Second Call for Participation: ALTA 2011
Diego Molla-Aliod
that the deadline for early registration is 20 November 2011.
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Call for Participation
Australasian Workshop for Language Technology (ALTA 2011)
http://www.alta.asn.au/events/alta2011/index.html
1-2 December, 2011
Canberra, Australia
This year's workshop will be organised in Canberra on the 1st and 2nd
of December, 2011. We invite you to attend the workshop and extend a
warm welcome to all participants interested in the state-of-the-art in
language technology research. We have an interesting set of accepted
papers which will give the participants a better understanding of
language technology processing, especially in the Australasian area.
This year, ALTA is listed as a langfest event, which includes events
such as the Australian Linguistics Society (ALS) conference and the
Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS). We hope that this
will be an opportunity to explore synergies across the different
disciplines that deal with natural language.
Another exciting feature of this year's workshop is the second edition
of the Language Technology Programming Competition. It is formatted as
a "shared task": all participants compete to salve the same
problem. The problem highlights an active area of research and
programming in the area of language technology. The winner of the
competition will be announced in a special session and details of the
shared task will be provided.
The program is attached below. All information regarding the workshop can
be found on the ALTA2011 website.
9:00-10:00 Keynote presentation
Wray Buntine
Discovery in Text: Visualisation, Topics and Statistics
10:00-10:30 Coffee break (30 mins)
10:30-10:40 Introductory remarks by local organisers
10:40-12:20 Oral presentations
Benjamin Börschinger and Mark Johnson
A Particle Filter algorithm for Bayesian Wordsegmentation
Bevan Jones, Mark Johnson and Sharon Goldwater
Formalizing Semantic Parsing with Tree Transducers
Mark Johnson
Parsing in Parallel on Multiple Cores and GPUs
Mehdi Parviz, Mark Johnson, Blake Johnson and Jon Brock
Using Language Models and Latent Semantic Analysis to Characterise
the N400m Neural Response
LUNCH
14:00-15:15 Oral presentations
Shunichi Ishihara
A Forensic Authorship Classification in SMS Messages: A Likelihood
Ratio Based Approach Using N-gram
Su Nam Kim and Lawrence Cavedon
Classifying Domain-Specific Terms Using a Dictionary
Stephen Merity and James Curran
Frontier Pruning for Shift-Reduce CCG Parsing
15:15-15:45 Coffee break (30 mins)
15:45-16:15 Poster presentations (5 mins per poster)
John Cocks and Te Taka Keegan
A word-based approach for diacritic restoration in Māori
Nobuagi Akagi and Francesco-Alessio Ursini
The Interpretation of Complement Anaphorae: the case of The Others
Francesco-Alessio Ursini and Nobuagi Akagi
The Interpretation of Plural Pronouns in Discourse: The Case of They
Jenny Mcdonald, Alistair Knott, Richard Zeng and Ayelet Cohen
Learning from student responses: A domain-independent natural language tutor
Md. Waliur Rahman Miah, John Yearwood and Sid Kulkarni
Detection of child exploiting chats from a mixed chat dataset as a
text classification task
Marcin Nowina-Krowicki, Andrew Zschorn, Michael Pilling and Steven Wark
ENGAGE: Automated Gestures for Animated Characters
16:15-17:25 Presenters put up their posters
17:25-18:45 Poster session with ALS + drinks
19:30- Dinner
Friday 2 December 2011
9:00-10:40 Joint session with ADCS
Li Wang, Diana Mccarthy and Timothy Baldwin
Predicting Thread Linking Structure by Lexical Chaining
Diego Molla and Maria Elena Santiago-Martinez
Development of a Corpus for Evidence Based Medicine Summarisation
Mike Symonds, Peter Bruza, Laurianne Sitbon and Ian Turner
Tensor Query Expansion: A cognitively motivated relevance model
Yan Shen, Yuefeng Li, Yue Xu, Renato Lannella, Abdulmohsen Algarni
and Xiaohui Tao
An Ontology-based Mining Approach for User Search Intent Discovery
10:40-11:10 Coffee break (30 mins)
11:10-12:25 Oral presentations
(best paper award) Francois Lareau, Mark Dras, Benjamin
Boerschinger and Robert Dale
Collocations in multilingual text generation: Lexical Functions
meet Lexical Functional Grammar
Abeed Sarker, Diego Molla and Cecile Paris
Outcome Polarity Identification of Medical Papers
Sze-Meng Wong and Mark Dras
Topic Modeling for Native Language Identification
14:00-15:00 Prizes and AGM
15:00-15:30 Special presentation
Dominique Estival
OzCLO: The Australian Computational Linguistic Olympiad
15:30-16:00 Coffee break (30 mins)
16:00-16:45 Special presentation
Diego Molla and Abeed Sarker.
Automatic Grading of Evidence: The 2011 ALTA Shared Task
16:45-17:00 Wrap-up
17:25-18:45 Poster session with ALS + drinks
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