HCSNet Update Newsletter Volume 3 Number 11

Tuesday, 20th March 2007
HCSNet Update
Tuesday 20 March 2007

Participant Spotlight

Linda Barwick, University of Sydney and PARADISEC

Research area: Music Perception and Production - ethnomusicology

I am Associate Professor (Research Only) in the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, and Director of PARADISEC, the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures. My core research interest is in singing and song. I have undertaken field research in Central and Northern Australia, Italy and the Philippines, and have frequently worked with linguists to produce well-documented published recordings of song, in collaboration with indigenous communities. I am particularly interested in song language, musical analysis of non-Western song traditions, and the implications of emerging digital and networking technologies for establishing community access points to research results. I am involved with several song documentation projects in North Australia, including the ARC-funded Murriny Patha Song Project (http://azoulay.arts.usyd.edu.au/mpsong/). Recent publications include: Barwick, Linda, and Nicholas Thieberger, eds. Sustainable Data from Digital Fieldwork. Proceedings of the Conference Held at the University of Sydney, 4-6 December 2006. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2006 http://purl.library.usyd.edu.au/sup/1920898506; and Barwick, L. (2006). A musicologist’s wishlist: some issues, practices and practicalities in musical aspects of language documentation. Language documentation and description, 3(2005), 53-62, http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1313.

Contact:
Linda Barwick
University of Sydney and PARADISEC
Sydney Conservatorium of Music
email: Linda.Barwick@arts.usyd.edu.au     www: www.zipworld.com.au/~lbarwick

News

2007 HCSNet Summer School

A reminder that we'd appreciate if suggestions for Summer School topics and/or presenters could be forwarded to Kym Buckley (ky.buckley@uws.edu.au) by Friday 23 March. Information on Summer Schools held in previous years is available at Summer School 2005 and Summer School 2006.

Use of Vision in HCI (VisHCI 2006)

In November 2006, an HCSNet Workshop on the Use of Vision in HCI was held at the Australian National University. The workshop brought together researchers, practitioners and students from a number of disciplines related to using vision and visual evidence in human-computer interaction (HCI). Presentation slides from the workshop are now available at http://users.rsise.anu.edu.au/~vishci/program.html. Our thanks to workshop organisers: Roland Goecke and Antonio Robles-Kelly.

Australian Language and Speech Conference, Cairns, 12-13 July 2007

The 16th Australian Language and Speech Conference will be held at the Cairns Campus of James Cook University on 12-13 July 2007. Papers focusing on any area of language processing or linguistics will be considered; abstracts due on 1 June 2007. For further information, including online registration, abstract submission etc, please see http://srvcns.it.jcu.edu.au/~david.

Upcoming Submission Deadlines

We list here upcoming submission deadlines that fall in the next month. A more complete list of submission deadlines can be found here. Please note that any enquiries regarding these events should be directed to the event organisers, typically identified on the event's website which you can reach from the link below.

STB-ASR Structure-Based and Template-Based ASR

Antwerp, Belgium
Due date: 23 Mar 2007
URL: http://lands.let.ru.nl/~strik/IS2007-Special_Session-STB_ASR.html

INTERSPEECH 2007 Speech and language technology for less-resourced languages

Antwerp, Belgium
Due date: 23 Mar 2007
URL: www.interspeech2007.org

INTERSPEECH 2007 Machine Learning for Spoken Dialogue Systems

Antwerp, Belgium
Due date: 23 Mar 2007
URL: http://www.interspeech2007.org/

ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2007

University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Due date: 23 Mar 2007
URL: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~doceng07/

ACL 2007 Workshop on Grammar-Based Approaches to Spoken Language Processing

Prague, Czech Republic
Due date: 26 Mar 2007
URL: http://www.issco.unige.ch/speechgram2007

Workshop on Textual Entailment and Paraphrasing

Prague, Czech Republic
Due date: 26 Mar 2007
URL: http://www.acl2007.org/

ACL2007 A Broader Perspective on Multiword Expressions

Prague, Czech Republic
Due date: 26 Mar 2007
URL: http://www.let.uu.nl/~Nicole.Gregoire/personal/

BioNLP 2007

Prague, Czech Republic
Due date: 26 Mar 2007
URL: http://compbio.uchsc.edu/BioNLP2007

Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages Workshop

Prague, Czech Republic
Due date: 26 Mar 2007
URL: http://www.cs.um.edu.mt/~mros/casl07

LaTeCH 2007 Language Technology for Cultural Heritage Data

Prague, Czech Republic
Due date: 26 Mar 2007
URL: http://ilk.uvt.nl/latech07/

ACL 2007 Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Acquisition

Prague, Czech Republic
Due date: 26 Mar 2007
URL: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~alk23/cognitive/cognitive.htm

EMBODIED LANGUAGE PROCESSING

Prague, Czech Republic
Due date: 26 Mar 2007
URL: http:ctsb.northwestern.edu/ELP/

The LAW The Linguistic Annotation Workshop

Prague, Czech Republic
Due date: 26 Mar 2007
URL: http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/acl-lab/LAW-07.html

SCAR Semantic Content Acquisition and Representation

Tartu, Estonia
Due date: 26 Mar 2007
URL: http://www.sics.se/~mange/scar2007

IWPT 2007 10th International Conference on Parsing Technologies

Prague, Czech Republic
Due date: 26 Mar 2007
URL: http://www.latl.unige.ch/iwpt2007/index.html

Fourth ACL-SIGSEM Workshop on Prepositions

Prague, Czech Republic
Due date: 26 Mar 2007
URL: http://csserver.ucd.ie/~fintanc/acl2007/prepositions.html

EMNLP-CoNLL 2007 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning

Prague, Czech Republic
Due date: 26 Mar 2007
URL: http://cs.jhu.edu/EMNLP-CoNLL-2007

Track I of the Web Spam Challenge 2007

Banff, Alberta, Canada
Due date: 30 Mar 2007
URL: http://webspam.lip6.fr/

CITALA-07 International Colloquium on Arabic Language Processing

Rabat, Morocco
Due date: 30 Mar 2007
URL: http://www.iera.ac.ma/iera/CITALA07/index.htm

Machine learning and Cognitive Science in Language Acquisition

London, United Kingdom
Due date: 30 Mar 2007
URL: http://www.cs.rhul.ac.uk/home/alexc/coglang/index.html

CTF07 Concept Types & Frames in Language: Cognition & Science

Duesseldorf, Germany
Due date: 31 Mar 2007
URL: http://phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/fff/ctf/

IPT - EGVE 2007 13th Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments

Weimar, Germany
Due date: 31 Mar 2007
URL: http://www.uni-weimar.de/medien/vr/ipt-egve

ADS at the MMLA American Dialect Society at the MMLA

Ohio, United States
Due date: 1 Apr 2007
URL: http://www.uiowa.edu/~mmla

19th International Congress on Acoustics

Madrid, Spain
Due date: 1 Apr 2007
URL: http://www.ica2007madrid.org

ACL 2007 SECOND WORKSHOP ON STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION

Prague, Czech Republic
Due date: 2 Apr 2007
URL: http://www.statmt.org/wmt07/

An International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE

Plzeò (Pilsen), Czech Republic
Due date: 8 Apr 2007
URL: http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2007

The 26th International Conference on Lexis and Grammar

Corsica, France
Due date: 8 Apr 2007
URL: http://infolingu.univ-mlv.fr/Colloques/Bonifacio/index.html

CLT07 Conference on Language and Technology

Peshawar, Pakistan
Due date: 9 Apr 2007
URL: http://www.dcs.edu.pk/clt/

5th International Conference on Language Acquisition

University of Oviedo, Spain
Due date: 10 Apr 2007
URL: http://www.aeal.eu/

TIR-07 4th International Workshop on Text-Based Information Retrieval

Regensburg, Germany
Due date: 12 Apr 2007
URL: http://www.aisearch.de/tir-07

IVA'07 7th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents

Paris, France
Due date: 15 Apr 2007
URL: http://iva07.ntua.gr

ICPhS 2007 Satellite Workshop on Speaker Age

Saarbrücken, Germany
Due date: 15 Apr 2007
URL: http://w5.cs.uni-sb.de/~cmueller/sa/

MT SUMMIT XI

Copenhagen, Denmark
Due date: 15 Apr 2007
URL: http://www.eamt.org

ParaLing'07 Paralinguistic Speech - Between Models and Data

Saarbrücken, Germany
Due date: 15 Apr 2007
URL: http://www.dfki.de/paraling07

GREC 2007 Seventh IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition

Curitiba, Brazil
Due date: 16 Apr 2007
URL: http://www.cvc.uab.es/iapr-tc10/grec2007/

Pacling-2007 Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics

Melbourne, Australia
Due date: 16 Apr 2007
URL: http://mandrake.csse.unimelb.edu.au/pacling2007/

Upcoming Conferences

We list here upcoming conferences and workshops that fall in the next month. A more complete list of events can be found here. Please note that any enquiries regarding these events should be directed to the event organisers, typically identified on the event's website which you can reach from the link below.

Integrating Language, Linguistics, Literature and Translation in Pedagogy and Research

Muscat, Oman
Date: 21 Mar 2007
to 22 Mar 2007 URL:

ICWSM Int. Conference on Weblogs and Social Media

Colorado, United States
Date: 26 Mar 2007
to 28 Mar 2007 URL: www.icwsm.org

QI-2007 QUANTUM INTERACTION SYMPOSIUM

Stanford University, United States
Date: 26 Mar 2007
to 28 Mar 2007 URL: http://ir.dcs.gla.ac.uk/qi2007

PLL 2007 2007 Pragmatics & Language Learning Conference

Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
Date: 26 Mar 2007
to 28 Mar 2007 URL: http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/prodev/pll/

DA11 11th International Conference on Dialogue Analysis on the Topic of Dialogue Analysis and Rhetoric'

Westphalia, Germany
Date: 27 Mar 2007
to 30 Mar 2007 URL: http://www.uni-muenster.de/Ling/iada/DA11

DAARC'2007 The 6th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium

Lagos, Portugal
Date: 29 Mar 2007
to 30 Mar 2007 URL: http://daarc2007.di.fc.ul.pt/

UNTELE The Use of New Technologies in Foreign Language Teaching

Compiegne, France
Date: 29 Mar 2007
to 31 Mar 2007 URL: http://www.utc.fr/~untele

ILA International Linguistic Association

New York, United States
Date: 30 Mar 2007
to 1 Apr 2007 URL: http://www.ilaword.org

The Intelligibility of Closely Related Languages

Groningen, Netherlands
Date: 2 Apr 2007
to 3 Apr 2007 URL: http://www.let.rug.nl/~gooskens/intelligibility

Speech Prosody in Atypical Populations

University of Reading, United Kingdom
Date: 2 Apr 2007
URL: http://www.rdg.ac.uk/epu/cls_event.htm

Symposium: Spatial Reasoning and Communication

Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Date: 2 Apr 2007
to 5 Apr 2007 URL: http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb07/

Workshop on Ontologies and Semantic Lexica in Automated Discourse Analysis

Tübingen, Germany
Date: 11 Apr 2007
to 13 Apr 2007 URL: http://ariadne.coli.uni-bielefeld.de/mehler/ontologies/

CELCNA Conference on the Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America

Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Date: 13 Apr 2007
to 15 Apr 2007 URL: http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.html

IWGE International Workshop on Grammar & Evidence

Chiayi, Taiwan
Date: 13 Apr 2007
to 15 Apr 2007 URL: http://www.ccunix.ccu.edu.tw/~lngproc/IWGE.htm

IMCL Language Learning with Personal Technologies

Amman, Jordan
Date: 17 Apr 2007
URL: http://www.imcl-conference.org/
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