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About ALTA
Most human knowledge, and most human communication, is represented
and expressed using language, both in written and spoken forms. Language
technologies permit computers to process human language, providing more natural
human-machine interfaces, and more sophisticated access to stored information.
Language technologies will play a central role in the multilingual information
society of the future.
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ALTA's Mission
The purpose of the Australasian Language Technology Association
is to promote language technology research and development in Australia and
New Zealand. ALTA will organise regular events for the exchange of research
results and for academic and industrial training, and will co-ordinate activities
with other professional societies.
Collaboration
ALTA is a founding regional organisation of the Asian Federation of Natural Language
Processing.
ALTA manages funds for OzCLO,
the Australian Computational and Linguistics Olympiad.
Organisation
ALTA operates according to the ALTA Constitution.
For 2025-2026, the ALTA Executive Committee is:
Jey Han Lau (president)
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University of Melbourne
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Diego Mollá (secretary)
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Macquarie University
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Mel Mistica (treasurer)
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University of Melbourne
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Ming-Bin (Bryan) Chen (student representative)
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University of Melbourne
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Massimo Picardi (past president)
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University of Technology Sydney
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Xiang Dai
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CSIRO Data61
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Gabriela Ferraro
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Australian National University
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Aditya Joshi
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University of New South Wales
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Former ALTA Executive Committee members
- 2023-2024
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- President: Massimo Picardi
- Secretary: Maria Kim
- Treasurer: Mel Mistica
- Student representative: Rui Xing
- Past President: Maria Kim
- General members: Jey Han Lau, Diego Mollá, Gabriela Ferraro
- 2021-2022
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- President: Maria Kim
- Secretary: Sarvnaz Karimi
- Treasurer: Mel Mistica
- Student representative: William Lane
- Past President: Sarvnaz Karimi
- General members: Diego Mollá, Massimo Piccardi, Afshin Rahimi
- 2019-2020
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- President: Sarvnaz Karimi
- Secretary: Stephen Wan
- Treasurer: Andrew MacKinlay
- Student representative: Xiang Dai
- Past President: Stephen Wan
- General members: Maria Kim, Diego Mollá
- 2017-2018
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- President: Stephen Wan
- Secretary: Ben Hachey
- Treasurer: Andrew MacKinlay
- Student representative: Yitong Li
- Past President: Ben Hachey
- General members: Trevor Cohn, Sarvnaz Karimi, Diego Mollá
- 2015-2016
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- President: Ben Hachey
- Secretary: Karin Verspoor
- Treasurer: Andrew MacKinlay
- Student representative: Kellie Webster
- Past President: Karin Verspoor
- General members: Trevor Cohn, Sarvnaz Karimi, Diego Mollá
- 2013-2014
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- President: Karin Verspoor
- Secretary: Tim Baldwin
- Treasurer: Andrew MacKinlay
- Student representative: Kellie Webster
- Past President: Tim Baldwin
- General members: Diego Mollá, Scott Nowson, Stephen Wan
- 2011-2012
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- President: Tim Baldwin
- Secretary: Andrew Lampert
- Student representative: Li Wang
- Past President: Diego Mollá
- General members: Mark Johnson, David Martínez,
Scott Nowson
- 2009-2010
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- President: Diego Mollá
- Secretary: Andrew Lampert
- Student representative: Pawel Mazur
- Past President: Rolf Schwitter
- General members: Dominique Estival, David Martínez
- 2007-2008
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- President: Rolf Schwitter
- Secretary: Diego Mollá
- Student representative: Andrew Lampert
- Past President: Cécile Paris
- General members: Dominique Estival, Lawrence Cavedon
- 2005-2006
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- President: Cécile Paris
- Secretary: Diego Mollá
- Student representative: Patrick Ye
- Past President: Steven Bird
- General members: Dominique Estival, James Curran, Andrew Lampert
- 2003-2004
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- President: Steven Bird
- Secretary: Diego Mollá
- Student representative: Stephen Wan
- General members: Robert Dale, Alistair Knott, Cécile Paris
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