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Australasian Language Technology Summer School

Australasian Language Technology Workshop

8-12 December 2003, University of Melbourne

Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering

 

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Keynote speakers:

Mark Johnson, Brown University, USA

Mark Johnson is Professor of Cognitive & Linguistic Sciences and Computer Science at Brown University. He is also the current president of the Association for Computational Linguistics. He has made significant contributions to research into computational processes involved in human language understanding, and is at the forefront of research in statistical natural language processing.

 

Harold Somers, UMIST, UK

Harold Somers is Professor of Language Engineering at UMIST (Manchester), UK. With over 25 years experience in the field both as a researcher and educator, he is editor of one of the fields premier journals (Machine Translation), and has written extensively on the subject. His latest publication Computers and Translation (John Benjamins, 2003) promises to become an influential and useful addition to the literature.

 

Wednesday 10 December 7pm - 9pm
Theatre 1, ICT Building
111 Barry St, Carlton

Further details to follow

 

Convenor
A/Prof Steven Bird
Dept of Computer Science
University of Melbourne

Local Arrangements
Cathy Bow
Dept of Computer Science
University of Melbourne

Conference Management
The University of Melbourne
Jen Westphal
Telephone: +61 (03) 8344 6107
Facsimile: +61 (03) 8344 6122
Email: westphal@unimelb.edu.au

Bronwen Hewitt
Telephone: +61 (03) 8344 6389
Facsimile: +61 (03) 8344 6122
Email: bhewitt@unimelb.edu.au