ALTA Workshop 2009

Overview

This year, the Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTA) will be held as part of the HCSNet Summerfest 2009 at the University of New South Wales in Sydney on Thursday 3rd and Friday 4th of December 2009. This event will be the seventh 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.

Getting There

SummerFest '09 will take place predominantly in the Central Lecture Block (E19) on the UNSW campus (near the UNSW Library and the Commerce Courtyard). You can find more information here, how to get there by public transport and by car. The ALTA workshop will be held in the Central Lecture Block, CLB Theatre 6.

SummerFest '09 Program

You can find the entire SummerFest '09 program here in PDF format. This program contains the ALTA Workshop program on pages 13 (for Thursday) and 18 (for Friday).

Plenary Talk

David Traum: Spoken Dialogue Models for Virtual Humans, (slides), ALTA, December 4, 2009.

*** ALTA Award Winners 2009 ***

Best Paper Award

• James Breen and Timothy Baldwin
  Corpus-based Extraction of Japanese Compound Verbs

Best Student Presentation

• Nicky Ringland

Past Workshops and Summer Schools

• ALTA 2008
• ALTW 2007
• Workshop ALTW 2006
• Workshop ALTW 2005
• Summer School ALTSS 2004
• Workshop ALTW 2004
• Summer School ALTSS 2003
• Workshop ALTW 2003