublished<br>
research on all aspects of natural language processing, including, but<br>
not limited to:<br>
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* phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse;<br>
* speech understanding and generation;<br>
* interpreting spoken and written language;<br>
* natural language generation;<br>
* linguistic, mathematical, and psychological models of language;<br>
* nlp-based information extraction and retrieval;<br>
* corpus-based and statistical language modelling;<br>
* machine translation and translation aids;<br>
* question answering and information extraction;<br>
* natural language interfaces and dialogue systems;<br>
* natural language and multimodal systems;<br>
* message and narrative understanding systems;<br>
* evaluations of language systems;<br>
* embodied conversational agents;<br>
* computational lexicography;<br>
* summarisation.<br>
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We welcome submissions on any topic that is of interest to the LT<br>
community, and particularly encourage submissions that broaden the<br>
scope of our community through the consideration of practical LT<br>
applications and through multi-disciplinary research. We also<br>
specifically encourage submissions from industry.<br>
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SUBMISSION FORMAT<br>
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All submissions should follow the ACL style guidelines and must be in<br>
PDF format.<br>
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Full paper submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL<br>
proceedings without exceeding eight (8) pages of content plus one<br>
extra page for references. Accepted full papers will be presented<br>
orally at the workshop.<br>
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Short paper submissions should also follow the two-column format of<br>
ACL proceedings without exceeding four (4) pages of content plus one<br>
extra page for references. Accepted short papers will be presented as<br>
posters at the workshop.<br>
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Note that full paper submissions can be accepted as short papers as<br>
determined by the program committee. Full papers will be distinguished<br>
from short papers in the proceedings.<br>
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Reviewing of papers will be double-blind. Therefore, the paper must<br>
not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore,<br>
self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We<br>
previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", must be avoided. Instead, use<br>
citations such as "Smith (1991) previously showed ...".<br>
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We strongly recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft<br>
Word Style files tailored for this year's conference. The style files<br>
and example documents are available from the workshop website.We<br>
reserve the right to reject submissions that do not conform to these<br>
styles including font and page size restrictions.<br>
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If we cannot print your PDF file by the submission date it will be<br>
rejected without being reviewed. Therefore you are encouraged to send<br>
an early version with the typographical complexity of your final<br>
intended version so that we can check it is printable. Detailed<br>
directions for submission will be made available at the workshop<br>
website. Contact the organisers for any questions regarding this<br>
process.<br>
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PROCEEDINGS<br>
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The full proceedings volume will have an ISSN and will be published<br>
online on the ACL anthology website as well as the website of the<br>
Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA).<br>
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IMPORTANT DATES<br>
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* Submissions deadline: Monday 19th September 2011<br>
* Accept/reject: Monday 10th October 2011<br>
* Final camera-ready copy: Monday 31st October 2011<br>
* ALTA Workshop: Thursday 1st and Friday 2nd December 2011<br>
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WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS<br>
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* David Martinez (NICTA Victoria Research Lab and University of Melbourne)<br>
* Diego Molla (Macquarie University)<br>
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE<br>
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* Timothy Baldwin (University of Melbourne)<br>
* Steven Bird (University of Melbourne)<br>
* Francis Bond (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)<br>
* Wray Buntine (NICTA Canberra Research Lab and ANU)<br>
* Eric Choi (NICTA)<br>
* Jean-Yves Delort (Google)<br>
* Mark Dras (Macquarie University)<br>
* Rebecca Dridan (University of Melbourne)<br>
* Dominique Estival (University of Sydney)<br>
* Tanja Gaustad (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)<br>
* Ben Hachey (Macquarie University and CMCRC)<br>
* Nitin Indurkya (University of New South Wales and eBay Research Labs)<br>
* Alistair Knott (University of Otago, New Zealand)<br>
* Kazunori Komatani (Nagoya University, Japan)<br>
* Andrew Lampert (CSIRO)<br>
* Meladel Mistica (ANU)<br>
* Scott Nowson (Appen Butler Hill)<br>
* Cecile Paris (CSIRO)<br>
* Son Bao Pham (Vietnam National University, Vietnam)<br>
* Luiz Augusto Pizzato (University of Sydney)<br>
* David Powers (Flinders University)<br>
* Adam Saulwick (DSTO)<br>
* Andrea Schalley (Griffith University)<br>
* Rolf Schwitter (Macquarie University)<br>
* Hanna Suominen (NICTA Canberra Research Lab and ANU)<br>
* Menno Van Zaanen (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)<br>
* Jette Viethen (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)<br>
* Wayne Wobcke (University of New South Wales)<br>
* Simon Zwarts (Google)<br>
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WORKSHOP LOCAL ORGANISERS<br>
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* Hanna Suominen (NICTA Canberra Research Lab and ANU)<br>
* Wray Buntine (NICTA Canberra Research Lab and ANU)<br>
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ENQUIRIES<br>
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The Australasian Language Technology Workshop is being organised by<br>
ALTA, the Australasian Language Technology Association. For any<br>
comments or questions about the workshop please contact the workshop<br>
organisers (workshop AT alta DOT asn DOT au).<br>
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