HCSNet Update Newsletter Volume 3 Number 22

Tuesday, 5th June 2007
HCSNet Update
Tuesday 5 June 2007

Lab Spotlight

Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science (MACCS), Macquarie University

MACCS has been funded since January 1 2000 by the Australian Research Council under its Special Research Centre scheme. At present the Centre consists of 24 postdoctoral research staff distributed across the academic levels A through E, 23 PhD students, and 3 administrative staff members. MACCS carries out research and research training in cognitive science with special emphasis on three areas of investigation: language (especially acquired and developmental disorders of language), belief formation (with a focus on delusional belief) and visual cognition. A fourth area, the cognitive science of action, is now being developed at the Centre. Specialized laboratories at MACCS include an ERP lab, a high-performance computing lab for computational modelling work, an eye-tracking lab using an EyeLink II), a language acquisition lab, behavioural testing labs and the Southern Hemisphere’s first magnetoencephalography (MEG) lab. The MEG lab currently has a system for imaging adult brains and a second system, the first MEG system in the world for imaging work with child subjects, is under construction. An action lab is to be established shortly.

Details:
Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science (MACCS)
Macquarie University
Contact: Professor Max Coltheart (max@maccs.mq.edu.au)     
www: www.maccs.mq.edu.au

News

International Conference on Music Communication Science - Second CALL FOR PAPERS

The inaugural International Conference on Music Communication Science (ICOMCS) will be held from 5-7 December and will be the flagship event of SummerFest '07. The conference will attract people from all walks of research and performance life, including musicologists, psychologists, educators, linguists, composers, engineers, computer scientists, speech scientists, physicists, philosophers and performance artists. The aim of the conference is to bring a wide range of presenters together, ranging from students to established researchers with an interest in finding or presenting synergies from several disciplines to help solve problems in music, or to use elements of music and music research to address problems in other disciplines. Performance items and research papers will be considered. Abstracts and 4-page full-papers for peer-review can be submitted. Symposia organised around predetermined themes are encouraged. Sessions will consist of short (4 minute 'Speed' papers) and regular length presentations. Submissions are due on Monday July 2. Details and the full Call for Papers can be found at the ICOMCS web site: http://marcs.uws.edu.au/links/ICoMusic. For more information contact Emery Schubert (E.Schubert@unsw.edu.au) or Kate Stevens (kj.stevens@uws.edu.au).

HCSNet Perception and Action Symposium – Register Now!

Just a reminder that the HCSNet research symposium on perception and action will held in Sydney on Tuesday 3 July, 2007. The Symposium will be held at the Hotel InterContinental and has been timed to directly precede the 2007 IMRF conference. 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 a registration form and further details. It is not too late to submit a poster abstract but please get in early and send your submission to ky.buckley@uws.edu.au. By submitting a poster abstract you may be eligible for travel support to Sydney and have your registration fee waived!

HCSNet Workshop NGS07 - Submissions close Friday, 8 June

We'd like to remind you that the second HCSNet Workshop of the Next Generation Search Priority Area will be held on 19-20 July 2007 at Macquarie University, Sydney. The workshop will explore how we can improve search engine technology by integrating more knowledge about the processing and understanding of language and there will be a keynote presentation by Brett Poole, Head of Search of Yahoo!7. Please note that the closing date for submissions is 8 June 2007; further details are available at: http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/workshops/next-gen-search07.

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.

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

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

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/

NGS07 Second HCSNet Next Generation Search Workshop

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

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/

IRGM 2007 Information Retrieval and Applications of Graphical Models

Amsterdam, Netherlands
Due date: 11 Jun 2007
URL: http://irgm.bpiwowar.net

RANLP 2007 Multi-source Multilingual Information Extraction and Summarization

Borovets, Bulgaria
Due date: 15 Jun 2007
URL: http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2007/

CALP'07 Computer-Aided Language Processing

Borovetz, Bulgaria
Due date: 15 Jun 2007
URL: http://clg.wlv.ac.uk/events/CALP07/

Genre and NLP Towards Genre-Enabled Search Engines

Borovets, Bulgaria
Due date: 15 Jun 2007
URL: http://www.sics.se/use/genre-ws/

Workshop on NLP for Educational Resources

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

Persistent Conversation Minitrack - HICSS 41

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

ICQM International Conference on Quotation and Meaning

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

2nd International Workshop on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design

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

Workshop on Computational Phonology

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

PACLIC21 21st Pacific Asia Conference on Language Inforormation and Computation

Seoul, Korea, Republic Of
Due date: 30 Jun 2007
URL: http://paclic21.snu.ac.kr

TeMA-2007 Workshop on Text Mining and Applications

Guimarães, Portugal
Due date: 30 Jun 2007
URL: http://epia2007.appia.pt/

SSMT-2007 The Third Symposium on Statistical Machine Translation

Harbin, China
Due date: 30 Jun 2007
URL: http://mitlab.hit.edu.cn/ssmt2007.html

International Workshop on What it Means to Communicate

Porto, Portugal
Due date: 30 Jun 2007
URL: http://www.his.sunderland.ac.uk/nestcom/workshop/

Inaugural International Conference on Music Communication Science

Sydney, Australia
Due date: 2 Jul 2007
URL: http://marcs.uws.edu.au/links/ICoMusic

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.

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/

BioNLP 2007

Prague, Czech Republic
Date: 29 Jun 2007
URL: http://compbio.uchsc.edu/BioNLP2007

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

Prague, Czech Republic
Date: 29 Jun 2007
URL: http://www.issco.unige.ch/speechgram2007

ACL 2007 Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Acquisition

Prague, Czech Republic
Date: 29 Jun 2007
URL: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~alk23/cognitive/cognitive.htm

14th International Conference on Perception and Action

Yokohama, Japan
Date: 1 Jul 2007
to 6 Jul 2007 URL: http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/jsep/icpa14/index.html

3rd International Symposium on Politeness

University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Date: 2 Jul 2007
to 4 Jul 2007 URL: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/linguistics/conferences.html

WoLLIC'2007 14th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Date: 2 Jul 2007
to 5 Jul 2007 URL: http://www.cin.ufpe.br/~wollic/wollic2007/

Culture and Cognition

Budapest, Hungary
Date: 4 Jul 2007
to 12 Jul 2007 URL: http://www.sun.ceu.hu/3Courses/courses.php

IV07 11th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION VISUALISATION

ZURICH, Switzerland
Date: 4 Jul 2007
to 6 Jul 2007 URL: http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV07/

IMRF 2007 The International Multisensory Research Forum's 8th annual meeting

Sydney, Australia
Date: 4 Jul 2007
to 8 Jul 2007 URL: http://www.imrf.info/2007
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