<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ALTA 2013 Shared Task</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

              CALL FOR PARTICIPATION</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">     <a href="http://www.alta.asn.au/events/sharedtask2013" target="_blank">http://www.alta.asn.au/events/sharedtask2013</a></div>

<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA) is organising</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

a programming competition for university undergraduate and</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">postgraduate students. Interested...? Read on.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Following on the series of shared tasks by ALTA since 2010, all</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">participants compete to solve the same problem. The problem highlights</div>

<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">an active area of research and programming in the area of language</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">technology. You can easily obtain reasonable results with little</div>

<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">effort yet nobody has managed to obtain 100% correct results so far.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

The prize will be a minimum of $350 (Australian Dollars). This amount</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">is guaranteed, and it may be higher depending on additional</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

sponsorship.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">We will use Kaggle in Class for this year's competition (look for the</div>

<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ALTA 2013 challenge,</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="https://inclass.kaggle.com/c/alta-2013-challenge" target="_blank">https://inclass.kaggle.com/c/alta-2013-challenge</a>).</div>

<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The key dates are:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

  Right Now  - Registration and release of training and development data</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">  4 Oct 2013 - Deadline of submission of results</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

 11 Oct 2013 - Notification of results</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> 27 Oct 2013 - Deadline of submission of system description poster</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

5-6 Dec 2013 - ALTA workshop at Brisbane</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Details of the task and registration are available at the competition</div>

<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">website (<a href="http://www.alta.asn.au/events/sharedtask2013" target="_blank">http://www.alta.asn.au/events/sharedtask2013</a>).</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div>
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