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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.
Collaboration
ALTA is a founding regional organisation of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing.
ALTA manages funds for OzCLO, the Australian Computational and Linguistics Olympiad.
Organisation
ALTA operates according to the ALTA Constitution.
For 2011-12, the ALTA Executive Committee is:
| Tim Baldwin (president) |
University of Melbourne |
| Andrew Lampert (secretary) |
CSIRO ICT Centre / Macquarie University |
| Li Wang (student representative) |
University of Melbourne |
| Diego Mollá (past president) |
Macquarie University |
| Mark Johnson |
Macquarie University |
| David Martínez |
NICTA Victoria Research Laboratory / University of Melbourne |
| Scott Nowson |
Appen |
Former ALTA Executive Committee members
- 2009-2010
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- President: Diego Mollá
- Secretary: Andrew Lampert
- Student representative: Pawel Mazur
- Past President: Rolf Schwitter
- General members: Dominique Estival, David Martínez
- 2007-2008
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- President: Rolf Schwitter
- Secretary: Diego Mollá
- Student representative: Andrew Lampert
- Past President: Cécile Paris
- General members: Dominique Estival, Lawrence Cavedon
- 2005-2006
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- President: Cécile Paris
- Secretary: Diego Mollá
- Student representative: Patrick Ye
- Past President: Steven Bird
- General members: 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