Australasian Language Technology Summer School
Australasian Language Technology Workshop
8-12 December 2003, University of Melbourne
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
The Australasian Language Technology Summer School is being organized by ALTA, the Australasian Language Technology Association. The summer school will consist of about 10 short courses, targeted at postgraduate students and researchers in academia and industry. There will be introductory courses on text technologies, speech technologies, statistical language processing and data-intensive linguistics. Advanced courses will be offered on a selection of the following topics: parsing, generation, dialogue systems, information extraction, question answering, agents, machine learning, and human-computer interaction. Courses will take place on 8-9 and 11-12 December.
The Australasian Language Technology Workshop will provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of new research in language technology. Alistair Knott (University of Otago, NZ) and Dominique Estival (DSTO, AU) are the program chairs, and have circulated a call for papers. The workshop proceedings will be published with ISBN. (Note that this event continues the previous ANLP series, e.g. ANLP 2002.)
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.
A series of free, public lectures will also be held during that week, featuring leaders in the field of language technology.
On the evening of Wednesday 10 December we will host a Forum, where language technology developers from industry and academia can network with the language technology community, and also specially invited senior figures from industry, education and government. The keynote speakers are internationally recognised leaders in their fields.
Each of these events will be held in the ICT Building, 111 Barry St, Carlton.
ABOUT ALTA
Most human knowledge, and most human communication, is represented and expressed using language, both in written and spoken forms. Language technologies permit computers to process human language, providing more natural human-machine interfaces, and more sophisticated access to stored information. Language technologies will play a central role in the multilingual information society of the future. The purpose of the Australasian Language Technology Association is to promote language technology research and development in Australia and New Zealand. ALTA will organise regular events for the exchange of research results and for academic and industrial training, and will co-ordinate activities with other professional societies. For more information, visit the ALTA home page.
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Convenor
Local Arrangements
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Conference
Management Bronwen Hewitt |