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# ALTA 2018 — accepted papers

ALTA 2018 is the 2018 edition of the Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA), held in Dunedin, New Zealand, December 2018 (publisher: Australasian Language Technology Association). The ACL Anthology lists 13 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.

[**13** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**1** work in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/alta/2018/#works) · [**3** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/alta/2018/#works)**Dunedin, New Zealand** where it was held**December 2018** when

## All accepted papers (13)

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

1. **[A Comparative Study of Embedding Models in Predicting the Compositionality of Multiword Expressions](https://aclanthology.org/U18-1009/)**Navnita Nandakumar, Bahar Salehi, Timothy Baldwin
2. **[Classifying Patent Applications with Ensemble Methods](https://aclanthology.org/U18-1012/)**Fernando Benites, Shervin Malmasi, Marcos Zampieri
3. **[Cluster Labeling by Word Embeddings and WordNet's Hypernymy](https://aclanthology.org/U18-1008/)**Hanieh Poostchi, Massimo Piccardi
4. **[Development of Natural Language Processing Tools for Cook Islands Māori](https://aclanthology.org/U18-1003/)**Rolando Coto Solano, Sally Akevai Nicholas, Samantha Wray
5. **[Exploring Textual and Speech information in Dialogue Act Classification with Speaker Domain Adaptation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/he-2018-exploring-textual-speech-information-dialogue/)**Xuanli He, Quan Tran, William Havard et al.*our summary*
6. **[Extracting structured data from invoices](https://aclanthology.org/U18-1006/)**Xavier Holt, Andrew Chisholm
7. **[Improved Neural Machine Translation using Side Information](https://aclanthology.org/U18-1001/)**Cong Duy Vu Hoang, Gholamreza Haffari, Trevor Cohn
8. **[Overview of the 2018 ALTA Shared Task: Classifying Patent Applications](https://aclanthology.org/U18-1011/)**Diego Mollá, Dilesha Seneviratne
9. **[Specifying Conceptual Models Using Restricted Natural Language](https://aclanthology.org/U18-1005/)**Bayzid Ashik Hossain, Rolf Schwitter
10. **[Text-dependent Forensic Voice Comparison: Likelihood Ratio Estimation with the Hidden Markov Model (HMM) and Gaussian Mixture Model](https://aclanthology.org/U18-1002/)**Satoru Tsuge, Shunichi Ishihara
11. **[Towards Efficient Machine Translation Evaluation by Modelling Annotators](https://aclanthology.org/U18-1010/)**Nitika Mathur, Timothy Baldwin, Trevor Cohn
12. **[Universal Language Model Fine-tuning for Patent Classification](https://aclanthology.org/U18-1013/)**Jason Hepburn
13. **[Unsupervised Mining of Analogical Frames by Constraint Satisfaction](https://aclanthology.org/U18-1004/)**Lance De Vine, Shlomo Geva, Peter Bruza

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

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

1. **[Exploring Textual and Speech information in Dialogue Act Classification with Speaker Domain Adaptation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/he-2018-exploring-textual-speech-information-dialogue/) [Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/alta/)**Xuanli He, Quan Tran, William Havard, et al.*2018 · 3 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/) · [Dialogue systems (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Speech & spoken language (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/)

## 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.

[🧑‍🔬**Gholamreza Haffari**1 work here · 3 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gholamreza-haffari/) · [🧑‍🔬**Ingrid Zukerman**1 work here · 3 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ingrid-zukerman/) · [🧑‍🔬**Laurent Besacier**1 work here · 3 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/laurent-besacier/) · [🧑‍🔬**Quan Hung Tran**1 work here · 3 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/quan-hung-tran/) · [🧑‍🔬**Xuanli He**1 work here · 3 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuanli-he/)

## Top institutions

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

[🎓**Institut Universitaire de France** Paris · France 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/institut-universitaire-de-france/) · [🔬**Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble** Grenoble · France 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/laboratoire-d-informatique-de-grenoble/) · [🎓**Monash University** Melbourne · Australia 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/monash-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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