Centre for Language Technology
News Archive
1/8/11 François Lareau. "Grammemes", MTT'11, 8-9 September, Barcelona, Spain.
1/8/11 François Lareau, Mark Dras, Robert Dale. "Detecting Interesting Event Sequences for Sports Reporting', poster at ENLG'11, 28-30 September, Nancy, France.
8/7/11 Mark Johnson is co-program chair of EMNLP 2011, 27-31 July 2011, Edinburgh, Scotland.
1/6/11 Benjamin Boerschingen, Bevan K. Jones, Mark Johnson, "Reducing Grounded Learning Tasks to Grammatical Inference", EMNLP 2011, 27-31 July, Edinburgh, Scotland.
1/6/11 Sze-Meng Jojo Wong, Mark Dras, "Exploiting Parse Structures for Native Language Identification", EMNLP 2011, 27-31 July, Edinburgh, Scotland.
1/6/11 Susan Howlett, Mark Dras, "Clause Restructuring for SMT Not Absolutely Helpful". ACL 2011, June 19-24, Portland, OR, USA.
31/5/11 Dominique Estival, Robert Dale, Jette Viethen et al. "Building an audio-visual corpus of Australian English: large corpus collection with an economical portable and replicable black box". Interspeech 2011, 28-31 August 2011, Florence, Italy.
31/5/11 Nina Dethlefs, Heriberto Cuayáhuitl and Jette Viethen, "Optimising Natural Language Generation Decision Making for Situated Dialogue". SIGdial 2011, 17-18 June 2011, Portland, OR, USA.
30/5/11 J Viethen, R Dale and M Guhe, "Generating Subsequent Reference in Shared Visual Scenes: Computation vs Copying". Accepted in EMNLP 2011, 27th-31st July 2011, Edinburgh, Scotland.
30/5/11 D Barker-Plummer, R Cox and R Dale, "Student Translations of Natural Language into Logic: The Grade Grinder Translation Corpus Release 1.0". Accepted in EDM 2011, 6th-8th July 2011, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
30/5/11 D Barker-Plummer, R Dale and R Cox, "Impedance Effects of Visual and Spatial Content upon Language-to-Logic Translation Accuracy. Accepted in COGSCI 2011, 20th-23rd July 2011, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
30/5/11 Jette Viethen has just graduated from her PhD. Congratulations!
30/5/11 Abeed Sarker and Diego Molla had a paper accepted at the Louhi 2011 workshop (Bled, Slovenia, July 6) with title "Towards Automatic Grading of Evidence".
20/5/11 Rolf Schwitter has a paper accepted at PACLING 2011 (Kuala Lumpur, July 17-19) with title "Specifying Events and their Effects in Controlled Natural Language".
19/4/11 Robert Dale is co-organising the Shared Task in Text Correction (HOO).
6/4/11 Invited presentation by Phil Blunsom (University of Oxford) at the 11 April LTG meeting.
21/3/11 Simon Zwarts and Mark Johnson have a paper accepted in ACL2011, Portland, Oregon 19-24 June.
5/4/11 We have three post-doc positions open. Applications close 1 May. For details see job titles 0166J and 0166P at Macquarie University jobs website.
26/01/11 AusTalk, a national initiative to collect a speech corpus from 1,000 Australian English speakers was launched.
13/12/10 Jette Viethen and Robert Dale's paper tied as the best paper in ALTA 2010, Melbourne 9-10 December.
13/12/10 Abeed Sarker co-authored the best paper in DICTA 2010, Sydney 1-3 December.
24/11/10 Abeed Sarker and Diego Molla-Aliod have a short paper accepted at ADCS 2010, Melbourne 10 October 2010.
10/11/10 Mark Johnson was awarded with two ARC Discovery grants to begin in 2011.
18/10/10 Diego Molla, Susan Howlett and Abeed Sarker are contributing to the organisation of the LT programming competition.
18/10/10 The following CLT members have papers accepted in ALTA 2010: Susan Howlett, Mark Cras, Diego Molla, Jojo Wong, Jette Viethen, Robert Dale, Simon Zwarts, and Mark Johnson, for a total of 5 papers.
20/9/10 Mark Johnson gave a course in the 2010 Machine Learning Summer School, Canberra, 27 Sept to 6 Oct.
6/9/10 Rolf Schwitter is presenting a tutorial on Controlled Natural Language Processing at the CNL 2010 Workshop on Marettimo Island, Sicily (Italy) on Monday 13th September 2010 and give an invited talk at the Institute of Computational Linguistics of the University of Zuerich on Monday 20st September 2010.
7/8/10 Welcome to Nina Dethlefs, a PhD student from University of Bremen (John Bateman) who is visiting us between August and October.
4/8/10 Vanessa Long successfully completed her PhD under supervision by Steve Cassidy and Robert Dale. Congratulations!
4/6/10 Simon Zwarts, Mark Johnson, Robert Dale, "Detecting Speech Repairs Incrementally Using a Noisy Channel Approach", Coling 2010, Bejing, 23-27 August.
1/6/10 Mark Johnson co-authored 2 papers at COLING 2010, Beijing, 23-27 August.
1/6/10 Rolf Schwitter has the following COLING 2010 poster: "Controlled Natural Languages for Knowledge Representation", Beijing, 23-27 August.
1/6/10 Mark Johnson co-authored 2 papers at ACL 2010, Uppsala, 11-16 July.
1/6/10 Mark Johnson co-authored the following 3 papers at NAACL 2010: "Automatic Domain Adaptation for Parsing", "Learning Words and Their Meanings from Unsegmented Child-directed Speech", "Reranking the Berkeley and Brown Parsers", NAACL, 1-6 June.
1/6/10 Diego Molla received a Macquarie University Research Development Grant for the two-year project "Generation and Evaluation of Clinical Evidence-based Summaries on Demand".
3/5/10 Welcome to Teresa Lynn, who has joined CLT for a short-term project with Robert Dale.
28/4/10 Welcome to Abeed Sarker, who has joined CLT with a PhD scholarship under the supervision of Diego Molla.
22/2/10 Ben Hachey is co-organising the NAACL 2010 workshop "Computational Linguistics in a World of Social Media", Los Angeles, 5-6 June.
27/1/10 Andrew Lampert, Robert Dale and Cecile Paris have a paper accepted at NAACL 2010, Los Angeles, 2-4 June.
15/4/10 There's a PhD scholarship attached to an Australian Research Council-funded project on natural language generation for Aboriginal languages, closing date is 30 April. For further details contact Mark Dras.
15/4/10 Stephen Choularton has completed his PhD thesis with title "Early Stage Detection of Speech Recognition Errors" under the supervision of Robert Dale - congratulations!
29/2/10 The postdoc position on natural language generation and Aboriginal languages is currently closed.
29/2/10 There is an open postdoc position, funded by ARC Discovery grant DP1095443, on natural language generation and Aboriginal languages. Deadline 21 March. See reference #22194 at http://www.mq.edu.au/jobs/.
22/2/10 Jette Viethen, Simon Zwarts and Robert Dale have a paper accepted at LREC2010, Malta, 17-23 May, with title "Dialogue Reference in a Visual Domain".
26/1/10 Mark Johnson, previously of Brown University, has joined Macquarie’s Centre for Language Technology as of the beginning of 2010. Drop by to a Monday morning group meeting and say hello!
25/1/10 Rolf Schwitter co-authored the manifesto "On Controlled Natural Languages: Properties and Prospects.
6/12/09 CLT received $60K in competitive Research Infrastructure Block Grant funding to buy a cluster of machines for computationally intensive experimental research.
13/11/09 Diego Molla has a paper accepted in HIKM 2010, Brisbane, 21 January 2010, with the title "A Study on the Use of Search Engines for Answering Clinical Questions".
28/10/09 Ben Hachey and Jean-Yves Delort have a paper accepted in the MINUCS 2009 workshop, Venice, 9 December 2009, with title "Automatic Financial Surveillance".
28/10/09 The following members of CLT have a paper accepted at ALTA 2009, Sydney, 3-4 December 2009: Sze-Meng Jojo Wong, Mark Dras, Colin White, Rolf Schwitter, Ben Hachey, with a total of 4 papers.
28/10/09 Mark Dras and Robert Dale have been awarded Australian Research Council funding for a 3-year Discovery grant with title "Natural Language Generation for Aboriginal Languages".
27/10/09 The CLT webpage has been revamped. Feeback welcome!
25/08/09 The CLT is seeking applicants for Australian Research Council Future Fellowships in Computer Science. For further details and contact information see the Department of Computing research pages.
10/08/09 Luiz Pizzato's final corrections to his PhD thesis have been approved. Congratulations to him.
10/08/09 Rolf Schwitter has a paper accepted at a special issue of the Applied Artificial Intelligence journal: "Creating and Querying Formal Ontologies via Controlled Natural Language".
05/08/09 Susanna Nillson from Linkoping University of Sweden is visiting the CLT for a few weeks. She'll work on user-centered evaluation and development of augmented reality systems. You can find her in E6A340.
18/06/09 CSIRO and Macquarie University were selected as finalists in the Elsevier Grand Challenge. Congratulations to the CSIRO team (Stephen Wan, Cecile Paris, Julien Blondeau, Michael Muthukrishna, Melody Wang, David Clifford) and to the CLT team (Robert Dale and Ilya Anismoff).
15/06/09 Mary Gardiner and Suzy Howlett won the Best Reviewer title and Andrew Lampert won the best abstract at the Macquarie Computing Mini-Conference MCMC09.
15/06/09 A Rafalovitch and R Dale have a paper accepted at the SUMMIT XII, 26th-29th August 2009, Ottawa, Canada.
15/06/09 S Wan, C Paris, M Muthukrishna and R Dale have a paper accepted at NLPIR4DL, 7th August 2009, Singapore.
15/06/09 A Koller, K Striegnitz, D Byron, J Cassell, R Dale, S Dalzel-Job, J Oberlander and J Moore have a paper accepted at ACL/IJCNLP, 2nd-7th August 2009, Singapore.
3/06/09 Three papers from members of CLT were accepted at EMNLP 2009, 6-7 August, Singapore, by: Andrew Lampert with Cécile Paris and Robert Dale, Matthew Honnibal with James Curran, and Ben Hachey.
15/06/09 J Viethen and R Dale have a paper accepted at PRE2009, 29th July, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
15/06/09 D Barker-Plummer, R Cox and R Dale have a paper accepted at EDM09, 1st-3rd July 2009, Cordoba, Spain.
15/06/09 S Wan, C Paris and R Dale have a paper accepted at JCDL2009, 15th-19th June 2009, Austin, Texas.
9/06/09 The following three members of CLT will deliver a talk at the Macquarie Computing Mini-Conference MCMC09: Andrew Lampert, Mary Gardiner and Jette Viethen. Macquarie University, 9th June.
5/06/09 A warm welcome to Shomir Wilson from the University of Maryland, who will visit us from 5th June until early August.
5/06/09 A warm welcome to Michael Haugh from Griffith University, who will visit us for three weeks from 8th June.
29/05/09 Simon Zwarts was awarded a US$30k grant from Microsoft Asia to work on machine translation between English and Asian Languages (Tamil and Korean).
29/05/09 Tara McIntosh, from the University of Sydney, will give a HAIL seminar on Tuesday 2 June 2009.
22/05/09 Diego Mollá will chair the HCSNet hands-on workshop on mashups at Macquarie University, 27-28 July 2009.
9/04/09 Rolf Schwitter had a paper accepted at TABLEAUX2009, 6-10 July 2009, Oslo, Norway.
9/04/09 A warm welcome to Rigardt Pretorius from University of South Africa, who is visting us for a short period.
3/03/09 Diego Mollá will chair the 2009 HCSNet Workshop on Next-Generation Search Technology, NGS09, 16-17 April 2009, Blackheath, NSW.
2/02/09 Congratulations to Robert Dale and Jette Viethen for their accepted paper Referring Expression Generation through Attribute-Based Heuristics at (ENLG 2009), 30-31 March 2009, Athens, Greece.
13/01/09 Rolf Schwitter had two papers accepted at CNL 2009, 8-10 June 2009, Marettimo Island, Italy.
12/01/09 A warm welcome to the following Vacation Scholarship holders, who will work in CLT projects during January and February 2009:
- Le Than Duc; supervisor: Rolf Schwitter; project: Feedback for Mates.
- Jianwei Lu; supervisor: Diego Molla; project: Question Answering.
- Benjamin Munro; supervisor: Robert Dale; project: Corpus-based Correction of OCR-introduced Spelling Errors.
11/10/08 A warm welcome to Gabor Cselle, , who is visiting CLT and CSIRO and delivered the HAIL seminar "The Future of Email" on 10 October 2008.
11/10/08 A warm welcome to Markus Guhe, from the University of Edinburgh, who is visiting CLT under the HCSNet International Visiting Speaker Programme, October/November 2009.
11/10/08 Congratulations to Andrew Lampert, Robert Dale, Cecile Paris, Jette Viethen, Rolf Schwitter, Simon Zwarts and Mark Dras for having their papers accepted at ALTA 2008, 8-10 December 2008, Hobart.
11/10/08 Congratulations to Brett Powley, Robert Dale and Ilya Anisimoff for having their paper accepted at Document Recognition and Retrieval XVI (Part of the IS&T/SPIE International Symposium on Electronic Imaging) January 21-22 2009, San Jose, California, USA.
11/10/08 Congratulations to Stephen Wan, Robert Dale, Mark Dras and Cecile Paris for having their paper accepted at EMNLP08, Hawaii, October 25-27, 2008.
10/10/08 A warm welcome to Juana María Ruíz-Martínez, from the University of Murcia (Spain), who is visiting us until December 2008.
01/10/08 A warm welcome to Sebastian Germesin (DFKI GmbH) who is visiting us on Wed 01 Oct 2008.
19/08/08 Congratulations to Rolf Schwitter for having his paper accepted at AI-08.
14/08/08 Congratulations to Rolf Schwitter for having his paper accepted at PRICAI-08.
16/07/08 Download AFNER 1.01, the Named Entity recogniser of AnswerFinder, in the new AFNER SourceForge project website.
04/07/08 Congratulations to Andrew Lampert, Robert Dale and Cécile Paris for having their paper accepted at the AAAI workshop on Enhanced Messaging.
02/07/08 Congratulations to Rolf Schwitter for having his paper accepted at KROW 08.
11/06/08 Congratulations to Luiz Pizzato and Diego Mollá for having their paper accepted at IR4QA 2008.
11/06/08 Thank you to all participants to the Postgraduate conference that took place on 10 June 2008.
05/06/08 Congratulations to Stephen Wan for having his paper accepted at ACL 2008.
05/06/08 Congratulations to Pawel Mazur, Robert Dale, Mark Dras and Simon Zwarts for having their papers accepted at COLING 2008.
04/06/08 Dan Flickinger (Stanford University) will give a talk at an extraordinary LTG seminar on Wednesday 11 June 2008, 11:30-12:30.
04/06/08 A warm welcome to Mark Johnson (Brown University), who is visiting us on Friday 6 June 2008.
04/06/08 A warm welcome to Dan Flickinger (Stanford University), who is visiting us on the week 9-13 June 2008.
16/05/07 If you are doing a Honours unit in Macquarie University check this list of possible Honours projects.
2/10/06 COLING/ACL 2006 was held in Sydney, Australia, from 17th-21st July 2006.
2/10/06 A number of projects are available to undergraduate students who seek vacation scholarships for the Summer of 2007.
2/10/06 Dr. Norbert Fuchs, University of Zurich, will give an Computing Seminar with the title Reasoning in (Controlled) Natural Language on November 10, 2006.
12/07/06 ALTW2006 will be held as part of the HCSNet SummerFest on November 30 and December 1, 2006.
17/07/06 Prof. Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh, will give an LTG Seminar talk with the title Introduction to CCG-based Wide Coverage Parsing on July 26, 2006.
12/07/06 COLING/ACL 2006 will be held in Sydney, Australia, from 17th-21st July 2006.
10/01/05 The CLT has recently co-organised the Tenth Australian International Conference on Speech Science & Technology, Macquarie University, 8th-10th December 2004.
10/01/04 The CLT has recently organised and hosted the Australasian Language Technology Summer School, Macquarie University, 4-7 December 2004.
25/02/04 There is a new webpage of support for PhD students, built by PhD students.
1/06/03 Join ALTA, the new Australasian Language Technology Association. The ALTA mailing lists replace the NLANZ-L mailing list.
1/01/03 The Who's Who in Computational Linguistics in Australasia is now available.