LT programming competition opens up to non-students

[Diego Molla]

There are some exciting news about the LT programming competition!

Due to several requests we are allowing non-students to participate in
the competition in an "open" category. Currently the category does not
have a prize other than the honour of being the best :-) and sponsors
are welcome.

Please forward the ammended call for participation, and indeed
consider participating in the competition.

Diego



Language Technology Programming Competition

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/programming/

**Update: New open category for non-students**

Macquarie University and the Australasian Language Technology
Association are organising a programming competition especially for
university undergraduate and Masters students. Interested...? Read on.

The Language Technology Programming Competition 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. You can easily obtain good results with
little effort yet nobody has managed to obtain 100% correct results so
far.

The winner to the competition will be invited to the workshop of the
Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA 2010) at Melbourne
on 9-10 December. In addition, the 10 best participants will receive a
$20 book voucher each.

We are also allowing participation by non-students in a separate
"open" category which currently has no prize (but this may change if
we find sponsors).

The key dates are:

Right Now - Registration and release of training and development
data
1 Nov 2010 - Release of test data
3 Nov 2010 - Deadline of submission of results
26 Nov 2010 - Deadline of submission of system description poster

Details of the task and registration are available at the competition
website (http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/programming/).