Dear Colleagues,
We're delighted to announce that the CfP for the 22nd Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association - ALTA 2024 - is now open and closes on 20th September (23:59hrs Anywhere on Earth UTC -12)
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Important Dates
Overview
The 22nd Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA) will be held in a
hybrid format at the Australian National University, Canberra, from 2 December to 4 December 2024 and also online.
The ALTA 2024 workshop is the key local forum for socialising research results in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational Linguistics (CL). It will feature presentations, posters, and demonstrations from students, industry, and academic researchers.
Like previous years, we also encourage submissions and participation from industry and government researchers and developers. Note that ALTA is listed in the
CORE 2023 Conference Rankings as Australasian C.
Topics
ALTA invites the submission of papers and presentations on all aspects of NLP and CL, including, but not limited to:
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Commonsense Reasoning.
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Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics.
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Dialogue and Interactive Systems.
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Discourse and Pragmatics.
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Efficient Methods for NLP.
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Ethics in NLP.
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Information Extraction.
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Information Retrieval and Text Mining.
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Interpretability, Interactivity and Analysis of Models for NLP.
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Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond.
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Language Modeling and Analysis of Language Models.
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Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics.
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Machine Learning for NLP.
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Machine Translation.
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Multilinguality and Linguistic Diversity.
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Natural Language Generation.
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NLP Applications.
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Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation.
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Question Answering.
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Resources and Evaluation.
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Semantics: Lexical, Sentence level, Document Level, Textual Inference, etc.
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Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining.
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Speech and Multimodality.
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Summarisation.
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Syntax, Parsing and their Applications.
We particularly encourage submissions that broaden the scope of our community by considering practical applications of language technology and multidisciplinary research. We also specifically encourage submissions from the industry.
Format and instructions for authors
We are using OpenReview for submissions, and invite submissions of three different formats: (1) Original Research Papers, (2) Abstract-based Presentations, and (3) Industry Demonstrations.
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With kind regards, on behalf of the ALTA 2024 Team:
Dr Gabriela Ferraro, General Chair
Professor Tim Baldwin, Program Chair
Dr Sergio José Rodríguez Méndez, Program Chair
Dr Nicholas Kuo, Program Chair
Dr Anton Malko, Publication Chair
Dr Dawei Chen, Technology Chair
A/Prof Shunichi Ishihara, Finance Chair
Charbel El-Khaissi, PhD candidate, Sponsorship Chair
Ned Cooper, PhD candidate, Local Chair
Kathy Reid, PhD candidate, Publicity Chair