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# ALTA 2017 — accepted papers

ALTA 2017 is the 2017 edition of the Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA), held in Brisbane, Australia, December 2017 (publisher: Australasian Language Technology Association). The ACL Anthology lists 16 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.

[**16** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**1** work in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/alta/2017/#works) · [**11** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/alta/2017/#works)**Brisbane, Australia** where it was held**December 2017** when

## All accepted papers (16)

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

1. **[A Comparative Study of Two Statistical Modelling Approaches for Estimating Multivariate Likelihood Ratios in Forensic Voice Comparison ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U17-1007/)**Shunichi Ishihara
2. **[A Hybrid Model for Quality Assessment of Wikipedia Articles ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U17-1005/)**Aili Shen, Jianzhong Qi, Timothy Baldwin
3. **[Automatic Negation and Speculation Detection in Veterinary Clinical Text](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cheng-2017-automatic-negation-speculation-detection-veterinary/)**Katherine Cheng, Timothy Baldwin, Karin Verspoor*our summary*
4. **[From Word Segmentation to POS Tagging for Vietnamese ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U17-1013/)**Dat Quoc Nguyen, Thanh Vu, Dai Quoc Nguyen et al.
5. **[Improving End-to-End Memory Networks with Unified Weight Tying ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U17-1002/)**Fei Liu, Trevor Cohn, Timothy Baldwin
6. **[Incremental Knowledge Acquisition Approach for Information Extraction on both Semi-Structured and Unstructured Text from the Open Domain Web ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U17-1010/)**Maria Myung Hee Kim
7. **[Joint Sentence-Document Model for Manifesto Text Analysis ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U17-1003/)**Shivashankar Subramanian, Trevor Cohn, Timothy Baldwin et al.
8. **[Leveraging Linguistic Resources for Improving Neural Text Classification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U17-1004/)**Ming Liu, Gholamreza Haffari, Wray Buntine et al.
9. **[Medication and Adverse Event Extraction from Noisy Text ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U17-1009/)**Xiang Dai, Sarvnaz Karimi, Cecile Paris
10. **[OCR Post-Processing Text Correction using Simulated Annealing (OPTeCA) ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U17-1015/)**Gitansh Khirbat
11. **[On Extending Neural Networks with Loss Ensembles for Text Classification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U17-1011/)**Hamideh Hajiabadi, Diego Molla-Aliod, Reza Monsefi
12. **[Overview of the 2017 ALTA Shared Task: Correcting OCR Errors ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U17-1014/)**Diego Mollá-Aliod, Steve Cassidy
13. **[Phonemic Transcription of Low-Resource Tonal Languages ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U17-1006/)**Oliver Adams, Trevor Cohn, Graham Neubig et al.
14. **[Stock Market Prediction with Deep Learning: A Character-based Neural Language Model for Event-based Trading ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U17-1001/)**Leonardo dos Santos Pinheiro, Mark Dras
15. **[SuperOCR for ALTA 2017 Shared Task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U17-1016/)**Yufei Wang
16. **[Towards the Use of Deep Reinforcement Learning with Global Policy for Query-based Extractive Summarisation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U17-1012/)**Diego Mollá-Aliod

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

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

1. **[Automatic Negation and Speculation Detection in Veterinary Clinical Text](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cheng-2017-automatic-negation-speculation-detection-veterinary/) [Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/alta/)**Katherine Cheng, Timothy Baldwin, Karin Verspoor*2017 · 11 citations*

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/) · [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.

[🧑‍🔬**Karin Verspoor**1 work here · 11 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/karin-verspoor/) · [🧑‍🔬**Timothy Baldwin**1 work here · 11 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/timothy-baldwin/)

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

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