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Latest ALTA News
- ALTA 2026 Workshop – Call for Papers
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We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the
24th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association
(ALTA'26), to be held in Melbourne, Australia, from 30 November to
2 December 2026 at Deakin University Downtown Campus.
ALTA'26 welcomes submissions of original, unpublished long and short papers covering
all aspects of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and
Computational Linguistics (CL). As in previous years, we strongly
encourage submissions and participation from industry and government researchers.
Key Dates
- Submission deadline (long and short papers): 11 September 2026
- Submission deadline for presentation abstracts and non-archival papers: 9 October 2026
- Author notification: 23 October 2026
- Camera-ready deadline: 6 November 2026
- Tutorial day: 30 November 2026
- Main conference: 1–2 December 2026
We look forward to receiving submissions from researchers and practitioners across
academia, industry, and government at ALTA'26.
More information: ALTA 2026 announcement.
- ALTA Online Monthly Seminar Series – June 2026
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ALTA runs an online monthly seminar series featuring senior
PhD students and postdocs from North America and Australia talking about all things
NLP. The audience is intended to be a mix of Australian academics and industry
professionals interested in NLP and LLMs. Our motivation is two-fold –
education and awareness: we want to increase the
exposure of NLP research and surface it to people outside NLP and academia.
Seminars are held on the first Thursday of each month at 9:00 AM
Australian Eastern Time (roughly 2–4 PM Pacific Time or 5–7 PM
Eastern Time, with some variation due to daylight saving).
The next seminar will be held on Thursday 4 June 2026, 9:00 AM AEST,
online via Zoom.
Featured speakers:
- Abid Ali (Macquarie University)
- Denis Peskoff (Postdoc, UC Berkeley)
See the seminar series page for the full 2026
schedule and contact information.
- Interspeech 2026 in Sydney
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ALTA is pleased to share Interspeech 2026, to be held in
Sydney, Australia, 27 September – 1 October 2026.
The conference theme is "Speaking Together".
Official conference website
- ALTA 2025 Workshop
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The
2025 Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop
(ALTA 2025) will be held from the 26th to the 28th of November, 2025, in Sydney.
- ALTA 2025 Shared Task
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The ALTA 2025 Shared Task is now open for participation. Submit your runs by 29 September!
- ALTA 2025-2026 Election
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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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