2004 Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTW2004)

Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

Call for Papers

Workshop: 8th December 2004
Submissions due: 16th September 2004
ALTA website: http://www.alta.asn.au/
Workshop contact email: workshop AT alta.asn.au

Recent Updates (16th October 2004)

• Acceptance notifications will be sent out on the 18th of October 2004
• A 24hr submission extension has been granted. The paper submission date is now the 16th of September. This deadline is final and no further requests for extensions will be considered.
• Submission style files at:http://www.alta.asn.au/events/altw2004/format/style.html

Purpose

A one-day workshop on Natural Language Technology will be organised by the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA). The workshop will be held in conjunction with the Australasian Language Technology Summer School in Sydney. The workshop will run in parallel with the first day of SST 2004: http://www.assta.org/sst/2004

The goals of the workshop are:

• to bring together the growing Language Technology (LT) community in Australia and New Zealand and encourage interactions;
• to encourage dissemination of results;
• to foster interaction between academic and industrial research;
• to provide a forum for discussion of new research and students' research;
• to encourage interactions between this community and the international LT community;
• to provide an opportunity for the broader artificial intelligence community to become aware of local LT research; and, finally,
• to increase visibility of LT research in Australia, New Zealand and overseas.

Our hope is to get as many Australasian LT researchers together as possible to encourage dialogue between those working on similar topics and between areas with a - perhaps as yet untapped - potential to interact.

We would also like to encourage non-Australasian LT researchers to submit papers, and to participate in the workshop.

Papers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed by an international programme committee, and the workshop proceedings will be published with an ISBN number.

Program Committee

Ash Asudeh, University of Canterbury (NZ) (Co-chair)
Cécile Paris, CSIRO (AU) (Co-chair)
Stephen Wan, CSIRO and Macquarie University (AU) (Student Chair)
Steven Bird, University of Melbourne (AU)
Steve Cassidy, Macquarie University (AU)
Nathalie Colineau, CSIRO (AU)
Dominique Estival, DSTO (AU)
James Curran, Sydney University (AU)
Alistair Knott, University of Otago (NZ)
Mirella Lapata, University of Sheffield (UK)
Corrin Lakeland, University of Otago (NZ)
Nadine Ozkan, Scansoft (Canada)
Hiroshi Masuichi, Fujixerox (JP)
Daniel Midgley, University of Western Australia (AU)
Harold Somers, UMIST (UK)
Dekai Wu, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HK)

Topics

We invite the submission of papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of natural language processing, including, but not limited to:

• speech understanding and generation;
• phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse;
• interpreting and generating spoken and written language;
• linguistic, mathematical, and psychological models of language;
• language-oriented information extraction and retrieval;
• corpus-based and statistical language modelling;
• summarisation;
• machine translation and translation aids;
• natural language interfaces and dialogue systems;
• natural language and multimodal systems;
• message and narrative understanding systems;
• evaluations of language systems;
• computational lexicography.

We welcome submissions on any topic that is of interest to the LT community, but we particularly encourage submissions that broaden the scope of our community through the consideration of practical LT applications and through multi-disciplinary research. We especially invite people from industry working on LT to send us their submissions and offer an opportunity to discuss and demonstrate their latest applications in front of an informed audience.

Submission Format

The length of the submissions should not exceed 8 pages, printed single-spaced in 11 point font. Instructions for the camera-ready version of the papers can be found on the Workshop's homepage, available at http://www.alta.asn.au/events/altw2004/format/style.html.

The first page of your submission should include:

paper title,
author name(s) and affiliation,
complete addresses including email address and fax number,
keywords,
abstract.

Only electronic submissions of PDF or PostScript files will be accepted. If we cannot print your file by the submission date it will be rejected without being reviewed. Therefore you are encouraged to send an early version with the typographical complexity of your final intended version so that we can check it is printable. Electronic submissions should be sent to workshop AT alta.asn.au .

Important Dates

Paper submission:	Wednesday 16th September 2004
Notification of acceptance:	Friday 15th October 2004
Camera-ready copy:	Monday 1st November 2004
Workshop:	Wednesday 8th December 2004

More Information

A web page for ALTW2004 can be found on the ALTA web page: http://www.alta.asn.au/events/altw2004

You can contact the workshop organisers for further information: workshop AT alta.asn.au .