28.3737, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Australia

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-3737. Tue Sep 12 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.3737, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Australia

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Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 10:02:49
From: Jojo Wong [jojo.wong at monash.edu]
Subject: 15th Annual Workshop of the Australian Language Technology Association

Full Title: 15th Annual Workshop of the Australian Language Technology Association 
Short Title: ALTA 2017 

Date: 07-Dec-2017 - 08-Dec-2017
Location: Brisbane, Australia 
Contact Person: Jojo Wong
Meeting Email: jojo.wong at monash.edu
Web Site: http://alta2017.alta.asn.au 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 07-Oct-2017 

Meeting Description:

The 15th Annual Workshop of the Australian Language Technology Association
will be held on the 7 and 8 of December at the Queensland University of
Technology in Brisbane, Australia. It will be co-located with the Australian
Document Computing Symposium 2017.

The ALTA 2017 workshop is the key local forum for socialising research results
in natural language processing and computational linguistics, with
presentations and posters from student, industry, and early-career
researchers.

We particularly encourage submissions that broaden the scope of our community
through the consideration of practical applications of language technology and
through multi-disciplinary research. We also specifically encourage
submissions from industry.

For this year's workshop, we are planning to feature invited keynote speakers,
a special interest panel, and a shared task that encourages promising students
to get involved in language technology research.

Call for Papers:

ALTA 2017 website: http://alta2017.alta.asn.au

Key Dates:

Submission Deadline: 7 October, 2017
Author Notification: 8 November, 2017
Camera-Ready Deadline: 15 November, 2017
Main Conference: 7-8 December, 2017

Format:

We invite submissions of two different formats:

- Original Research Papers:

We invite the submission of papers on original and unpublished research on all
aspects of natural language processing.

Long papers should be 6-8 pages. Accepted long papers will have a 15 minute
slot for oral presentation plus 5 minutes for questions and discussion. Short
papers should be 3-4 pages. Accepted short papers will have a poster
presentation plus a short approximately 5 minute talk to advertise the poster.
Both formats may include up to 2 pages of references in addition to these page
count requirements.

Note that the review process is double-blind, and accordingly submitted papers
should not include the author identity and the text should be suitably
anonymised, e.g., using third person wording for self-citations, not providing
URLs to your person website, etc.

Original research papers will be included in the workshop proceedings, which
will be published online in the ACL anthology and the ALTA website. Long
papers will be distinguished from short papers in the proceedings.

- Abstract-based Presentations:

To encourage broader participation and facilitate local socialisation of
international results, we continue the presentations format introduced last
year. We invite submissions of 1-2 page presentation abstracts. These will not
be published in the proceedings, but simply reviewed by the ALTA executive
committee to ensure that they are on topic, coherent and likely to be of
interest to the ALTA community. Abstracts on work in progress and work
published or submitted elsewhere are encouraged. 

ALTA invites submissions of all manner interesting research, not limited to,
but including:

- Established academics giving an overview of an exciting paper or paper/s
published in international venues
- Completing research students giving an overview of their thesis work
- Early candidature research students presenting their work-in-progress and
ideas, which may not have been published
- Industry presenting research and development over linguistic data in the
context of their business

Presentation abstracts should not be anonymised, any publications relating to
the work should be cited in the submission, and the person who will give the
presentation should be clearly stated. Successful submissions will have a 15
or 30 minute slot for an oral presentation. Please nominate what length
presentation you would prefer in your submission, although note that we may
not be able to honour this request.

Topics:

ALTA invites submissions 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 
- Applied natural language processing and/or applications in industry

Submission Site:

Please submit your papers on EasyChair
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alta2017). 

For more information about the call for papers, including template files,
please visit http://alta2017.alta.asn.au/submissions.html .

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