09:00–09:30 Introduction to the domain and motivations for text mining/Biomedical NLP
09:30–10:30 Language processing issues and language technology applications in the biomedical domain
10:30–10:50 Coffee
10:50–11:35 Overview of Shared Tasks
11:35–12:20 Overview of platforms, tools, and resources in the domain

Afternoon: Biomedical Application research

1:40–2:20 Hanna Suominen (NICTA), Natural Language Processing as Tools for Decision Support in Nursing: From Concept to Implementation
2:20–3:00 David Martinez (NICTA), Text Mining for Biosurveillance of Invasive Fungal Diseases
3:00–3:20 Coffee
3:20–4:00 Diego Molla Aliod (Macquarie University), Text Summarisation for Evidence Based Medicine
4:00–4:40 Karin Verspoor (NICTA), Text Mining for protein function prediction

James Curran

9:00–4:40 Coffee and lunch break times will align with the biomedical NLP tutorial.

Wednesday 5 December

8:50–9:00 Opening remarks (Owheo 106)

9:00–10:00 Invited talk (Owheo 106; Chair: Paul Cook)

Jennifer Hay
Using a large annotated historical corpus to study word-specific effects in sound change

10:00–10:30 Coffee

10:30–12:00 Oral presentations (Owheo 106; Chair: Ingrid Zukerman)

Angrosh M.A., Stephen Cranefield and Nigel Stanger
A Citation Centric Annotation Scheme for Scientific Articles
Michael Symonds, Guido Zuccon, Bevan Koopman, Peter Bruza and Anthony Nguyen
Semantic Judgement of Medical Concepts: Combining Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic Information with the Tensor Encoding Model
Teresa Lynn, Jennifer Foster, Mark Dras and Elaine Uí Dhonnchadha
Active Learning and the Irish Treebank

12:00–1:30 Lunch

1:30–3:00 Oral presentations (Owheo 106; Chair: Diego Mollá)

Marco Lui, Timothy Baldwin and Diana McCarthy
Unsupervised Estimation of Word Usage Similarity
Mary Gardiner and Mark Dras
Valence Shifting: Is It A Valid Task?
Minh Duc Cao and Ingrid Zukerman
Experimental Evaluation of a Lexicon- and Corpus-based Ensemble for Multi-way Sentiment Analysis

3:00–3:30 Coffee

3:30–4:30 Oral presentations (Owheo 106; Chair: Chris Brockett)

James Breen, Timothy Baldwin and Francis Bond
Extraction and Translation of Japanese Multi-word Loanwords
Yvette Graham, Timothy Baldwin, Aaron Harwood, Alistair Moffat and Justin Zobel
Measurement of Progress in Machine Translation

4:30–5:30 ALTA business meeting (Owheo 106)

7:30– Conference dinner at Filadelfio's

Thursday 6 December

9:00–10:00 Invited talk (Owheo 206; Chair: Timothy Baldwin)

Chris Brockett
Diverse Words, Shared Meanings: Statistical Machine Translation for Paraphrase, Grounding, and Intent

10:00–10:30 Coffee

10:30–12:30 Shared session with ADCS (Owheo 106; Chair: Alistair Knott)

ADCS paper Lida Ghahremanloo, James Thom and Liam Magee
An Ontology Derived from Heterogeneous Sustainability Indicator Set Documents
ADCS paper Bevan Koopman, Peter Bruza, Guido Zuccon, Michael John Lawley and Laurianne Sitbon
Graph-based Concept Weighting for Medical Information Retrieval
Abeed Sarker, Diego Molla and Cecile Paris
Towards Two-step Multi-document Summarisation for Evidence Based Medicine: A Quantitative Analysis
Alex G. Smith, Christopher X. S. Zee and Alexandra L. Uitdenbogerd
In Your Eyes: Identifying Clichés in Song Lyrics

12:30–2:00 Lunch

2:00–2:30 Oral presentation (Owheo 206; Chair: Karin Verspoor)

2:30–2:50 Poster boasters (Owheo 206; Chair: Karin Verspoor)

ALTA posters

Paul Cook and Marco Lui
langid.py for better language modelling
Robert Fromont and Jennifer Hay
LaBB-CAT: an Annotation Store
Jenny Mcdonald, Alistair Knott and Richard Zeng
Free-text input vs menu selection: exploring the difference with a tutorial dialogue system.
Jared Willett, Timothy Baldwin, David Martinez and Angus Webb
Classification of Study Region in Environmental Science Abstracts

ALTA Shared Task posters

Marco Lui
Feature Stacking for Sentence Classification in Evidence-based Medicine
Abeed Sarker
Multi-class classification of medical sentences using SVMs

2:50–3:00 Awards and final remarks (Owheo 206)

3:00–3:30 Coffee

3:30–5:00 Poster session with ADCS (Owheo 106)

The above ALTA and ALTA Shared Task posters will be presented, along with 8 posters from ADCS

7:30–21:30 Boat trip: Meet at 19:00 at wharf, 20 Fryatt St.