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| "text": "Workshop Co-Chairs", |
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| "text": "\u2022 Ben Hachey (The University of Sydney -Abbrevi8 Pty Ltd)", |
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| "text": "\u2022 Kellie Webster (The University of Sydney)", |
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| "text": "\u2022 Dominique Estival (Western Sydney University)", |
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| "text": "This volume contains the papers accepted for presentation at the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop (ALTA) 2015, held at Western Sydney University in Parramatta, Australia on 8-9 December 2015.", |
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| "text": "\u2022 bring together the Language Technology (LT) community in the Australasian region and encourage interactions and collaboration; \u2022 foster interaction between academic and industrial researchers, to encourage dissemination of research results; \u2022 provide a forum for students and young researchers to present their research;", |
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| "text": "\u2022 facilitate the discussion of new and ongoing research and projects;", |
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| "text": "\u2022 increase visibility of LT research in Australasia and overseas and encourage interactions with the wider international LT community.", |
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| "text": "This year's ALTA Workshop presents 16 peer-reviewed papers, including 12 long papers and 4 short papers. We received a total of 20 submissions for long and short papers. Each paper was reviewed by three members of the program committee. Great care was taken to avoid all conflicts of interest.", |
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| "text": "ALTA 2015 introduces an experimental presentations track. This aims to encourage broader participation and facilitate local socialisation of international results, including work in progress and work submitted or published elsewhere. Presentations were lightly reviewed by the ALTA executive committee to ensure relevance, with 4 of 5 submissions included in the programme.", |
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| "text": "ALTA 2015 continues the tradition of including a shared task, this year addressing the identification of French cognates in English text. Participation is summarised in an overview paper by organisers Laurianne Sitbon, Diego Moll\u00e1 and Haoxing Wang. Participants were invited to submit a system description paper, which are included in this volume without review.", |
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| "text": "We would like to thank, in no particular order: all of the authors who submitted papers; the programme committee for their valuable time and effort; the local organisers Dominique Estival and Caroline Jones for handling physical logistics and coordination with the Confluence 2015 programme; our keynote speaker Mark Johnson for agreeing to share his perspective on the state of the field; and the panelists Tim Baldwin [Moderator], Grace Chung, David Hawking, Maria Milosavljevic and Doug Oard for agreeing to share their experience and insights. We would like to acknowledge the constant support and advice of the ALTA Executive Committee, and the valuable guidance of previous co-chairs.", |
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| "text": "Finally, we gratefully recognise our sponsors: Data61/CSIRO, Capital Markets CRC, Google, Hugo/Abbrevi8 and The University of Sydney. Most importantly, their generous support enabled us to offer travel subsidies to all students presenting at ALTA. Their support also funded the conference dinner and student paper awards. ", |
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| "title": "Long paper: Daniel Frost and Shunichi Ishihara Likelihood Ratio-based Forensic Voice Comparison on L2 speakers: A Case of Hong Kong native male production of English vowels 10:10-10:30 Long paper: Kairit Sirts and Mark Johnson Do POS Tags Help to Learn Better Morphological Segmentations", |
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