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To add an event send an email to Diego Molla or Andrew Lampert with specific details and a Web link to more detailed information.

25/08/10 Support ALTA to regain its ERA Conference ranking

You may be aware that, in a last minute decision at the beginning of 2010 the ARC decided to drop all conferences with FOR code 0807 from the ERA rankings. Our understanding is that this was a request from ALIA (Australia Library and Information Association), on the grounds that library researchers do not use conferences as their research input. This was unfortunate for ALTA, ADCS and other conferences who happened to fall under the 0807 code but which are not primarily attended by librarians. We (ALTA and ADCS) have informally asked people who were involved in the ERA rankings to consider restoring the two conferences to their original B ranking. We have received no positive response other than the name of a contact person, Andrew Calder, to whom we could approach. We are going to send this letter and we urge all ALTA members to post the same letter or one with similar contents. We think that it will be most effective if the letters are posted on paper, rather than electronically.

Feel free to adapt the text to your particular case, but by all means please post a request to restore the ERA level B to ALTA. If you do send a letter, tell me by email so that I can keep track of petitioners.

29/06/10 ALTA on Twitter

ALTA has joined the Twitterverse, and will now be posting news updates to Twitter. Follow @altanlp on Twitter to keep abreast of local LT and NLP news. We'll be using the RSS feed from the ALTA Twitter page as our News RSS feed from now, so if you follow our RSS feed, please update your feed reader.

16/06/10 ALTA 2010

This year, the Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTA) will be held at the University of Melbourne on Thursday 9th and Friday 10th of December 2010. This event is 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.

• Workshop Website
• Call for Papers

27/04/10 ALTA Proceedings now in the ACL Anthology

ALTA is pleased to announce that all papers from past ALTA workshops are being uploaded to the ACL Anthology.

Currently all papers since 2005 are available in the Anthology; the rest will soon be uploaded. We will continue uploading the papers of future workshops.

ALTA would like to thank Pawel Mazur (ALTA) and Min-Yen Kan (ACL) for their work on the preparation and upload of the past papers.

15/04/10 OzCLO 2010

On 21 March, the National Round of OZCLO was held simultaneously in Adelaide, Armidale, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney. In the National Round, the winning teams from each State Round competed to solve problems on Etruscan dice, Quechua counting systems, possession in a language of Vanuatu, and other problems. Competitors ranged from year 9 to year 12, and came from both state and private schools. The competition was a huge success and a lot of fun for all involved.

The winners of the National Round of OzCLO 2010 are:

First Prize: Victoria: PLC (Senior team ) Samantha Hauptman, Michelle Jayasuriya, Carmen Wu, Sally Yu

Second Prize: New South Wales: James Ruse Agricultural High School (Senior team) Gerald Mak, Evan Tran, Richard Yuen, Andrew Wang

Third Prize and Top Junior Team: Western Australia: St Mary's Anglican Girls School (Junior team) Rikki Thorne, Lucy Wu, Sasha Newman, Julia Liu

• OzCLO site

8/09/09 ALTA Brochure

We have created a foldable brochure about ALTA. Please feel free to download, print and distribute it.

• ALTA Brochure