HCSNet Update Newsletter Volume 3 Number 17

Tuesday, 1st May 2007
HCSNet Update
Tuesday 1 May 2007

Participant Spotlight

Lesley Stirling, University of Melbourne

Research area: Linguistics - Psycholinguistics

I did my PhD in Cognitive Science and Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh with a typological and formal account of switch-reference in Discourse Representation Theory, and my research since has continued to combine interests in discourse and cognitive modelling, and in grammatical description and typology. Ongoing work on the Western Torres Strait islands language, Kala Lagaw Ya, considers topics in both grammar and discourse and I have a broader interest in referential choice, typological discourse analysis and conversational analysis in Australian languages. Along with Rodney Huddleston I wrote the chapter on 'Deixis and Anaphora' in The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (2002), and I have a special interest in such discourse topics as anaphora and reference, discourse structure, narrative analysis and perspective marking. Earlier collaborative, psycholinguistic research on the relationship between prosody and syntactic structure in sentence processing and disambiguation (with Roger Wales) and on dialogue structure and prosody (with Roger Wales, Janet Fletcher and Ilana Mushin) has been published in journals such as Language & Cognitive Processes, Speech Communication, Language & Speech, and Discourse Processes, and in the Proceedings of Sigdial and Gotalog. Since 2004 I have shifted focus to a consideration of discourse and language disorders and in particular have been working on a collaborative research project (funded by an ARC grant from 2006) on autism and written narrative: 'StoryLincs'. The project website for this (including links to publications) is at http://www.autismnarrative.unimelb.edu.au. I am also involved in a current project on language and schizophrenia and cross-disciplinary work exploring linguistic indicators of perspective and identity in narratives of disease and disability.

Contact:
Lesley Stirling
University of Melbourne
School of Languages & Linguistics
email: Lesley.Stirling@med.monash.edu.au     www: www.linguistics.unimelb.edu.au/about/staff/profiles/stirling/

News

HCSNet Awards

We'd like to remind you that HCSNet is now inviting applications for the HCSNet Graduate Student Placement Award and the HCSNet Early Career Researcher Placement Award in 2007. The Awards provide financial support for a Higher Degree Research Student and Early Career Researcher to spend a block of time (two weeks or longer) at another participating Research Laboratory, Centre, Group, Department or Industry Facility in Australia. The proposed visit should be designed to enhance knowledge or a skills base, build professional networks, and provide an opportunity to collaborate with experts in the field. Financial support from HCSNet is up to $2,500 to each award winner plus $500 to each host institution to assist with local expenses. Applications will be assessed on merit by the HCSNet Executive and a nominated assessor relevant to the proposal. Closing date for applications: 25 May 2007; for further information, including eligibility, assessment criteria and application forms, please see Early Career Researcher (ECR) Placement Award and Graduate Student Placement Award.

HCSNet International Intersensory Research Symposium: Perception and Action

The HCSNet International Intersensory Research Symposium: Perception and Action will be held in Sydney on Tuesday, 3 July 2007. A reminder that the closing date for the submission of poster abstracts is 30 May 2007. Please see http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/hcsnetevents/2007/pasymposium for symposium details, including the draft program.

Priority Area Information

HCSNet Priority Area Workshops will be held in July, September and December this year. So that we can keep you better informed about these events, please take a few minutes to visit your participant profile and indicate which of our Priority Areas are of most interest to you. You'll need to log in using your username which is listed on your profile page in the Participants List, click 'my account', click 'edit', and then tick the priority area interest boxes. Thanks to participants who have already provided this information!

Upcoming Seminars

We list here upcoming seminars that are happening in the next month. A more complete list of seminars 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.

H.A.I.L. Seminar series NLP of Medical Records

Sydney, Australia
Date: 8 May 2007
URL: http://www.ict.csiro.au/HAIL/

Cochlear's Innovation Story

Sydney, Australia
Date: 14 May 2007

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.

AMLaP 2007 Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing

Turku, Finland
Due date: 4 May 2007
URL: http://amlap.utu.fi

2nd International Conference on the Pragmatic Web

Tilburg, Netherlands
Due date: 7 May 2007
URL: www.PragmaticWeb.info

ICML-2007 Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Grammar Induction

Oregon State University, United States
Due date: 7 May 2007
URL: www.cs.okstate.edu/cagi07/

TMI-07 The Eleventh Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation

Skövde, Sweden
Due date: 11 May 2007

Intonation Workshop on Intonational Phonology

Saarbrücken, Germany
Due date: 15 May 2007
URL: http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/jun/intonation.htm

CoSMo 2007 Contextual Information in Semantic Space Models

Roskilde, Denmark
Due date: 15 May 2007
URL: http://polorovereto.unitn.it/~baroni/beyond_words

BUCLD Boston University Conference on Language Development

Boston, MA, United States
Due date: 15 May 2007
URL: http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/

WISI Web Information-Seeking and Interaction

Amsterdam, Netherlands
Due date: 16 May 2007
URL: http://research.microsoft.com/~ryenw/wisi

Music, Language and Movement

England, United Kingdom
Due date: 18 May 2007
URL: http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/Research/imhsd/SummerWorkshop2007/

PsychoCompLA-2007 Psychocomputational Models of Human Language Acquisition

Tennessee, United States
Due date: 22 May 2007
URL: http://www.colag.cs.hunter.cuny.edu/psychocomp/

SIGIR 2007 Workshop Improving Web retrieval for non-English queries

Amsterdam, Netherlands
Due date: 25 May 2007
URL: http://rea.teimes.gr/~lazarinf/ir7w/

CHAA-07 Communication Between Human and Artificial Agents

Silicon Valley, United States
Due date: 25 May 2007
URL: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~ckemke/CHAA-07/

TLS 11 The New Empiricism in Linguistics

Austin, TX, United States
Due date: 27 May 2007
URL: http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~tls/2007tls/

Written Communication: Intercultural Aspect

Kursk, Russian Federation
Due date: 31 May 2007
URL: http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.html.

Linguistic Studies of Ontology: From Lexical Semantics to Formal Ontologies and Back

Seoul, Korea, Republic Of
Due date: 31 May 2007
URL: http://cil18.org

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.

Contrast07 3rd Workshop on Contrast

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

AFLA 14 Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association 14

Montreal, QC, Canada
Date: 4 May 2007
to 6 May 2007 URL: http://linguistlist.org/

CBBC Workshop Neurocognition of Developmental Language Disorders

Washington, DC, United States
Date: 4 May 2007
URL: http://cbbc.georgetown.edu/workshops/2007DLD.html

Applied Natural Language Processing (special track)

Key West, Florida, United States
Date: 7 May 2007
to 9 May 2007 URL: http://homepage.mac.com/hempelma/flairs07.html

AIRWeb 2007 Third International Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web

Banff, Alberta, Canada
Date: 8 May 2007
URL: http://airweb.cse.lehigh.edu/2007/

Track I of the Web Spam Challenge 2007

Banff, Alberta, Canada
Date: 8 May 2007
URL: http://webspam.lip6.fr/

4th International Workshop on Generative Approaches to the Lexicon

Paris, France
Date: 10 May 2007
to 11 May 2007 URL: http://www.issco.unige.ch/gl2007/

Formal Approaches to Variation in Syntax

England, United Kingdom
Date: 10 May 2007
to 13 May 2007 URL: http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.html

Workshop Language, Cognition and Parkinson's Disease

Groningen, Netherlands
Date: 10 May 2007
URL: http://www.let.rug.nl/parkinson

Language and Music as Cognitive Systems

University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Date: 11 May 2007
to 13 May 2007 URL: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2006-7/language-music.html

ABSHLE Agent-Based Systems for Human Learning and Entertainment

Hawaii, United States
Date: 14 May 2007
to 15 May 2007 URL: http://agents.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/abshle07

ML4NLP Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing

Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date: 16 May 2007
URL: http://www.science.uva.nl/~katrenko/benelearn07/workshop.html

CLIC/LISO Conference On Language, Interaction, And Culture

Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Date: 17 May 2007
to 19 May 2007 URL: LISOconference@gmail.com

GASLA 9 Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition 9

Iowa City, IA, United States
Date: 18 May 2007
to 20 May 2007 URL: http://www.ss.ucalgary.ca/JArchibald/Program.html

CLDC-1 1st Conference on Language, Discourse and Cognition

Taipei, Taiwan
Date: 18 May 2007
to 19 May 2007 URL: http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~gilntu/

International Workshop on the Biology and Genetics of Music

Palazzo del Podestà - Bologna, Italy
Date: 20 May 2007
to 22 May 2007 URL: http://www.musicagenetica.it

MTT '07 3rd International Conference on Meaning-Text Theory

Klagenfurt, Austria
Date: 21 May 2007
to 24 May 2007 URL: http://www.mtt.upf.edu/

Knowledge Communication in Multimodal Contexts

Aarhus, Denmark
Date: 21 May 2007
to 22 May 2007 URL: http://www.asb.dk/about/departments/isek/forskning/konferencer/multimodalwor

TFSG'07 2nd International Workshop on Typed Feature Structure Grammars

Tartu, Estonia
Date: 24 May 2007
URL: http://cst.dk/anders/tfsg/tfsg07.html

SCAR Semantic Content Acquisition and Representation

Tartu, Estonia
Date: 24 May 2007
URL: http://www.sics.se/~mange/scar2007

CONSTRAINT GRAMMAR WORKSHOP

Tartu, Estonia
Date: 24 May 2007
URL: http://giellatekno.uit.no/cg/ee07/

Interactivist Summer Institute 2007

Paris, France
Date: 26 May 2007
to 29 May 2007 URL: http://www.lehigh.edu/~interact/isi2007/index.htm

CL-HCI2007 Computational Linguistics in HCI 2007

Beijing, China
Date: 27 May 2007
to 30 May 2007 URL: http://monet.skku.ac.kr/clhci2007/

RIAO'2007 Large-Scale Semantic Access to Content (Text, Image, Video and Sound)

Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Date: 30 May 2007
to 1 Jun 2007 URL: http://www.riao.org

DECALOG THE 2007 WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE

Rovereto, Italy
Date: 30 May 2007
to 1 Jun 2007 URL: http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/semdial/

DECALOG The 2007 Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue

Università di Trento, Italy
Date: 30 May 2007
to 1 Jun 2007 URL: http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/Research/nle/decalog/
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