HCSNet Update Newsletter Volume 3 Number 23

Tuesday, 12th June 2007
HCSNet Update
Tuesday 12 June 2007

Participant Spotlight

Philip Rose, Australian National University

Research area: Linguistics - Phonetics

My research is in two main areas: The Phonetics and Phonology of Tone, and Forensic Speaker Recognition. Since 1982 I have researched how the linguistic category of tone in varieties of Chinese, Thai and Tibetan varies cross-linguistically at the acoustic-phonetic and physiological levels. Examples of this research are: The first demonstration that tonal F0 is produced in different ways (i.e. with different degrees of pulmonic involvement) in different tone languages. The development and refinement of the first normalisation techniques for the linguistic-phonetic comparison of tonal acoustics. The first demonstration of the existence of an exotic aryepiglottic phonation type in a Chinese dialect. The first investigation of tonal aerodynamics. The first description and analysis of Tibetan Spelling Chant (the chant Tibetan Lamas use to spell words in the Buddhist Canon). Currently I am working on a two-volume book with Dr Zhu Xiaonong which describes acoustically the tones and tone sandhi in the Chinese Wu Dialects in the whole province of Zhejiang. These dialects show the most complicated tonal behaviour in the world. Since 1994 I have been researching forensic speaker recognition, and doing FSR case-work. My book 'Forensic Speaker Identification' addressed the correct evaluation of forensic speech-science evidence within the proper Bayesian framework, and my book 'The Technical Comparison of Forensic Voice Samples' is the legal reference for FSR. I am currently researching the application of multivariate likelihood ratios in FSR; how to bring FSR in line with evidence evaluation in DNA profiling; and how to combine automatic and traditonal methods of FSR within the Bayesian framework (this last is a four year ARC-funded project).

Contact:
Philip Rose
Australian National University
Linguistics (Arts) School of Language Studies
email: philip.rose@anu.edu.au     www: arts.anu.edu.au/languages/linguistics/Phil_Rose.asp

News

HCSNet Summer School 2007

We are very pleased to bring you advance details of this year’s HCSNet Summer School. The Summer School will be held on Monday 3rd and Tuesday 4th December at the University of New South Wales and will form part of our annual SummerFest conference. We have an exciting line up of presenters this year, including Richard Parncutt (Evolution of Music), Philip Rose (Forensic Speech Science), Roger Dean (Musical Interfaces), Steve Cassidy (Introductory Corpus Linguistics), and our very own Robert Dale (Text Generation). More information on the courses we’ll be offering this year can be found at http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/summerfest07/summerschool. Registration for the Summer School will open on Monday 17th September and participation is open to all Australian and International graduate and senior undergraduate students, and established and early career researchers in universities and industry with an interest in Human Communication Science. See you there!

CSIRO/HCSNet Seminar by Dr Barbara Kelly

Dr Barbara Kelly from the Department of Linguistics at the University of Melbourne recently presented a CSIRO/HCSNet seminar entitled "Linguistics and the development of community in computer mediated conversation" in the CSIRO ICT Centre at Macquarie University. Dr Kelly discussed her analysis of online conversations over a six-month period from different message boards occurring within a large multi-national organisation, particularly focussing on the use of non-standard written linguistic features which suggest more casual, face-to-face-like interactions. Presentation slides and an audio recording of the seminar are available at: http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/hcsnetevents/2007/kelly.

Thinking Head Project Positions available in MARCS Auditory Laboratories, UWS

MARCS Auditory Laboratories at the University of Western Sydney has two positions available in the Thinking Head Project: Senior Software Engineer (Lead Programmer) and Programmer. The Senior Software Engineer position offers a rare combination of hands-on software engineering and project management. Software engineering will involve development and maintenance of a Thinking Head software platform, and quality control and integration of components into the platform. Project Management will involve management of the process of system integration and of activities in the Computing Team. The Programmer position will be concerned with writing code for modules, and most importantly, integrating these plus off-the-shelf modules, and modules written by other members of the team into a seamless working Thinking Head system that incorporates e.g., real-time sound and vision processing in clean or noisy environments, speech and speaker recognition, facial feature tracking, architecture for fusion of various input, reasoning, dialog generation, speech synthesis, and facial animation generated via a large scale 3D face database of the Thinking Head. Closing date: 29 June 2007; for more information, please visit: http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/jobs/2007/marcs.

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.

Genre and NLP Towards Genre-Enabled Search Engines

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

RANLP 2007 Multi-source Multilingual Information Extraction and Summarization

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

Workshop on NLP for Educational Resources

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

CALP'07 Computer-Aided Language Processing

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

Persistent Conversation Minitrack - HICSS 41

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

Workshop on Computational Phonology

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

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.

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/

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

Workshop on Speech in Mobile and Pervasive Environments

Singapore, Singapore
Due date: 1 Jul 2007
URL: http://research.ihost.com/SiMPE/index.html

Inaugural International Conference on Music Communication Science

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

ICTIR 2007 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE THEORY OF INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

Budapest, Hungary
Due date: 10 Jul 2007
URL: http://www.infota.org/ictir2007/index.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.

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

Current Issues in Sign Language Research

Cologne, Germany
Date: 4 Jul 2007
to 6 Jul 2007 URL: http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/englisch/adone/SL_Workshop/

3rd Seoul Conference on Discourse and Cognitive Linguistics

Seoul, Korea, Republic Of
Date: 6 Jul 2007
to 7 Jul 2007 URL: http://discog.com

Variation, Gradience and Frequency in Phonology

Stanford, CA, United States
Date: 6 Jul 2007
to 8 Jul 2007 URL: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/linguistics/linginst/nsf-workshop/workshop-july

CLIP-2007 Computational Linguistics to Computational Humour

Camogli, Italy
Date: 7 Jul 2007
to 10 Jul 2007 URL: http://clip.disi.unige.it/clip2007

The Appropriation of Media Texts

Göteborg, Sweden
Date: 8 Jul 2007
to 13 Jul 2007 URL:

10th International Pragmatics Conference

Göteborg, Sweden
Date: 8 Jul 2007
to 13 Jul 2007 URL: http://ipra.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=*CONFERENCE2006&n=1295

ASCS 2007 8th Australasian Society for Cognitive Science Conference

Adelaide, Australia
Date: 9 Jul 2007
to 12 Jul 2007 URL: http://www.arts.adelaide.edu.au/humanities/ascs2007/

ESPP 15 European Society for Philosophy and Psychology

Geneva, Switzerland
Date: 9 Jul 2007
to 12 Jul 2007 URL: http://www.unige.ch/lettres/philo/espp07.html

Scripts, Non-scripts and (Pseudo)decipherment

California, United States
Date: 11 Jul 2007
URL: http://compling.ai.uiuc.edu/2007Workshop/

IBRO WORLD CONGRESS OF NEUROSCIENCE

MELBOURNE, Australia
Date: 12 Jul 2007
to 17 Jul 2007 URL: www.ibro2007.org

CCCT 2007 The 5th International Conference on Computing, Communications and Control Technologies

Florida, United States
Date: 12 Jul 2007
to 15 Jul 2007 URL: http://www.info-cyber.org/ccct2007
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