| Title | Dates | Location | Notes |
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| HCSNet Seminar: Kristin Rosen | November 27, 2006 | University of Western Australia | Title: Quantitative acoustic analysis of conversation produced by dysarthric and healthy speakers |
| Summer School | November 27-28, 2006 | University of Sydney | Participation in the Summer School is open to all Australian graduate and senior undergraduate students, and established and early career researchers in universities and in industry with an interest in Human Communication Science. |
| Student Poster Evening | November 27, 2006 | University of Sydney | The poster session will be held on the evening of Monday 27 November with plenty of food and drinks to keep the atmosphere lively, informal and social. Along the way, we hope you’ll get to know your peers and receive useful feedback on your own research ideas. |
| Perception and Action Workshop | November 30, 2006 | University of Sydney | A 1-day workshop to bring together established and emerging researchers to discuss hot topics in Perception and Action as it applies to Human Communication Science. |
| Human and Machine Speech Workshop | November 30-December 1, 2006 | University of Sydney | A two-day workshop on Human and Machine Speech exploring the likely synergies between Human and Machine speech recognition. |
| Australasian Language Technology Workshop | November 30-December 1, 2006 | University of Sydney | A two-day workshop on Natural Language Technology to be held as part of SummerFest '06. This event will be the fourth annual installment of the workshop in its most-recent incarnation, and the continuation of an annual workshop series that has existed under various guises since the early 90s. |
| HCSNet Workshop on the Use of Vision in HCI | November 1-3, 2006 | Australian National University, Canberra | This international workshop aims to bring together researchers, practitioners and students from a number of discplines related to using vision and visual evidence in human-computer interaction (HCI). |
| HCSNet Workshop on Effective Interactive Interfaces | 27-28 September, 2006 | Australian Technology Park, Sydney | What makes interaction "effective", in the sense of enhancing user task performance and task efficiency? What interaction strategies can be deployed within human-machine interfaces, particularly dialogue and Multimodal interfaces, to make them more effective? |
| HCSNet Priority Area Workshop on Next-Generation Search Technology | 21-22 September, 2006 | University of Melbourne | This priority research area focuses on how we can improve search engine technology by integrating more knowledge about the processing and understanding of language. |
| HCSNet International Visiting Speaker Seminar: Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh | 4 August, 2006, 3-4pm | Macquarie University | Lexicalised Discourse Grammar, Robust Corpus Annotation and Future Language Technology: Bonnie Webber will review the features of discourse that trigger the additional, higher-order meaning it conveys, and discuss the Penn Discourse TreeBank. |
| HCSNet International Visiting Speaker Seminar: Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh | July 27, 2006, 1pm | University of Melbourne | Annotating Discourse Connectives for Future Language Technology: Bonnie Webber will review the features of discourse that trigger the additional, higher-order meaning it conveys, and discuss the Penn Discourse TreeBank. |
| Computational Modelling of Language and Communication Disorders Workshop | 22nd-23rd July, 2006 | Macquarie University | Aims to build stronger links between clinical, experimental and computational modelling of disorders where there is a language or communication deficit. |
| Music as Human Communication: An HCSNet Workshop on the
Science of Music Perception, Performance and Cognition | 17th-18th July, 2006 | MARCS Auditory Laboratories, University of Western Sydney (Bankstown – Milperra campus) | Aims to present and discuss the latest research that investigates human communication in the form of music perception, performance and cognition. |
| ACL/HCSNet Advanced Program in Natural Language Processing | 10th-14th July, 2006 | University of Melbourne | A week of advanced tutorials on major topics of current research
interest in natural language processing. |
| Ethnographic E-Research Conference and Workshop | 15th-17th February, 2006 | University of Melbourne | Aims to discuss and develop guidelines for building online annotation and browsability of ethnographic media. |
| Seminar: Henry Lieberman of MIT Media Lab | 6th February, 2006 | University of Melbourne | A Goal-Oriented Interface to Consumer Electronics Using Planning and Commonsense Reasoning. Dr. Lieberman discusses his recent work on intelligent interface design. |
