Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop

摘要: This volume contains the papers accepted for presentation at this year’s Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTA2008), held at the CSIRO Tasmanian ICT Centre, Hobart, Australia, on December 8-10, 2008. This is the sixth annual installment of the workshop since the formation of ALTA, and the continuation of an annual workshop series that existed under various guises throughout the 1990s.The goals of the workshop are:• to bring together the Language Technology (LT) community in Australasia;• to encourage interactions with the international LT community;• to foster interaction between academic and industrial researchers;• to encourage dissemination and peer evaluation of research results;• to provide a forum for the discussion of new and ongoing research and projects;• to allow the broader AI community to become aware of local LT research;• to increase visibility of LT research in Australia, New Zealand and overseas;• to promote, support and encourage the participation of students in LT research.