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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.
ALTA's Mission
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.
Organisation
ALTA operates according to the ALTA Constitution.
For 2009-10, the ALTA Executive Committee is:
| Diego Mollá (president) |
Macquarie University |
| Andrew Lampert (secretary) |
CSIRO / Macquarie University |
| Pawel Mazur (student representative) |
Macquarie University |
| David Martínez |
NICTA Victoria Research Laboratory |
| Dominique Estival |
University of Sydney |
| Rolf Schwitter |
Macquarie University |
Former ALTA Executive Committee members
- 2007-2008
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- President: Rolf Schwitter
- Secretary: Diego Mollá
- Student representative: Andrew Lampert
- General members: Cécile Paris, Dominique Estival, Lawrence Cavedon
- 2005-2006
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- President: Cécile Paris
- Secretary: Diego Mollá
- Student representative: Patrick Ye
- General members: Steven Bird, Dominique Estival, James Curran, Andrew Lampert
- 2003-2004
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- President: Steven Bird
- Secretary: Diego Mollá
- Student representative: Stephen Wan
- General members: Robert Dale, Alistai Knott, Cécile Paris