LINGUIST List 21.2815 Tue Jul 06 2010 Calls: Computational Linguistics/Australia Editor for this issue: Elyssa Winzeler <elyssalinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.    Simon Zwarts, Australasian Language Technology Workshop Message 1: Australasian Language Technology Workshop Date: 28-Jun-2010 From: Simon Zwarts <simon.zwartsmq.edu.au> Subject: Australasian Language Technology Workshop E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Australasian Language Technology Workshop Short Title: ALTA 2010 Date: 09-Dec-2010 - 10-Dec-2010 Location: Melbourne, VIC, Australia Contact Person: Nitin Indurkhya Simon Zwarts Meeting Email: ALTW2010gmail.com Web Site: http://www.alta.asn.au/events/alta2010/ Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics Call Deadline: 20-Sep-2010 Meeting Description: Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTA 2010) http://www.alta.asn.au/events/alta2010/ Submissions deadline: Monday 20th September 2010 Overview: This year, the Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTA) will be held at the University of Melbourne in Melbourne on Thursday 9th and Friday 10th of December 2010. This event will be the eighth annual installment of the ALTA Workshop in its most-recent incarnation, and the continuation of an annual workshop series that has existed under various guises since the early 90s. The goals of the ALTA workshop are: - To bring together the growing Language Technology (LT) community in Australia and New Zealand and encourage interactions - To encourage interactions and collaboration within this community and with the wider international LT community - To foster interaction between academic and industrial researchers, to encourage dissemination of research results - To provide a forum for students and young researchers to present their research - To facilitate the discussion of new and ongoing research and projects - To provide an opportunity for the broader artificial intelligence community to become aware of local LT research - To increase visibility of LT research in Australia, New Zealand and overseas Call for Papers Topics: We invite the submission of papers on original and unpublished research on all aspects of natural language processing, including, but not limited to: - Phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse - Speech understanding and generation - Interpreting spoken and written language - Natural language generation - Linguistic, mathematical, and psychological models of language - Nlp-based information extraction and retrieval - Corpus-based and statistical language modeling - Machine translation and translation aids - Question answering and information extraction - Natural language interfaces and dialogue systems - Natural language and multimodal systems - Message and narrative understanding systems - Evaluations of language systems - Embodied conversational agents - Computational lexicography - Summarisation We welcome submissions on any topic that is of interest to the LT community, and particularly encourage submissions that broaden the scope of our community through the consideration of practical LT applications and through multi-disciplinary research. We also specifically encourage submissions from industry. Important Dates: - Submissions deadline: Monday 20th September - Accept/reject: Monday 11th October - Final camera ready: Monday 1st November - ALTA Workshop: Thursday 9th and Friday 10th December Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 06-Jul-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.