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Summer School

Introductory Courses

• Practical NLP using Python: Trevor Cohn and Steven Bird, University of Melbourne
• Speech processing: David Grayden, Bionic Ear Institute, Melbourne
• Dialogue systems: Robert Dale, Macquarie and Dominique Estival, DSTO
• Information extraction and question answering: Diego Molla, Macquarie University

Advanced Courses

• Machine translation: Harold Somers, UMIST, UK
• Validation and evaluation in NLP and IR: David Powers, Flinders University
• Statistical parsing: Mark Johnson, Brown University, USA
• SVMs and kernel methods in NLP: Jim Hogan, QUT

Workshop

• Workshop Papers

Public Lectures

• Approximate string matching: Ricardo Baeza-Yates, University of Chile
• Discourse Representation Theory: Alistair Knott, University of Otago
• Text planning: Robert Dale, Macquarie University
• Language technologies and HCI: Cecile Paris, CSIRO
• Linguistic annotation and AGTK/EMU: Steven Bird, University of Melbourne
• Deep Lexical Acquisition: Timothy Baldwin, CSLI Stanford
• Agent-oriented NLP: Peter Wallis, University of Melbourne

Forum

• Language Technology Forum

General Resources

• Survey of the State of the Art in Human Language Technology
• Conference Website (Archive Copy)
• ALTA Website
• ALTSS2003 & ALTW2003 Proceedings Updates

• Index
• Preface
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements