Call for Participation: ALTA 2011
Diego Molla-Aliod
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 will be made available soon, and the list of accepted
papers is attached below. All information regarding the workshop can
be found on the ALTA2011 website.
ACCEPTED PAPERS
- 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
Shunichi Ishihara. A Forensic Authorship Classification in SMS
Messages: A Likelihood Ratio Based Approach Using N-gram
Mark Johnson. Parsing in Parallel on Multiple Cores and GPUs
Abeed Sarker, Diego Molla and Cecile Paris. Outcome Polarity
Identification of Medical Papers
Su Nam Kim and Lawrence Cavedon. Classifying Domain-Specific Terms
Using a Dictionary
Li Wang, Diana Mccarthy and Timothy Baldwin. Predicting Thread Linking
Structure by Lexical Chaining
Mehdi Parviz, Mark Johnson, Blake Johnson and Jon Brock. Using
Language Models and Latent Semantic Analysis to Characterise the N400m
Neural Response
Diego Molla and Maria Elena Santiago-Martinez. Development of a Corpus
for Evidence Based Medicine Summarisation
Sze-Meng Wong and Mark Dras. Topic Modeling for Native Language
Identification
Francois Lareau, Mark Dras, Benjamin Boerschinger and Robert
Dale. Collocations in multilingual text generation: Lexical Functions
meet Lexical Functional Grammar
Stephen Merity and James Curran. Frontier Pruning for Shift-Reduce CCG
Parsing
- Poster Presentations:
John Cocks and Te Taka Keegan. A word-based approach for diacritic
restoration in Maori
Stephen Wan and Cecile Paris. Social Media Monitoring to Improve
Government Services
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
Kokil Jaidka, Christopher Khoo and Jin-Cheon Na. Developing a Method
for Automatic Literature Review Generation
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