Australasian Language Technology Association ALTSS 2003: Australasian Language Technology Summer School and ALTW 2003: Australasian Language Technology Workshop 8-12 December 2003, University of Melbourne Course Selection Form Please highlight or tick and return by email Certain courses have limitations on numbers, so please indicate your selections clearly to ensure a place Monday 8:30-12:00 I1-Practical NLP using Python ? 8:30-12:00 A1-Machine Translation ? 2:30--6:00 I2-Speech processing ? 2:30--6:00 A2-Validation and Evaluation in NLP and IR ? Tuesday 8:30-12:00 I1-Practical NLP using Python ? 8:30-12:00 A1-Machine Translation ? 2:30--6:00 I2-Speech processing ? 2:30--6:00 A2-Validation and Evaluation in NLP and IR ? Wednesday 8:30-6:00 ALTW ? Thursday 8:30-12:00 I3-Dialogue systems ? 8:30-12:00 A3-Probabilistic models and stochastic grammars ? 2:30--6:00 I4-Information extraction and question answering ? 2:30--6:00 A4-SVMs and kernel methods in NLP ? Friday 8:30-12:00 I3-Dialogue systems ? 8:30-12:00 A3-Information extraction and question answering ? 2:30--6:00 I4-Information extraction and question answering ? 2:30--6:00 A4-SVMs and kernel methods in NLP ? Lectures Selection of public lectures does not oblige you to attend, but is for administrative purposes Monday 1.30- 2.30 Dale: Text Planning in the Large: Discourse Structure ? Baeza-Yates: Approximate string matching ? Tuesday 1.30- 2.30 Knott: Introduction to Discourse Representation Theory ? Baeza-Yates: Approximate string matching (2) ? Thursday 1.30- 2.30 Dale: Text Planning in the Small: Referring Expressions ? Wallis: Language in a Social Setting: Agent Oriented NLP ? Friday 1.30- 2.30 Cassidy/Bird: Linguistic annotation ? Paris: Language technologies and HCI ? Please return to: bhewitt@unimelb.edu.au Old Physics Building, The University of Melbourne Fax: 03-8344-6122