The Australasian Language Technology Association promotes language technology research and development in Australia and New Zealand.
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CFP: ALTA 2025 @ USyd (Nov 26–28)
🔔 Deadline extended to 17 Sep (AoE)
🧾 Non-archival submissions accepted (published/WIP) — deadline 7 Oct
CFP: alta2025.alta.asn.au/calls/p…
A good reason to visit Sydney! #ALTA2025 #NLP #CFP
🧠 ALTA Online Seminar – Thu 1 Oct, 9am AEST
Muhammad Umair Haider (U Kentucky)
- Beyond Discrete Neuronal Attribution – polysemanticity in LLMs
Hao Yang (Monash):
- Safety Beyond Text – risks in Large Audio Language Models
Zoom: tinyurl.com/4kytf543
#NLProc #LLM
ALTA 2026 deadline has been extended one week to 18 Sep AOE! 🚀🚀🚀🚀
For detail:
alta2026.alta.asn.au/#:~:tex…
Join the ALTA Online Monthly Seminar Series on Thursday 3 Sept, 9AM AEST 🎙️
🧠 Pranav Bhandari (@UWA) — Understanding & Steering Personality Traits in LLMs
👁️ Jeonghwan Kim (@IllinoisCS) — Visual Grounding for Multimodal Foundation Models
Zoom: tinyurl.com/4kytf543
🚀 CALLING ALL NLP & DATA SCIENCE STUDENTS! 🚀
Ready to decode sarcasm in Aussie and British English? 🇦🇺🇬🇧
Shared task link:
alta.asn.au/events/sharedtas…
Join the next ALTA Seminar on 6 Aug, 9:00 am AEST!
Anne Wu @ Cornell: Training Natively Interactive Models
Ming-Bin Chen @ UniMelb: Computational Approaches to Deliberative Conversation Facilitation
Link: tinyurl.com/4kytf543"
📣 ALTA Online Seminar — Thu 2 July, 9AM AEST
Zoom: tinyurl.com/4kytf543
🎙 Kaiser Sun (JHU): bridging the modality gap in multimodal LLMs
🎙 Devin Hua (UNSW): SOCIA-EVO automated simulator construction
All welcome! 📬 groups.google.com/g/alta-sem… #NLP #LLMs
ALTA second Australia X North America Seminar is coming up! Featuring:
Abid Ali
“Where text meets vision: Multimodal News Summarization”
Dr. Denis Peskoff
“Laws and Large Languauge Models”
📅 Thursday 4 June
🕘 9:00 AM AEST
📍 Online via Zoom: tinyurl.com/4kytf543
We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the 24th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA’26), to be held in Melbourne, Australia, 30 Nov - 2 Dec 2026.
Check the deadlines below!!
lnkd.in/gmRP9Dcv
ALTA May GenAI/LLM seminar features two talks:
- Anudeex Shetty, UniMelb
“From Monolithic to Pluralistic Alignment in LLMs”
- Yao Dou, Georgia Tech
“Scalable and Structured Evaluation of Large Language Models”
📅 Thursday 7 May
🕘 9:00 AM AEST
📍 tinyurl.com/4kytf543
We’re pleased to share #Interspeech2026 — coming to Sydney from 27 Sep to 1 Oct 2026. Theme: Speaking Together.
See the official conference website for details.
#SpeechTechnology #SpeechScience #NLP #LanguageTechnology
Australasian Language Technology Association retweeted
Our paper on generating bilingual example sentences with LLMs got best paper award @altanlp !
arxiv.org/abs/2410.03182
We work with French / Indonesian / Tetun, find that annotators don't agree about what's a "good example", but that LLMs can align with a specific annotator.
Milindi Kodikara from @RMIT is presenting the long paper today at #ALTA2024 titled "Lesser the Shots, Higher the #Hallucinations: Exploration of Genetic Information Extraction using Generative Large Language Models", evaluating #LLMs on extraction of genetic information.
#NLP
ALT Milindi Kodikara from RMIT presenting at #ALTA2024
In our session at #ALTA2024 today on ethical considerations and social media analysis, Daniel Cabrera Lozoya from @UniMelb is presenting his paper titled "Truth in the Noise: Unveiling Authentic #Dementia Self-Disclosure Statements in Social Media with #LLMs
#NLP
ALT Daniel Cabrera Lozoya from university of Melbourne presenting at #ALTa2024
Minkang Liu from @USMOfficial1969 is presenting his paper at #ALTA2024 titled "#GenABSA-Vec: Generative Aspect-Based Sentiment Feature #Vectorization for Document-Level #Sentiment Classification".
#NLP #classification
ALT Minkang Liu from Universiti Sains Malaysia presenting at #ALTA2024
In the #ALTA2024 session on advances in #NLP models and techniques today, @EmmanueleChers1 of @HongKongPolyU presents joint work with Carina Kauf of @MIT on comparing plausibility estimates in #LLMs
ALT Emmanuele Chersoni of Hong Kong Polytechnic University presenting at #ALTA2024
Michael Lambropoulos from the @Sydney_Uni is presenting his paper titled "Towards an Implementation of Rhetorical Structure Theory in Discourse Coherence Modelling" online.
#ALTA2024 #NLP #NLProcessing
ALT Michael Lambropoulos from the University of Sydney presenting his paper on discourse coherence.
Good morning from #ALTA2024 here at the gorgeous Birch building at @ourANU 🌟
This morning's #keynote is Kyla Quinn, who is the Technical Director of Data and Analytic Services Branch at the @ASDGovAu , presented on "#LLMs are great, but ..." - we need a better focus on #data.
ALT Kyla Quinn keynoting #ALTA2024
Australasian Language Technology Association retweeted
Absolutely enjoyed the @altanlp keynote by @StevenBird , as also the rest of day 1. Steven’s talk validates some of my research ambitions, but really makes me question a lot in contemporary NLP. What a fantastic curation of #NLProc research and perspectives by the organizers!!
