1. Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA)
Purpose “to promote language technology research and development in Australia and New Zealand”
Primary activities: annual workshop (ALTW), annual shared task, OzCLO

2. Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTW)
Broad-church regional NLP workshop held in early December
2012 Dunedin, New Zealand
2013 Brisbane, Australia
~20 submissions per workshop, ~40 participants
Proceedings now archived in ACL Anthology

3. ALTA Shared Task
Student-focused shared task, to raise awareness of NLP
Run annually since 2010, as part of ALTW
Modest number of participants, but numbers are growing progressively
Exemplar tasks:
2012: BioNLP sentence classification task
2013: case and punctuation restoration

4. OzCLO
Australian Computational and Linguistics Olympiad, which ALTA contributes to the organisation of
Run across Australia, targeted at high schools
Students participate in teams of 4; close to teams last year, with numbers growing each year OzCLO is run
In past few years, winning teams have been sent on to ILO