Australasian Language Technology Summer School
and Australasian Language Technology Workshop
http://www.conferences.unimelb.edu.au/alta/
8-12 December 2003, University of Melbourne
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
The Australasian Language Technology Association is holding a summer
school and workshop in December 2003. Registration is now open.
REGISTRATION
Registration is now open; early registration deadline: 10 October.
http://www.conferences.unimelb.edu.au/alta/
WORKSHOP (SUBMISSION DEADLINE 30 AUGUST)
The Australasian Language Technology Workshop will be held on
Wednesday 10th December 2003. 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.
The submission deadline is 30 August. For further details see:
http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/research/ai/ALTW2003/
SUMMER SCHOOL
The Summer School will consist of eight short courses, targetted at
postgraduate students and researchers in academia and industry.
Courses will be held on 8-9 and 11-12 December.
INTRODUCTORY COURSES
I1: Practical NLP using Python
(Trevor Cohn and Steven Bird, Melbourne)
I2: Speech processing
(David Grayden, Melbourne)
I3: Dialogue systems
(Robert Dale, Macquarie, and Dominique Estival, DSTO)
I4: Information extraction and question answering
(Diego Molla, Macquarie)
ADVANCED COURSES
A1: Machine translation
(Harold Somers, UMIST, UK)
A2: Validation and evaluation in NLP and IR
(David Powers, Flinders)
A3: Statistical parsing
(Mark Johnson, Brown University, USA)
A4: SVMs and kernel methods in NLP
(Jim Hogan, QUT)
FREE PUBLIC LECTURES
* Discourse Representation Theory
(Alistair Knott, Otago)
* Text planning
(Robert Dale, Macquarie)
* Language technologies and HCI
(Cecile Paris, CSIRO)
* Linguistic annotation
(Steven Bird, Melbourne, and Steve Cassidy, Macquarie)
* Agent-oriented NLP
(Peter Wallis, Melbourne)
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| | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri |
+-------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| 8:30-10:00 | I1,A1 | I1,A1 | | I3,A3 | I3,A3 |
| 10:30-12:00 | | | | | |
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| 1:30-2:30 | Lectures | ALTW | Lectures |
+-------------+-------+-------+ +-------+-------+
| 2:30-4:00 | 12,A2 | I2,A2 | | I4,A4 | I4,A4 |
| 4:30-6:00 | | | | | |
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LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY FORUM
On the evening of Wednesday 10 December we will hold a public
forum on the industrial and social impacts of language technology.
Details to be announced.
-- Australasian Language Technology Association http://www.alta.asn.au/
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