[Corpora-List] FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: ALTA 2014

Mon Sep 1 02:05:43 UTC 2014

AUSTRALASIAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOP (ALTA 2014)

Twelfth Annual Meeting

http://www.alta.asn.au/events/alta2014/

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

Submission deadline:19 September 2014

Tutorials:26 November 2014

Workshop: 27, 28 November 2014

Venue:RMIT Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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.

The goals of the ALTA workshop are:

    - to bring together the growing Language Technology (LT) community

    in the Australasian region and encourage interactions;

    - to encourage interactions and collaboration within this community

    and with the wider international LT community;

    - to foster interaction between academic and industrial

    researchers, to encourage dissemination of research results;

    - to provide a forum for students and young researchers to present

    their research;

    - to facilitate the discussion of new and ongoing research and

     projects;

    - to provide an opportunity for the broader artificial intelligence

    community to become aware of local LT research; and, finally,

    - to increase visibility of LT research in Australasia and

     overseas.

----- TOPICS -----

We invite the submission of papers on original and unpublished research

on all aspects of natural language processing, including, but not

limited to:

    -phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse;

    -speech understanding and generation;

    -interpreting spoken and written language;

    -natural language generation;

    -linguistic, mathematical, and psychological models of language;

    -NLP-based information extraction and retrieval;

    -corpus-based and statistical language modelling;

    -machine translation and translation aids;

    -question answering and information extraction;

    -natural language interfaces and dialogue systems;

    -natural language and multimodal systems;

    -message and narrative understanding systems;

    -evaluations of language systems;

    -embodied conversational agents;

    -computational lexicography;

    -summarisation;

    -language resources;

    -topic modelling and unsupervised language analysis;

    -social media analysis and processing;

    -domain-specific adaptation of natural language processing algorithms.

----- INVITED SPEAKERS -----

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.

----- TUTORIALS -----

We are pleased to announce the following tutorial at ALTA 2014:

Presenter: Dr. Trevor Cohn

Title: Gaussian Processes for NLP

Short Description:

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.

Presenter: Dr. Gholamreza Haffari

Title: Machine Learning Approaches for Dealing with Limited Bilingual 
Data in Statistical Machine Translation

Short Description:

High quality translation output in Statistical machine translation (SMT) 
is dependent on the availability of massive amounts of parallel text in 
the source and target language.
There are a large number of languages that are considered "low-density", 
either because the population speaking the language is not very large,
or even if millions of people speak the language, insufficient online 
resources are available in that language.
This tutorial covers machine learning approaches for dealing with such 
situations in SMT where the amount of available bilingual data is limited.

For more information, please see

http://www.alta.asn.au/events/alta2014/alta-2014-tutorials.html

----- SUBMISSIONS -----

We welcome submissions on any topic that is of interest to the LT

community, and particularly encourage submissions that broaden the scope

of our community through the consideration of practical LT applications

and through multi-disciplinary research. We also especially encourage

submissions from industry.

Submissions will be through EasyChair:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=altw2014

All submissions should follow the ACL 2014 style guidelines and must be

in PDF format.

Full paper submissions may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content

plus any number of pages consisting of only references. Short papers may

consist of up to four (4) pages of content plus any number of pages

consisting of only references. All submissions should follow the

two-column format of ACL proceedings. Full papers will be distinguished

from short papers in the proceedings.

Papers will be presented either orally or as posters at the workshop.

There will be no distinction between papers presented orally and those

presented as posters in the proceedings.

Reviewing of papers will be double-blind. Therefore, the paper must not

include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore,

self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously

showed (Smith, 1991) ...", must be avoided. Instead, use citations such

as "Smith (1991) previously showed ...". Papers not conforming to these

requirements will be rejected without review.

We strongly recommend the use of the ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft

Word Style files tailored for this year's conference. The style files

and example documents will be available from the workshop website. We

reserve the right to reject submissions that do not conform to these

styles including font and page size restrictions.

----- PROCEEDINGS -----

The full proceedings volume will have an ISSN and will be published

online on the ACL anthology website as well as the website of the

Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA).

------ STUDENT TRAVEL SUPPORT -----

With the generous support of our sponsors, ALTA will be offering

travel support for students to attend and present at ALTA 2014. We

will provide details of this on the workshop website at a later date.

----- IMPORTANT DATES -----

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.

    Submission deadline: 19 September(23:59 GMT +10:00)

    Notification: 24 October

    Final camera-ready copy: 7 November

    ALTA Workshop: 26-28 November

------ COMMITTEE -----

Workshop co-chairs:

    Gabriela Ferraro (NICTA)

    Stephen Wan (CSIRO)

Local Organisers:

    Lawrence Cavedon (RMIT)

    We are pleased to be working with Falk Scholer (RMIT) to organise 
the co-located

    event: the Australian Document Computing Symposium.

Programme Committee:

    Timothy Baldwin  (University of Melbourne)

    Wray Buntine      (Monash University)

    Alicia Burga        (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

    Lawrence Cavedon (RMIT University)

    Nathalie Colineau (DSTO)

    Trevor Cohn        (Melbourne University)

    LanDu              (Macquarie University)

    Dominique Estival (University of Western Sydney)

    Ben Hachey        (University of Sydney)

    Gholamreza Haffari (Monash University)

    Graeme Hirst      (University of Toronto)

    NitinIndurkhya   (University of New South Wales)

    Sarvnaz Karimi    (CSIRO)

    Su Nam Kim       (Monash University)

    Alistair Knott       (University of Otago)

    François Lareau   (Université de Montréal)

    David Martinez    (University of Melbourne)

    Tara Mcinkintosh (Google)

    Meladel Mistica   (Intel Corporation)

    Diego Molla        (Macquarie University)

    Anthony Nguyen  (The Australian e-Health Research Centre)

    Joel Nothman      (University of Sydney)

    Scott Nowson      (Xerox Research Centre Europe)

    Cecile Paris        (CSIRO)

    David Powers      (Flinders University)

    Lizhen Qu           (NICTA)

    Will Radford        (Xerox Research Centre Europe)

    Horacio Saggion  (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

    Andrea Schalley  (Griffith University)

    Rolf Schwitter     (Macquarie University)

    Karin Verspoor    (The University of Melbourne)

    Ingrid Zuckerman (Monash University)

----- SPONSORSHIP -----

We are pleased to announce that we have already secured sponsorship

for the workshop from the CSIRO and Google.

If you or your organisation are interested in sponsoring the ALTA

Workshop, please contact the workshop organisers for information.

----- ENQUIRIES -----

The Australasian Language Technology Workshop is being organised by

ALTA, the Australasian Language Technology Association. For any comments

or questions about the workshop please contact the workshop organisers

(workshop at alta.asn.au).

----- ALTA Membership -----

We invite anyone interested in language technology research and

development in Australia and New Zealand to join ALTA by subscribing

to the ALTA mailing list. You will then receive periodic announcements

by the ALTA Executive Committee about forthcoming activities and

resources of the Association. For more information and to sign up,

please see http://www.alta.asn.au/mailing_lists/index.htmlor simply

send an email to <alta-announce+subscribe at googlegroups.com>.

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