HCSNet Update Newsletter Volume 3 Number 21

Tuesday, 29th May 2007
HCSNet Update
Tuesday 29 May 2007

Participant Spotlight

Roberto Togneri, University of Western Australia

Research area: Speech Science and Technology - Speech Technology

Dr Roberto Togneri's research activities include signal processing and feature extraction of speech signals, statistical and neural network models for speech and speaker recognition, applications of spoken language technology, language modelling and understanding, and related aspects of communications, information retrieval, and pattern recognition. Dr Togneri has published over 50 papers in refereed conference and journal publications in the areas of spoken language and information systems and is co-author of the book Fundamentals of Information Theory and Coding Design, Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2003. For resources and information on Spoken Language Systems research please refer to http://www.ee.uwa.edu.au/~roberto/research/speech.html.

Contact:
Roberto Togneri
University of Western Australia
School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering
email: roberto@ee.uwa.edu.au     www: www.ee.uwa.edu.au/~roberto/research/

News

CSIRO HAIL/HCSNet Seminar

A reminder that Dr Barbara Kelly from the Department of Linguistics, the University of Melbourne, will be presenting a seminar entitled "Linguistics and the development of community in computer mediated conversation" in the CSIRO Conference Room, Building E6B, Macquarie University, Sydney at 11:00am on Tuesday 5 June 2007. For more information, including the abstract, please see http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/hcsnetevents/2007/kelly.

HCSNet Workshop - NGS07

Thanks to participants who have sent in submissions for the second HCSNet Workshop of the Next Generation Search Priority Area to be held on 19-20 July 2007 at Macquarie University, Sydney. The aim of the workshop is to further develop grounds for collaboration across the NGS community, and there will be a keynote presentation by Brett Poole, Head of Search at Yahoo!7. Please note that the closing date for submissions is 8 June 2007; for more information, please visit http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/workshops/next-gen-search07.

Photos on the HCSNet home page

If you have visited the HCSNet website recently you will have noticed that our home page now features photographs of activities at participating laboratories. Each time you visit the page, you should see a different picture. If you'd like to add images from your laboratory to our gallery, please send these to newsletter@hcsnet.edu.au.

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 Linguistics and the development of community in computer mediated conversation

Sydney, Australia
Date: 5 Jun 2007
URL: http://www.ict.csiro.au/HAIL/location.htm

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 Fourth Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment, 2007

Melbourne, Australia
Due date: 30 May 2007
URL: http://www.ie.rmit.edu.au

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

Written Communication: Intercultural Aspect

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

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/

Sixteenth Australian Language and Speech Conference

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

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

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/

IJCNLP-08 3rd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing

Hyderabad, India
Due date: 8 Jun 2007
URL: http://www.ijcnlp2008.org/

NGS07 Second HCSNet Next Generation Search Workshop

Sydney, Australia
Due date: 8 Jun 2007
URL: http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/workshops/next-gen-search07

UCNLG+MT Using Corpora for NLG: Language Generation and MT

Copenhagen, Denmark
Due date: 8 Jun 2007
URL: http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/ucnlg/

ISCIT 2007 7th International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies

Sydney, Australia
Due date: 10 Jun 2007
URL: http://www.elec.uow.edu.au/ISCIT2007/

Persistent Conversation Minitrack - HICSS 41

Hawaii, United States
Due date: 15 Jun 2007
URL: http://www.visi.com/~snowfall/HICSS_PC.html

Workshop on NLP for Educational Resources

Borovetz, Bulgaria
Due date: 15 Jun 2007
URL: http://ixa.si.ehu.es/NLP_ER2007

2nd International Workshop on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design

Seoul, Korea, Republic Of
Due date: 15 Jun 2007
URL: http://www.haid2007.org

ICQM International Conference on Quotation and Meaning

Johannes Gutenberg, Germany
Due date: 15 Jun 2007
URL: http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.html.

Workshop on Computational Phonology

Borovets, Bulgaria
Due date: 15 Jun 2007
URL: http://www.let.rug.nl/alfa/Borovetz-2007

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.

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/

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

The Sound Patterns of Syntax

Beer Sheva, Israel
Date: 11 Jun 2007
to 13 Jun 2007 URL: http://www.bgu.ac.il/~shir

The 4th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science

Funchal, Madeira, Portugal
Date: 12 Jun 2007
to 13 Jun 2007 URL: http://www.iceis.org/workshops/nlpcs/nlpcs2007-cfp.html

Globalization and Communication: Enrichment and Threat

Gdansk, Poland
Date: 14 Jun 2007
to 16 Jun 2007 URL:

Building Meaning from Language: Tufts Conference

Medford, MA, United States
Date: 14 Jun 2007
to 16 Jun 2007 URL: http://ase.tufts.edu/psychology/conference/

ENLG07 11th EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION

Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany
Date: 17 Jun 2007
to 20 Jun 2007 URL: http://enlg07.dfki.de

ISGS 2007 International Society for Gesture Studies Conference 2007: Integrating Gestures

Evanston, IL, United States
Date: 18 Jun 2007
to 21 Jun 2007 URL: http://www.gesturestudies.com

LENLS 2007 Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics

Miyazaki, Japan
Date: 18 Jun 2007
to 19 Jun 2007 URL: http://www.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp/~ogata/LENLS2007.html

CITALA-07 International Colloquium on Arabic Language Processing

Rabat, Morocco
Date: 18 Jun 2007
to 19 Jun 2007 URL: http://www.iera.ac.ma/iera/CITALA07/index.htm

Second Workshop on The Future of Web Search

Bertinoro, Italy
Date: 18 Jun 2007
to 20 Jun 2007 URL: www.dsi.uniroma1.it/~tfws07

ICML-2007 Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Grammar Induction

Oregon State University, United States
Date: 20 Jun 2007
to 24 Jun 2007 URL: www.cs.okstate.edu/cagi07/

Machine learning and Cognitive Science in Language Acquisition

London, United Kingdom
Date: 21 Jun 2007
to 22 Jun 2007 URL: http://www.cs.rhul.ac.uk/home/alexc/coglang/index.html

CAFIC & IAICS Conference 2007

Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China
Date: 22 Jun 2007
to 24 Jun 2007 URL: http://www.trinity.edu/org/ics/Harbin-conference-07.html

IWPT 2007 10th International Conference on Parsing Technologies

Prague, Czech Republic
Date: 23 Jun 2007
to 24 Jun 2007 URL: http://www.latl.unige.ch/iwpt2007/index.html

ACL 2007 SECOND WORKSHOP ON STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION

Prague, Czech Republic
Date: 23 Jun 2007
URL: http://www.statmt.org/wmt07/

45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Prague, Czech Republic
Date: 24 Jun 2007
to 29 Jun 2007 URL: http://www.acl2007.org

ILINTEC'07 Intelligent Linguistic Technologies

Nevada, United States
Date: 25 Jun 2007
to 28 Jun 2007 URL: http://www.ipiran.ru/conference/Ilintec07/

Wikifying Research

Leipzig, Germany
Date: 25 Jun 2007
to 27 Jun 2007 URL: http://email.eva.mpg.de/~cysouw/meetings/wikifying.html

ICAD '07 The 13th International Conference on Auditory Display

Montréal, Canada
Date: 26 Jun 2007
to 29 Jun 2007 URL: http://www.music.mcgill.ca/icad2007/

JEL'2007 Schwa(s) - 5èmes Journées d'Études Linguistiques

Nantes, France
Date: 27 Jun 2007
to 28 Jun 2007 URL: http://www.lettres.univ-nantes.fr/lling/jel2007/

MLMI'07 4th Joint Workshop on Machine Learning and Multimodal Interaction

Brno, Czech Republic
Date: 28 Jun 2007
to 30 Jun 2007 URL: http://www.mlmi07.org

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

Prague, Czech Republic
Date: 28 Jun 2007
to 30 Jun 2007 URL: http://cs.jhu.edu/EMNLP-CoNLL-2007

The LAW The Linguistic Annotation Workshop

Prague, Czech Republic
Date: 28 Jun 2007
to 29 Jun 2007 URL: http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/acl-lab/LAW-07.html

Workshop on Textual Entailment and Paraphrasing

Prague, Czech Republic
Date: 28 Jun 2007
to 29 Jun 2007 URL: http://www.acl2007.org/

ACL2007 A Broader Perspective on Multiword Expressions

Prague, Czech Republic
Date: 28 Jun 2007
URL: http://www.let.uu.nl/~Nicole.Gregoire/personal/

LaTeCH 2007 Language Technology for Cultural Heritage Data

Prague, Czech Republic
Date: 28 Jun 2007
URL: http://ilk.uvt.nl/latech07/

EMBODIED LANGUAGE PROCESSING

Prague, Czech Republic
Date: 28 Jun 2007
URL: http:ctsb.northwestern.edu/ELP/

Fourth ACL-SIGSEM Workshop on Prepositions

Prague, Czech Republic
Date: 28 Jun 2007
URL: http://csserver.ucd.ie/~fintanc/acl2007/prepositions.html

Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages Workshop

Prague, Czech Republic
Date: 28 Jun 2007
URL: http://www.cs.um.edu.mt/~mros/casl07

DCAL Summer School

London, United Kingdom
Date: 28 Jun 2007
to 29 Jun 2007 URL: http://www.dcal.ac.uk/summerschool

ACL 2007 Workshop on Deep Linguistic Processing

Prague, Czech Republic
Date: 28 Jun 2007
URL: http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/~tim/events/acl2007-deep/
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