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# ALTA 2006 — accepted papers

ALTA 2006 is the 2006 edition of the Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA), held in Sydney, Australia, November 2006 (publisher: Australasian Language Technology Association). The ACL Anthology lists 27 papers of it; our library holds 1 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

📍 Sydney, [Australia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/australia/) · 🗓 November 2006

[**27** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**1** work in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/alta/2006/#works) · [**32** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/alta/2006/#works)

## All accepted papers (27)

The most cited first; 1 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[Analysis and Prediction of User Behaviour in a Museum Environment ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U06-1022/)**Karl Grieser, Timothy Baldwin, Steven Bird
2. **[Automatic Mapping Clinical Notes to Medical Terminologies ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U06-1012/)**Jon Patrick, Yefeng Wang, Peter Budd
3. **[Classifying Speech Acts using Verbal Response Modes](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lampert-2006-classifying-speech-acts-verbal-response/)**Andrew Lampert, Robert Dale, Cécile Paris*our summary*
4. **[Computational Semantics in the Natural Language Toolkit ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U06-1006/)**Ewan Klein
5. **[Die Morphologie (f): Targeted Lexical Acquisition for Languages other than English ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U06-1011/)**Jeremy Nicholson, Timothy Baldwin, Phil Blunsom
6. **[Efficient Combinatory Categorial Grammar Parsing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U06-1003/)**Bojan Djordjevic, James R. Curran
7. **[Error correction using utterance disambiguation techniques ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U06-1018/)**Peter Vlugter, Edwin van der Ham, Alistair Knott
8. **[Evidence for Gradient Salience: What Happens with Competing Non-salient Referents during Pronoun Resolution? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U06-1014/)**Ralph L. Rose
9. **[Experiments with Sentence Classification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U06-1005/)**Anthony Khoo, Yuval Marom, David Albrecht
10. **[Extracting Patient Clinical Profiles from Case Reports ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U06-1027/)**Yitao Zhang, Jon Patrick
11. **[Improved Default Sense Selection forWord Sense Disambiguation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U06-1004/)**Tobias Hawker, Matthew Honnibal
12. **[Named Entity Recognition for Astronomy Literature ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U06-1010/)**Tara Murphy, Tara McIntosh, James R. Curran
13. **[Named Entity Recognition for Question Answering ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U06-1009/)**Diego Mollá, Menno van Zaanen, Daniel Smith
14. **[Natural Language Processing and XML Retrieval ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U06-1026/)**Alan Woodley, Xavier Tannier, Marcus Hassler et al.
15. **[Probabilities improve stress-prediction in a CFG of Hawaiian phonology ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U06-1024/)**`Ōiwi Parker Jones
16. **[Pseudo Relevance Feedback Using Named Entities for Question Answering ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U06-1013/)**Luiz Augusto Pizzato, Diego Mollá, Cécile Paris
17. **[Questions require an answer: A deductive perspective on questions and answers ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U06-1016/)**Willemijn Vermaat
18. **[Robust multimodal understanding for interactive systems ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U06-1001/)**Michael Johnston
19. **[This Phrase-Based SMT System is Out of Order: Generalised Word Reordering in Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U06-1021/)**Simon Zwarts, Mark Dras
20. **[Towards Cognitive Optimisation of a Search Engine Interface ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U06-1025/)**Kenneth Treharne, Darius Pfitzner, David M W Powers
21. **[Towards the Evaluation of Referring Expression Generation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U06-1017/)**Jette Viethen, Robert Dale
22. **[User modelling for language technologists ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U06-1002/)**Judy Kay
23. **[Using Dependency-Based Features to Take the `Para-farce' out of Paraphrase ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U06-1019/)**Stephen Wan, Mark Dras, Robert Dale et al.
24. **[Using Dialogue Acts to Suggest Responses in Support Services via Instant Messaging ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U06-1023/)**Edward Ivanovic
25. **[Verb Sense Disambiguation Using Selectional Preferences Extracted with a State-of-the-art Semantic Role Labeler ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U06-1020/)**Patrick Ye, Timothy Baldwin

[See all 27 papers in ALTA 2006 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/alta/2006/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (1)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. **[Classifying Speech Acts using Verbal Response Modes](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lampert-2006-classifying-speech-acts-verbal-response/) [Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/alta/)**Andrew Lampert, Robert Dale, Cécile Paris*2006 · 32 citations*

## Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

[Speech act theory (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/)

## Top authors

Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works.

[🧑‍🔬**Cecile Paris**1 work here · 32 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cecile-paris/) · [🧑‍🔬**Robert Dale**1 work here · 32 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/robert-dale/)

## Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

[🏛️**Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation** Canberra · Australia 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/government/commonwealth-scientific-and-industrial-research-organisation/) · [🎓**Macquarie University** Sydney · Australia 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/macquarie-university/)

Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library.

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