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Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA). Purpose “to promote language technology research and development in Australia and New Zealand” Primary activities: annual workshop (ALTW), annual shared task, OzCLO. Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTW).
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Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA) • Purpose “to promote language technology research and development in Australia and New Zealand” • Primary activities: annual workshop (ALTW), annual shared task, OzCLO
Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTW) • Broad-church regional NLP workshop held in early December • 2012 Dunedin, New Zealand • 2013 Brisbane, Australia • ~20 submissions per workshop, ~40 participants • Proceedings now archived in ACL Anthology
ALTA Shared Task • Student-focused shared task, to raise awareness of NLP • Run annually since 2010, as part of ALTW • Modest number of participants, but numbers are growing progressively • Exemplar tasks: • 2012: BioNLP sentence classification task • 2013: case and punctuation restoration
OzCLO • Australian Computational and Linguistics Olympiad, which ALTA contributes to the organisation of • Run across Australia, targeted at high schools • Students participate in teams of 4; close to 1000 teams last year, with numbers growing each year OzCLO is run • In past few years, winning teams have been sent on to ILO