Message 1: Australasian Language Technology Summer SchoolDate: 22-Sep-2004From: Diego Molla <diego Subject: Australasian Language Technology Summer School Australasian Language Technology Summer School Sydney, New South Wales, Australia December 04-07, 2004 http://www.alta.asn.au/events/altss2004/ The Australasian Language Technology Summer School is being organised by ALTA, the Australasian Language Technology Association. The summer school will consist of a range of courses targeted at postgraduate students and researchers in academia and industry. Courses will take place on 4-7 December at Macquarie University and the event will be co-llocated with the Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTWS 2004) and the Australian International Conference on Speech Science & Technology (SST 2004). Full courses will have four sessions of 1.5 hours each, distributed in two days. Half courses will have two sessions of 1.5 hours each. The program is scheduled so that introductory courses run in parallel with advanced courses. Introductory Courses * VoiceXML 4-5 Dec, morning Rolf Schwitter - Macquarie University, Sydney * Speech Annotation with EMU 4-5 Dec, afternoon Steve Cassidy - Macquarie University, Sydney * Speech Processing 6-7 Dec, morning David Grayden - The Bionic Ear Institute, Melbourne * Grammar Formalisms 6-7 Dec, afternoon Ash Asudeh - University of Canterbury, Christchurch Advanced Courses * Information Retrieval 4-5 Dec, morning Mark Sanderson - University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK * Multiword Expressions 4-5 Dec, afternoon Timothy Baldwin - University of Melbourne, Melbourne * Maximum Entropy Modelling 6-7 Dec, morning James Curran - University of Sydney, Sydney * Text Categorisation (half course) 7 Dec, morning Prof. Jon David Patrick - University of Sydney, Sydney * Prosody and Intonation in Australian English (half course) 7 Dec, afternoon Janet Fletcher - University of Melbourne, Melbourne See http://www.alta.asn.au/events/altss2004/ for further details. Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue |