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        LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOP (ALTA 2014)</span></p>
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        Annual Meeting</span></p>
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        CALL FOR PAPERS</span></p>
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        deadline:</span><span
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        19 September 2014</span></p>
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        26 November 2014</span></p>
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style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Workshop</span><span
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        27, 28 November 2014</span></p>
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style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Venue:</span><span
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        RMIT Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.</span></p>
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style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">This
        year the Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTA) will
        be held at the RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, on
        Wednesday 26 - Friday 28 November. This event will be the
        twelfth installment of the ALTA Workshop in its current
        incarnation, and the continuation of an annual workshop series
        that has existed under various guises since the early 90s. </span></p>
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style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The
        goals of the ALTA workshop are: </span></p>
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           - to bring together the growing Language Technology (LT)
        community </span></p>
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           in the Australasian region and encourage interactions; </span></p>
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           - to encourage interactions and collaboration within this
        community </span></p>
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           and with the wider international LT community; </span></p>
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           - to foster interaction between academic and industrial </span></p>
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           researchers, to encourage dissemination of research results;
      </span></p>
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           - to provide a forum for students and young researchers to
        present </span></p>
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           their research; </span></p>
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           - to facilitate the discussion of new and ongoing research
        and </span></p>
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            projects; </span></p>
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           - to provide an opportunity for the broader artificial
        intelligence </span></p>
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           community to become aware of local LT research; and, finally,
      </span></p>
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           - to increase visibility of LT research in Australasia and </span></p>
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            overseas. </span></p>
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        TOPICS ----- </span></p>
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style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">We
        invite the submission of papers on original and unpublished
        research </span></p>
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style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">on
        all aspects of natural language processing, including, but not </span></p>
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style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">limited
        to: </span></p>
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style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           -phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and
        discourse; </span></p>
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style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           -speech understanding and generation; </span></p>
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style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           -interpreting spoken and written language; </span></p>
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style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           -natural language generation; </span></p>
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style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           -linguistic, mathematical, and psychological models of
        language; </span></p>
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style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           -NLP-based information extraction and retrieval; </span></p>
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           -corpus-based and statistical language modelling; </span></p>
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style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           -machine translation and translation aids; </span></p>
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style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           -question answering and information extraction; </span></p>
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style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           -natural language interfaces and dialogue systems; </span></p>
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style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           -natural language and multimodal systems; </span></p>
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style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           -message and narrative understanding systems; </span></p>
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style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           -evaluations of language systems; </span></p>
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style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           -embodied conversational agents; </span></p>
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style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           -computational lexicography; </span></p>
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style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           -summarisation; </span></p>
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style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           -language resources; </span></p>
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style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           -topic modelling and unsupervised language analysis; </span></p>
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style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           -social media analysis and processing; </span></p>
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style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           -domain-specific adaptation of natural language processing
        algorithms. </span></p>
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style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">-----
        INVITED SPEAKERS ----- </span></p>
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style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">We
        are very pleased to announce that Jennifer Lai. from IBM
        Research has accepted our invitation to present a keynote at
        ALTA 2014.  We will provide additional details about the keynote
        on the website in the near future.</span></p>
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        TUTORIALS ----- </span></p>
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style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">We
        are pleased to announce the following tutorial at ALTA 2014:</span></p>
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style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Presenter:
        Dr. Trevor Cohn</span></p>
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style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Title:
        Gaussian Processes for NLP</span></p>
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style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Short
        Description:</span></p>
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style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Gaussian
        Processes are a powerful Bayesian modelling framework, which
        holds considerable potential in language processing. The
        tutorial will present fundamentals of Gaussian Processes and
        survey several NLP tasks where GPs have been deployed
        successfully.</span></p>
    <br>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">For
        more information, please see </span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.alta.asn.au/events/alta2014/alta-2014-tutorials.html">http://www.alta.asn.au/events/alta2014/alta-2014-tutorials.html</a>
      </span></p>
    <br>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">-----
        SUBMISSIONS ----- </span></p>
    <br>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">We
        welcome submissions on any topic that is of interest to the LT </span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">community,
        and particularly encourage submissions that broaden the scope </span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">of
        our community through the consideration of practical LT
        applications </span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">and
        through multi-disciplinary research. We also especially
        encourage </span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">submissions
        from industry. </span></p>
    <br>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Submissions
        will be through EasyChair: </span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=altw2014">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=altw2014</a></span></p>
    <br>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">All
        submissions should follow the ACL 2014 style guidelines and must
        be </span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">in
        PDF format. </span></p>
    <br>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Full
        paper submissions may consist of up to eight (8) pages of
        content </span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">plus
        any number of pages consisting of only references. Short papers
        may </span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">consist
        of up to four (4) pages of content plus any number of pages </span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">consisting
        of only references. All submissions should follow the </span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">two-column
        format of ACL proceedings. Full papers will be distinguished </span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">from
        short papers in the proceedings. </span></p>
    <br>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Papers
        will be presented either orally or as posters at the workshop. </span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">There
        will be no distinction between papers presented orally and those
      </span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">presented
        as posters in the proceedings. </span></p>
    <br>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Reviewing
        of papers will be double-blind. Therefore, the paper must not </span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">include
        the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, </span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">self-references
        that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously </span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">showed
        (Smith, 1991) ...", must be avoided. Instead, use citations such
      </span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">as
        "Smith (1991) previously showed ...". Papers not conforming to
        these </span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">requirements
        will be rejected without review. </span></p>
    <br>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">We
        strongly recommend the use of the ACL LaTeX style files or
        Microsoft </span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Word
        Style files tailored for this year's conference. The style files
      </span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">and
        example documents will be available from the workshop website.
        We </span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">reserve
        the right to reject submissions that do not conform to these </span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">styles
        including font and page size restrictions. </span></p>
    <br>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">-----
        PROCEEDINGS ----- </span></p>
    <br>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The
        full proceedings volume will have an ISSN and will be published
      </span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">online
        on the ACL anthology website as well as the website of the </span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Australasian
        Language Technology Association (ALTA). </span></p>
    <br>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">------
        STUDENT TRAVEL SUPPORT ----- </span></p>
    <br>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">With
        the generous support of our sponsors, ALTA will be offering </span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">travel
        support for students to attend and present at ALTA 2014. We </span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">will
        provide details of this on the workshop website at a later date.
      </span></p>
    <br>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">-----
        IMPORTANT DATES ----- </span></p>
    <br>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Please
        note that as ALTA 2014 happens earlier in the year than in
        previous years, there will be *no* extensions to the submission
        deadline, given this tight schedule.</span></p>
    <br>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           Submission deadline: </span><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">19
        September</span><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
        (23:59 GMT +10:00) </span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           Notification: </span><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">24
        October </span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           Final camera-ready copy: </span><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">7
        November</span><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
      </span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           ALTA Workshop: </span><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">26-28
        November</span></p>
    <br>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">------
        COMMITTEE ----- </span></p>
    <br>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Workshop
        co-chairs:</span></p>
    <br>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           Gabriela Ferraro (NICTA) </span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           Stephen Wan (CSIRO) </span></p>
    <br>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Local
        Organisers:</span></p>
    <br>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           Lawrence Cavedon (RMIT) </span></p>
    <br>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           We are pleased to be working with Falk Scholer (RMIT) to
        organise the co-located </span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           event: the Australian Document Computing Symposium. </span></p>
    <br>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Programme
        Committee:</span></p>
    <br>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           Timothy Baldwin  (University of Melbourne)</span></p>
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      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           Wray Buntine      (Monash University)</span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           Alicia Burga        (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)</span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           Lawrence Cavedon (RMIT University)</span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           Nathalie Colineau (DSTO)    </span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           Trevor Cohn        (Melbourne University)</span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           Lan</span><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">   
      </span><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Du
                     (Macquarie University)</span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           Dominique Estival (University of Western Sydney)</span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           Ben Hachey        (University of Sydney)</span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           Gholamreza Haffari (Monash University)</span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           Graeme Hirst      (University of Toronto)</span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           Nitin</span><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">   
      </span><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Indurkhya
          (University of New South Wales)</span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           Sarvnaz Karimi    (CSIRO)</span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           Su Nam Kim       (Monash University)</span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           Alistair Knott       (University of Otago)</span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           François Lareau   (Université de Montréal)</span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           David Martinez    (University of Melbourne)</span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           Tara Mcinkintosh (Google)</span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           Meladel Mistica   (Intel Corporation)</span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           Diego Molla        (Macquarie University)</span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           Anthony Nguyen  (The Australian e-Health Research Centre)</span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           Joel Nothman      (University of Sydney)</span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           Scott Nowson      (Xerox Research Centre Europe)</span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           Cecile Paris        (CSIRO)</span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           David Powers      (Flinders University)</span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           Lizhen Qu           (NICTA)</span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           Will Radford        (Xerox Research Centre Europe)</span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           Horacio Saggion  (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)</span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           Andrea Schalley  (Griffith University)</span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           Rolf Schwitter     (Macquarie University)</span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           Karin Verspoor    (The University of Melbourne)</span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           Ingrid Zuckerman (Monash University)</span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
           </span></p>
    <br>
    <br>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">-----
        SPONSORSHIP ----- </span></p>
    <br>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">We
        are pleased to announce that we have already secured sponsorship</span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">for
        the workshop from the CSIRO and Google.</span></p>
    <br>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">If
        you or your organisation are interested in sponsoring the ALTA </span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Workshop,
        please contact the workshop organisers for information. </span></p>
    <br>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">-----
        ENQUIRIES ----- </span></p>
    <br>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The
        Australasian Language Technology Workshop is being organised by
      </span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">ALTA,
        the Australasian Language Technology Association. For any
        comments </span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">or
        questions about the workshop please contact the workshop
        organisers </span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">(</span><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#6611cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:workshop@alta.asn.au">workshop@alta.asn.au</a></span><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">).
      </span></p>
    <br>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">-----
        ALTA Membership ----- </span></p>
    <br>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">We
        invite anyone interested in language technology research and </span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">development
        in Australia and New Zealand to join ALTA by subscribing </span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">to
        the ALTA mailing list. You will then receive periodic
        announcements </span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">by
        the ALTA Executive Committee about forthcoming activities and </span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">resources
        of the Association. For more information and to sign up, </span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">please
        see </span><a
        href="http://www.alta.asn.au/mailing_lists/index.html"
        style="text-decoration:none;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#6611cc;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">http://www.alta.asn.au/mailing_lists/index.html</span></a><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
        or simply </span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">send
        an email to <</span><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#6611cc;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:alta-announce+subscribe@googlegroups.com">alta-announce+subscribe@googlegroups.com</a></span><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">>.
      </span></p>
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Gabriela Ferraro
Researcher, PhD
NICTA, Canberra Research Laboratory

Postal address: Locked Bag 8001, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
Office address: Room L2-24, Tower A, 7 London Circuit, Canberra City ACT 2601, Australia
Office phone: +61 (0)2 6267 6264
email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:gabriela.ferraro@nicta.com.au">gabriela.ferraro@nicta.com.au</a>
Web page: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~gferraro/">http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~gferraro/</a></pre>
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