ALTA invites the submission of papers and presentations on all aspects of natural language processing, including, but not limited to:

• phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse

• speech understanding and generation

• interpreting spoken and written language

• natural language generation

• linguistic, mathematical, and psychological models of language

• NLP-based information extraction and retrieval

• corpus-based and statistical language modelling

• machine translation and translation aids

• question answering and information extraction

• natural language interfaces and dialogue systems

• natural language and multimodal systems

• message and narrative understanding systems

• evaluations of language systems

• embodied conversational agents

• computational lexicography

• summarisation

• language resources

• topic modelling and unsupervised language analysis

• social media analysis and processing and

• domain-specific adaptation of natural language processing algorithms