The Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA) promotes language technology research and development in Australia and New Zealand. ALTA organises regular events for the exchange of research results and for academic and industrial training, and co-ordinates activities with other professional societies. ALTA is a founding regional organization of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP). Every year early December ALTA organises a research workshop (commonly known as ALTW) gathering together the growing

language technology Language technology, often called human language technology (HLT), studies methods of how computer programs or electronic devices can analyze, produce, modify or respond to human texts and speech. Working with language technology often requires broa ...

community in Australia and New Zealand, both from the academic and industrial world. The workshop welcomes original work on any aspect of natural language processing, including both speech and text. Accepted papers are published in the ALTA proceedings, which are also included as part of the ACL Anthology. Since 2008 ALTA has been involved in organising the Australian Computational and Linguistics OlympiadOzCLO home page
/ref> (OzCLO), which is a contest for high school students in the area of linguistics and computational linguistics.

Conferences

*ALTW2003, 10 December 2003,

Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...

. *ALTW2004, 8 December 2004,

Sydney Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountain ...

. *ALTW2005, 10–11 December 2005,

. *ALTW2006, 30 November - 1 December 2006,

, as part of the HCSNet SummerFest. *ALTA2007, 10–11 December 2007,

, in conjunction with ADCS. *ALTA2008, 8–10 December 2008,

Hobart Hobart ( ; Nuennonne/Palawa kani: ''nipaluna'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Home to almost half of all Tasmanians, it is the least-populated Australian state capital city, and second-small ...

, in conjunction with ADCS. *ALTA2009, 3–4 December 2009,

, as part of the HCSNet Summerfest. *ALTA2010, 9–10 December 2010,

, in conjunction with ADCS.
ALTA2011
1–2 December 2011,

Canberra Canberra ( ) is the capital city of Australia. Founded following the federation of the colonies of Australia as the seat of government for the new nation, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The ci ...

, in conjunction with ADCS an
langfest 2011
which includes the 2nd combined conference of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA) and the Applied Linguistics Association of New Zealand (ALANZ), as well as the 42nd Annual Conference of the Australian Linguistics Society (ALS)
ALTW2012
6–5 December 2012,

Dunedin Dunedin ( ; mi, Ōtepoti) is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand (after Christchurch), and the principal city of the Otago region. Its name comes from , the Scottish Gaelic name for Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. Th ...

in conjunction with ADCS.
ALTW2013
4–6 December 2013,

Brisbane Brisbane ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the states and territories of Australia, Australian state of Queensland, and the list of cities in Australia by population, third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a populati ...

in conjunction with ADCS.
ALTW2014
26–28 November 2014,

, in conjunction with ADCS.

Notes

External links

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