2003 Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTW2003)
Melbourne, Australia

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Purpose

A one-day workshop on Natural Language Technology will be organised by the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA). The workshop will be held in conjunction with the Australasian Language Technology Summer School in Melbourne: http://www.conferences.unimelb.edu.au/alta/index.html/

The goals of the workshop are:

• to bring together the growing Language Technology (LT) community in Australia and New Zealand;
• to encourage interactions between this community and the international LT community;
• to provide an opportunity for the broader artificial intelligence community to become aware of local LT research;
• to provide a forum for discussion of new research;
• to foster interaction between academic and industrial research.

Our hope is to get as many Australasian LTers together as possible to encourage dialogue between those working on similar topics and between areas with a - perhaps as yet untapped - potential to interact.

We would also like to encourage non-Australasian LTers to submit papers, and to participate in the workshop.

Papers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed by an international programme committee, and the workshop proceedings will be published with an ISBN number.

Topic

We invite the submission of papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of natural language processing, including, but not limited to:

• speech understanding and generation;
• phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse;
• interpreting and generating spoken and written language;
• linguistic, mathematical, and psychological models of language;
• language-oriented information extraction and retrieval;
• corpus-based and statistical language modeling;
• machine translation and translation aids;
• natural language interfaces and dialogue systems;
• message and narrative understanding systems;
• computational lexicography.

We welcome submissions on any topic that is of interest to the LT community, but we particularly encourage submissions that broaden the scope of our community through the consideration of practical LT applications. We especially invite people from industry working on LT to send us their submissions and offer an opportunity to discuss and demonstrate their latest applications in front of an informed audience.

Program Committee

• Alistair Knott, University of Otago (NZ) (Co-chair)
• Dominique Estival, DSTO (AU) (Co-chair)
• Steven Bird, University of Melbourne (AU)
• Robert Dale, Macquarie University (AU)
• Michael Dukes, University of Stanford (USA)
• Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto (CA)
• Baden Hughes, University of Melbourne (AU)
• Diego Molla-Aliod, Macquarie University (AU)
• Cecile Paris, CSIRO (AU)
• Owen Rambow, Columbia University (USA)
• Tony Smith, University of Waikato (NZ)
• Ingrid Zukerman, Monash University (AU)

Submission Format

The length of the submissions should not exceed 8 pages, printed single-spaced in 11 point font. For the camera-ready version of the papers, please follow the instructions detailed on the workshop's homepage (instructions for authors).

The first page of your submission should include:

• paper title,
• author name(s) and affiliation,
• complete addresses including email address and fax number,
• keywords,
• abstract.

Only electronic submissions of PDF or PostScript files will be accepted. If we cannot print your file by the submission date it will be rejected without being reviewed. Therefore you are encouraged to send an early version with the typographical complexity of your final intended version so that we can check it is printable. Electronic submissions should be sent to altw-submit@cs.otago.ac.nz.

Important Dates

More Information

The ALTW2003 webpage will regularly be updated with useful information about the workshop: http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/research/ai/ALTW2003

You can contact the workshop organisers for further information: altw-info@cs.otago.ac.nz

Last modified: Wed Jun 4 2003