HCSNet Update Newsletter Volume 3 Number 18

Tuesday, 8th May 2007
HCSNet Update
Tuesday 8 May 2007

Lab Spotlight

Music Acoustics, UNSW

Our lab researches the acoustics of musical instruments and the voice. We also study music as a signal. In wind instruments, we study their resonators (the body of the instrument), their control oscillators (reed, lips, air jet), their interactions with the player's vocal tract. We are interested in the details of performance techniques, including embouchures and fingerings. In string instruments, we look at transfer functions, acoustical performance, and string-bow interactions.

We are also interested in the fundamental acoustics of speech and singing, performance techniques of trained singers, particularly the use of vocal tract resonances. In previous work with cochlear implants, we examined the perception of music and of tonal languages and we occasionally work on feedback techniques in training. We are also interested in the information content of music, and some of the broader questions thus raised.

More detail and many of our publications are on our web site at http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/music.

Details:
Music Acoustics
UNSW
Contact: Joe Wolfe (J.Wolfe@unsw.edu.au)     
www: www.phys.unsw.edu.au/music

News

HCSNet Seminar Support Program

A reminder that HCSNet provides financial support for the organisation of seminars through its Seminar Support Program. The Program aims to bring together researchers who might otherwise not meet as a consequence of both geographical and disciplinary boundaries. Funding of up to $1,000 can be requested for an HCSNet Seminar and is allocated on the basis of competitive applications. Please see http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/programs/seminar for more information.

Positions Vacant in MARCS Auditory Laboratories, UWS

MARCS Auditory Laboratories seeks to appoint a Senior Research Officer to provide support for the ARC Discovery Project "Music, Arousal and Mood: The Role of Loudness and Loudness Change in Cross-Cultural Music Perception", and a Research Officer to support the ARC Discovery Project "How Strict is the 'Mother Tongue'? Using Dialects to Probe Early Speech Perception and Word Recognition". Closing date: 25 May 2007; further details are available at: http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/jobs/2007/marcs-april.

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.

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

Skövde, Sweden
Due date: 11 May 2007
URL: http://www.computing.dcu.ie/~away/TMI-07/

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

1st International Conference on Corpus-Based Approaches

Castelló, Spain
Due date: 18 May 2007
URL: http://www.fue.uji.es/jornadas/verevento.shtm?id=2676&tipoexpte=jornada

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/

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/

SIGIR 2007 Workshop Improving Web retrieval for non-English queries

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

TLS 11 The New Empiricism in Linguistics

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

Workshop on Contextualization in Human Tasks: Enriching of Actors

Denmark, Denmark
Due date: 28 May 2007
URL: http://www-poleia.lip6.fr/~jbrezillon/CHUT-07

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

FDIA 2007 The BCS-IRSG Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access

Scotland, United Kingdom
Due date: 1 Jun 2007
URL: http://irsg.bcs.org/fdia2007.php

Sixteenth Australian Language and Speech Conference

Cairns, Qld, Australia
Due date: 1 Jun 2007
URL: http://srvcns.it.jcu.edu.au/~david/

ASCS 2007 8th Australasian Society for Cognitive Science Conference

Adelaide, Australia
Due date: 1 Jun 2007
URL: http://www.arts.adelaide.edu.au/humanities/ascs2007/

FSMNLP 2007 Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing

Potsdam, Germany
Due date: 3 Jun 2007
URL: http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/fsmnlp2007

6th International Workshop on Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing

Potsdam, Germany
Due date: 3 Jun 2007
URL: http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/fsmnlp2007/

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.

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/

Biolinguistics: Language Evolution and Variation

Venice, Italy
Date: 4 Jun 2007
to 6 Jun 2007 URL: http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.html

Austronesian Endangered Language Documentation

Shala, Taiwan
Date: 5 Jun 2007
to 6 Jun 2007 URL: http://yamiproject.cs.pu.edu.tw/yami/conference/session.htm

AIIDE-07 Third Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment

California, United States
Date: 6 Jun 2007
to 8 Jun 2007 URL:

Segments and Tone

Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date: 7 Jun 2007
to 8 Jun 2007 URL: http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.html
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