{ "paper_id": "U06-1000", "header": { "generated_with": "S2ORC 1.0.0", "date_generated": "2023-01-19T03:09:30.703794Z" }, "title": "", "authors": [], "year": "", "venue": null, "identifiers": {}, "abstract": "", "pdf_parse": { "paper_id": "U06-1000", "_pdf_hash": "", "abstract": [], "body_text": [ { "text": "This volume contains the papers accepted for presentation at the Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTW) 2006, held at the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, on November 30 -December 1, 2006. This is the fourth annual installment of the workshop in its most-recent incarnation, and the continuation of an annual workshop series that has existed under various guises since the early 90s.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Preface", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "The goals of the workshop are:", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Preface", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "\u2022 to bring together the growing Language Technology (LT) community in Australia and New Zealand and encourage interactions;", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Preface", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "\u2022 to foster interaction between academic and industrial researchers;", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Preface", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "\u2022 to encourage dissemination of research results for new and ongoing projects; and", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Preface", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "\u2022 to increase the visibility of LT research in Australia and New Zealand.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Preface", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "This year's Australasian Language Technology Workshop includes regular talks as well as poster presentations and student posters. Of the 36 papers submitted, 19 papers were selected by the program committee for publication and appear in these proceedings. Of these, 13 are oral presentations papers and 6 are poster presentations. Additionally, we have included 6 student posters to encourage feedback on early results. Each full-length submission was independently peer reviewed by at least two members of the international program committee, in accordance with the DEST requirements for E1 conference publications.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Preface", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "Program Chairs:", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Committees", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "Lawrence Cavedon (National ICT Australia and RMIT University, Australia) Ingrid Zukerman (Monash University)", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Committees", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "Local Chair:", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Committees", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "Rolf Schwitter (Macquarie University)", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Committees", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "Program Committee:", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Committees", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "Our thanks to the following Program Committee members for their efforts in the reviewing process. ", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Committees", "sec_num": null } ], "back_matter": [ { "text": "We would like to thank all the authors who submitted papers, as well as the members of the program committee for the time and effort they contributed in reviewing the papers. Our thanks also go to local organizer Rolf Schwitter, to Jiawen Rong for installing and configuring the submission management system, and to members of the ALTA executive for their support in organizing the workshop. This year, ALTW is held as part of the HCSNet (ARC Network in Human Communication Science) SummerFest. We thank HCSNet for its invaluable financial and organisational support, including organising the venue and refreshments, printing the proceedings, handling registration, and particularly for providing travel funds to all presenters, including the invited international speaker: Michael Johnston (AT&T Labs Research). A special thanks goes to Kym Buckley of HCSNet for her immense effort in managing the organisation of the HCSNet events, including ALTW.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "acknowledgement", "sec_num": null } ], "bib_entries": {}, "ref_entries": { "TABREF1": { "type_str": "table", "content": "
Thursday November 30 2006
\u2022 3.30pm -4.00pm: Coffee break
\u2022 4.00pm -5.30pm: Session 4
o HCSNet Keynote Presentation:Edwin van der
Ham, and Alistair Knott Robust multimodal understanding for interactive systems
o Classifying speech acts using verbal response modes, Andrew Lampert, Robert Dale, and Michael Johnston (AT&T Labs Research)
Cecile Paris \u2022 5.30pm-6.00pm: Drinks (courtesy of HCSNet)
\u2022 6.00pm: Musical Recital (courtesy of HCSNet)
Friday December 1 2006
\u2022 9.00am-10.00am:
o HCSNet Keynote Presentation:
Human-computer interaction based on acoustic signals, muscle movements, and
brainwaves, Tanja Schultz (Carnegie Mellon University)
\u2022 10.15am-10.45am: Session 5
Student posters
o Analysis and prediction of user behaviour in a museum environment, Karl Grieser,
Tim Baldwin and Steven Bird
o Using dialogue acts to suggest responses in support services via Instant Messaging, Edward Ivanovic \u2022 3.30pm -4.00pm: Coffee break
o Probabilities improve stress-prediction in a CFG of Hawaiian phonology, 'Oiwi \u2022 4.00pm -4.45pm: Session 8
Parker Jones
o Towards cognitive optimisation of a search engine interface, Kenneth Treharne,
Darius Pfitzner and David M. W. Powers
o Natural language processing and XML retrieval, Alan Woodley, Xavier Tannier,
Marcus Hassler, and Shlomo Geva
o Extracting patient clinical profiles from case reports, Yitao Zhang and Jon Patrick
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", "num": null, "html": null, "text": "Invited PresentationsRobust Multimodal Understanding for Interactive Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Michael Johnston User Modelling for Language Technologists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Automatic mapping clinical notes to medical terminologies, Jon Patrick, Yefeng Wang and Peter Budd o Pseudo relevance feedback using named entities for Question Answering, Luiz Augusto Pizzato, Diego Molla, and Cecile Paris o Web readability and Computer-Assisted Language Learning, Alexandra L. Uitdenbogerd o Questions require an answer: A deductive perspective on questions and answers, Willemijn Vermaat o Towards the evaluation of referring expression generation, Jette Viethen and Robert Dale Efficient combinatory categorial grammar parsing, Bojan Djordjevic and James R. Curran Named entity recognition for astronomy literature, Tara Murphy, Tara McIntosh, and James R. Curran o This phrase-based SMT system is out of order: Generalised word reordering in machine translation, Simon Zwarts and Mark Dras Using dependency-based features to take the \"para-farce\" out of paraphrase, Stephen Wan, Mark Dras, Robert Dale, and Cecile Paris" } } } }