Final CFP for ALTA 2019: Short papers and abstract/presentation deadline is 3rd Oct. Presentations are extended abstracts for a work you'd share with NLP community but not as a formal publication: alta2019.alta.asn.au/call-for-papers #ALTA2019 #NLProc #Sydney #UTS

Who did OzCLO at school and went on to study linguistics at university? We're trying to calculate the impact of OzCLO

BioASQ keeps pushing the research frontier forward in biomedical semantic indexing and QA for the eight year in a row. A big thanks to Google and @Atypon for their continuous support in 2019! #BioASQ

ALTA 2019 received 42 submissions this year, with 36 being in long and short papers and 6 in presentation-only category! Congrats to the authors of accepted papers and presentations! Registration is now open: alta2019.alta.asn.au/registration and it is free for students! #ALTA2019 #NLProc

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ALTA is looking for NLP problems to be solved by undergrad or graduate students. If you have an interesting problem with data, please ALTA exec know. Australasian Language Technology Association #NLProc #ALTA2020 Diego Molla

Congratulations to round 2 winners in the highly disrupted 2020 OzCLO competition. With no international competition this year, we're arranging a special event for all the winning teams. Well done to everyone who participated in a particularly difficult competition this year

Can we assess human behaviour automatically from textual data? The ALTA 2020 shared task is now open! alta.asn.au/events/sharedt…

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We were happy to host the 8th BioASQ workshop as part of Clef! Congratulations to all the winning teams: bioasq.org/participate/ei… Special thanks to all speakers, panelists, and more than 40 participants. Stay tuned for the 9th #BioASQ Lab!

Congratulations to the authors of best long paper at ALTA 2020: Domain Adaptative Causality Encoder. Farhad Moghimifar, Gholamreza Haffari and Mahsa Baktashmotlagh Reza Haffari alta2020.alta.asn.au/files/ALTA2020… #ALTA2020 #NLProc #bestpaper

Nice way to finish ALTA! Well done Vincent! Vincent Nguyen

Excited to see the BioASQ participants successfully answering COVID-19 questions!!! Enough information was found for answering more than 70% of the 113 questions of task Synergy so far. Two more rounds are still to come! #eHealth #BigData #QuestionAnswering #CLEF2021

Congratulations to the members of the Macquarie University and ANU teams who shared this award at #BioASQ

Good luck to all participating in the 2021 ALTA shared task! Deadline: 22 September 2021. This year's topic: Automatic Grading of Evidence - 10 years later alta.asn.au/events/sharedt… Australasian Language Technology Association

Good luck to all participating in the 2021 ALTA shared task! Revised deadline: 11 October 2021. This year's topic: Automatic Grading of Evidence - 10 years later alta.asn.au/events/sharedt… Australasian Language Technology Association

The prize for the 2021 ALTA shared task has increased to $500 (AUD). Deadline: 11 October 2021. This year's topic: Automatic Grading of Evidence - 10 years later. Good luck! alta.asn.au/events/sharedt… Australasian Language Technology Association

The 2021 ALTA shared task will switch to phase 2 on 4 October, there are still a few days left to fine-tune your system. Good luck to all participants! alta.asn.au/events/sharedt… Australasian Language Technology Association #NLProc

The #Melbourne NLP Meetup is back (both in-person and via Hybrid. Come along to network with colleagues Click here to find out more meetup.com/melbnlp/events… #NLP #Meetup

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