AUSTRALASIAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOP (ALTA 2018)
Call for Participation
The 16th Annual Workshop of the Australian Language Technology Association will be held on 10th to 12th of December at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, co-located with the Australian Document Computing Symposium 2018. The ALTA 2018 workshop is the key local forum for socialising research results in natural language processing and computational linguistics, with presentations and posters from student, industry, and academic researchers. This year, we would also like to encourage submissions and participation from industry and government department researchers and developers.
Registration cost if AU$100 for academics and professionals, and free for students. Registration open now: https://www.trybooking.com/ZKPP
Tutorial: 10th December, 2018 Main Conference: 11th-12th December, 2018 Location: The University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
# Invited keynote talks
Topic: Learning to talk like a baby A/Prof. Alistair Knott, University of Otago / Soul Machines
Topic: ‘Where am I, and what am I doing here? Extracting geographic information from natural language text.’ Dr Kristin Stock, Massey University
# Tutorial
Topic: Towards Collaborative Dialogue Dr. Phil Cohen Professor and Director, Laboratory for Dialogue Research Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University
For details of the program, including accepted papers, please visit the ALTA 2018 website: http://alta2018.alta.asn.au
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