HCSNet Update Newsletter Volume 3 Number 13

Tuesday, 3rd April 2007
HCSNet Update
Tuesday 3 April 2007

Participant Spotlight

Nicolas Fay, University of Western Australia

Research area: Psychology - Interpersonal Communication

Human communication is a complicated process involving a number of systems that work in concert (i.e. verbal & nonverbal). While we tend to communicate with ease, it’s not clear how we do this. “How it works” (i.e. the process), and our perceived communicative ability (read prowess) are two questions my research addresses. With respect to question 1, I’m interested in how we communicate across a range of modalities e.g. verbal, gesture, and graphical. Current projects include the following: the interactive evolution of graphical conventions (e.g. writing systems) and the benefits they offer (e.g. computer icons & road signs); a [human] simulation of the pantomimic origins of sign language and its development; and an empirical investigation of the proposition that spoken language evolved from manual communication (i.e. gesture) and subsequently migrated to the mouth (i.e. speech). As for question 2, in collaboration with A/Prof Andrew Page (UWA), I am currently investigating the perceived and actual communicative proficiency (speaking & listening) of persons who suffer from social anxiety. For more information (including publications and grants held) please visit my webpage or send me an email (details below).

Contact:
Nicolas Fay
University of Western Australia
Psychology
email: nfay@psy.uwa.edu.au     www: www.psy.uwa.edu.au/comlab/

News

New HCSNet Workshop Announced!

The latest HCSNet workshop has just been announced. The workshop is titled "The International Intersensory Research Symposium: Perception and Action" and will be held at the Hotel InterContinental in Sydney on Tuesday 3rd July. The workshop has been timed to directly precede the 2007 IMRF conference and will feature two international keynote speakers (Prof Heinrich Bülthoff, Germany and Prof Olaf Blanke, Switzerland). There will be three poster sessions held throughout the day and researchers are now invited to submit a poster abstract for consideration. HCSNet will endeavour to provide financial support for postgraduate students travelling to Sydney for the Symposium upon acceptance of a poster abstract. The deadline for submission of poster abstracts is 30th April so get in early and secure your place at the Symposium today! Registration for this event is essential as the Symposium will be limited to not more than 50 participants. Please visit http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/hcsnetevents/2007/pasymposium for further details.

Participant Profiles - Request for Priority Area information

Further to last week's announcement, we'd be grateful if you could visit your participant profile at http://www.hcsnet.edu.au to indicate which of our Priority Areas are of most interest to you as this will assist with our planning for the year. While you're there, please check that all your other profile details are up-to-date. Thanks!

HCSNet Annual Report 2006

HCSNet's Annual Report for 2006 is now available on the website here. Thank you to all our contributors. If you would like a hard copy of the Annual Report, please contact us at newsletter@hcsnet.edu.au.

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.

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

An International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE

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

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

SoA8 8th Science of Aphasia Conference

Monopoli (Bari), Italy
Due date: 15 Apr 2007
URL: http://www.soa-online.com

ICPhS 2007 Satellite Workshop on Speaker Age

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

IVA'07 7th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents

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

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/

SLT4LRL Speech/language technology for less-resourced languages

Antwerp, Belgium
Due date: 27 Apr 2007
URL: http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/saltmil/history/interspeech2007/

Fourth Workshop on Textual Case-Based Reasoning

Belfast, Ireland
Due date: 30 Apr 2007
URL: http://www.iccbr.org/iccbr07/

CSSP 2007 7th Syntax and Semantics Conference

Paris, France
Due date: 30 Apr 2007
URL: http://www.cssp.cnrs.fr/index_en.html

ESP07 Embodied sentence processing

Saarland, Germany
Due date: 1 May 2007
URL: http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/conf/esp07/

WAC3 3rd Web as Corpus Workshop incorporating Cleaneval

Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Due date: 1 May 2007
URL: http://www.uclouvain.be/en-index.html

Formal Approaches to Variation in Syntax

England, United Kingdom
Due date: 1 May 2007
URL: http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.html

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.

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/

NAACL HLT 2007 Human Language Technologies: The Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

New York, United States
Date: 22 Apr 2007
to 28 Apr 2007 URL: http://www.cs.rochester.edu/meetings/hlt-naacl07

Doctoral Consortium at NAACL HLT 2007

Rochester, NY, United States
Date: 22 Apr 2007
URL: http://www.cs.rochester.edu/meetings/hlt-naacl07/dc/

HLT/NAACL 2007 Computational Approaches to Figurative Language

Rochester, NY, United States
Date: 26 Apr 2007
URL: http://chss3.montclair.edu/linguistics/lingpage/faculty/feldman/FigLang2007

NAACL/HLT 2007 Workshop Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing

Rochester, NY, United States
Date: 26 Apr 2007
URL: http://www.textgraphs.org/ws07

HLT/NAACL 2007 Confidence Estimation for Natural Language Processing

Rochester, New York, United States
Date: 26 Apr 2007
URL: http://cenlp.iltevents.org/

NAACL HLT 2007 SYNTAX AND STRUCTURE IN STATISTICAL TRANSLATION

Rochester, New York, United States
Date: 26 Apr 2007
URL: http://www.cs.ust.hk/~dekai/ssst/

RecHuL Recursion in Human Languages

Normal, Illinois, United States
Date: 27 Apr 2007
to 29 Apr 2007 URL: http://www.llc.ilstu.edu/rechul/

CHI 2007 STRIKING A CHORD: VOCAL INTERACTION IN ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGIES, GAMES, AND MORE

California, United States
Date: 29 Apr 2007
URL: http://www.vocal-input.org

Contrast07 3rd Workshop on Contrast

Berlin, Germany
Date: 3 May 2007
to 4 May 2007 URL: http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/events/kontrast07/
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