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ALTA 2024 Workshop

The 2024 Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop (ALTA 2024) will be held from the 2nd-4th of December, 2024, in Canberra.

• Workshop website
• Publication ethics statement

ALTA 2024 Shared Task

The ALTA 2024 Shared Task is now open for participation. Submit your runs by 6 October!

• 2024 shared task website

ALTA 2025-2026 Election

Following the latest election, we are pleased to announce the positions for the executive committee:

• Jey Han Lau (president), University of Melbourne
• Diego Molla-Aliod (secretary), Macquarie University
• Meladel Mistica (treasurer), University of Melbourne
• Massimo Picardi (regular member), University of Technology Sydney
• Gabriela Ferraro (regular member), Australian National University
• Xiang Dai (regular member), CSIRO Data61
• Aditya Joshi (regular member), University of New South Wales
• Ming-Bin (Bryan) Chen (student representative), University of Melbourne

The Role of Research in Language Technology

The cutting-edge nature of Language Technology means that research is particularly important: there are many unsolved problems in the automated processing of spoken and written language, and in many cases we have only begun to scratch the surface. Research in Language Technology, which for our purposes covers a space that also includes Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics, draws on work in a diverse array of disciplines, including linguistics, psychology, philosophy and computer science, and now, with the increasing role played by statistical methods, also mathematics.

Research Activity in Australasia

Given the wide range of contributing disciplines, research in Language Technology in Australia and New Zealand is carried out in many different contexts. The listing below provides pointers to clusters of activity that involve more than one or two individual researchers.

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