HCSNet Update Newsletter Volume 3 Number 25

Tuesday, 26th June 2007
HCSNet Update
Tuesday 26 June 2007

Participant Spotlight

Brett Baker, University of New England

Research area: Linguistics - Phonology

My primary interest is the interface of morphology with other grammatical and conceptual systems: phonology and semantics. Most of my work in this area has involved fieldwork on Australian languages of Southeastern Arnhem Land, which are highly polysynthetic but have largely agglutinative ('lego-like') word structures. I am particularly interested in the differences between morphology which is accessible to speakers and morphology which is not, and how this plays out in testable ways: in phonology, prosody, compositionality, productivity, and isolability. My paper with Mark Harvey from the Australian Journal of Linguistics (2003, vol 23, 1) explored this area, using some of the argumentation from my PhD work (due to be published by CSLI later this year). I have also been interested in discourse semantics and pragmatics for many years, and am currently engaged in work with Ilana Mushin (UQ), Rod Gardner (Griffith) and Lesley Stirling (Melbourne) exploring this topic, again mostly in Australian languages.

Contact:
Brett Baker
University of New England
Linguistics/School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
email: bbaker2@une.edu.au     www: www-personal.une.edu.au/~bbaker2/

News

New Webmaster at HCSNet

Welcome to Ben Phelan, the new HCSNet Webmaster. Ben's background is in web technologies and VR and he has particular interest in online communities, social networks and emotion engines for virtual humans. Over the coming months we'll be introducing some new features to the HCSNet website so stay tuned for more details! And if you have any suggestions or feedback for the website please send these to Ben at webmaster@hcsnet.edu.au.

2007 HCSNet Human Communication Disorders Workshop

We're pleased to announce details about the HCSNet Workshop Tough Problems in Human Communication Disorders which will be held on 15-16 September 2007 at The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Brisbane. In the assessment, treatment, and delivery of services to people with communication disorders, new technologies and research have added to existing models and methods, but serious limitations remain in the use of enabling technologies and approaches. The aims of the 1.5 day workshop are to address current or enduring problems, themes, and barriers to communication disorder management and to explore potential solutions through interdisciplinary collaboration. A series of presentations and panel discussions from industry, academic, and clinical leaders will present the latest research in speech pathology, audiology and sonics, computer science, speech science, and human machine interface, whilst highlighting problems that have impeded progress in managing paediatric and adult communication problems. Problem-based group discussions will address these issues in an attempt to facilitate interdisciplinary partnerships and future linkages amongst the participants, and move towards collaborative avenues of resolution. The Keynote Speaker is Professor Leslie Gonzalez-Rothi from The University of Florida. Workshop Contacts: Professor Helen Chenery h.chenery@uq.edu.au or Dr Elizabeth Cardell e.cardell@uq.edu.au.

NGS07 Workshop Program and Abstracts now available on website

The Program and Abstracts for the second HCSNet Workshop of the Next Generation Search Priority Area to be held on 19-20 July 2007 at Macquarie University are now available at http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/workshops/next-gen-search07. A reminder that the Keynote Presentation will be given by Brett Poole, Head of Search of Yahoo!7.

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.

International Intersensory Research Symposium: Perception and Action

Sydney, Australia
Date: 3 Jul 2007
URL: http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/hcsnetevents/2007/pasymposium

Airport talks: language practices and ideologies in a "globalized" institution

Sydney, Australia
Date: 10 Jul 2007
URL: http://www.ict.csiro.au/HAIL/

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.

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/

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

Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems

Antwerp, Belgium
Due date: 14 Jul 2007
URL: http://www.yrrsds.org

SRSL7 International Workshop on the Semantic Representation of Spoken Language

Salamanca, Spain
Due date: 15 Jul 2007
URL: http://www.dfki.de/~mpla/SRSL/

(DRR) 2007 15th Document Recognition and Retrieval Conference

San Jose, CA, United States
Due date: 16 Jul 2007
URL: http://fens.sabanciuniv.edu/drr2008/eng/

Behavioural research in chamber music: psychological approaches to preparation and performances

Manchester, United Kingdom
Due date: 16 Jul 2007
URL: http://www.rncm.ac.uk/media/pdfs/Behavioural_research_conference.pdf

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.

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/

International Intersensory Research Symposium: Perception and Action

Sydney, Australia
Date: 3 Jul 2007
URL: http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/hcsnetevents/2007/pasymposium

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

CLIP-2007 CROSS-LANGUAGE INFORMATION PROCESSING

Camogli (Genova, 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

Pragmatic Markers

Göteborg, Sweden
Date: 9 Jul 2007
to 13 Jul 2007 URL:

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

Airport talks: language practices and ideologies in a "globalized" institution

Sydney, Australia
Date: 10 Jul 2007
URL: http://www.ict.csiro.au/HAIL/

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

TILR Toward the Interoperability of Language Resources

California, United States
Date: 13 Jul 2007
to 15 Jul 2007 URL: http://linguistlist.org/tilr/

GEAF07 Grammar Engineering across Frameworks 2007

Stanford, CA, United States
Date: 13 Jul 2007
to 15 Jul 2007 URL: http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~thking/GEAF07.html

UniVar Linguistic Universals and Language Variation

Hamburg, Germany
Date: 13 Jul 2007
to 14 Jul 2007 URL: http://www.uni-hamburg.de/fachbereiche-einrichtungen/sfb538/kolloquien.html

ICLC 2007 The 10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference

Krakow, Poland
Date: 15 Jul 2007
to 20 Jul 2007 URL: http://www.iclc2007.pl

Metaphors of Love and Anger: Implications for the Conceptualisation of Self

Krakow, Poland
Date: 15 Jul 2007
to 20 Jul 2007 URL:

Representation of Actions, States and Events in Classification Systems

Graz, Austria
Date: 15 Jul 2007
to 20 Jul 2007 URL:

Cognitive Sociolinguistics

Krakow, Poland
Date: 15 Jul 2007
to 20 Jul 2007 URL: http://wwwling.arts.kuleuven.be/qlvl/cs.htm

IPT - EGVE 2007 13th Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments

Weimar, Germany
Date: 15 Jul 2007
to 18 Jul 2007 URL: http://www.uni-weimar.de/medien/vr/ipt-egve

MAPS'07 2nd International Workshop on Multimodal And Pervasive Services

Istanbul, Turkey
Date: 15 Jul 2007
to 20 Jul 2007 URL: http://www.irpps.cnr.it/eventi/maps07.htm

ISFC 2007 34th International Systemic Functional Congress

Odense, Denmark
Date: 16 Jul 2007
to 20 Jul 2007 URL: http://www.humaniora.sdu.dk/isfc2007

ELSNET Summer School

Belfast, United Kingdom
Date: 16 Jul 2007
to 27 Jul 2007 URL: http://www.cs.qub.ac.uk/elsnet2007/

CLS 2007 Child Language Seminar 2007

Berkshire, United Kingdom
Date: 18 Jul 2007
to 20 Jul 2007 URL: http://www.reading.ac.uk/cls/cls2007.html

NGS07 Second HCSNet Next Generation Search Workshop

Sydney, Australia
Date: 19 Jul 2007
to 20 Jul 2007 URL: http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/workshops/next-gen-search07

HPSG 2007 14th International Conference on HPSG

Stanford, CA, United States
Date: 20 Jul 2007
to 22 Jul 2007 URL: http://hpsg.stanford.edu/HPSG07/

IWAPR 2007 International Workshop on Advances in Pattern Recognition

Plymouth, United Kingdom
Date: 21 Jul 2007
to 23 Jul 2007 URL: http://www.iwapr.org

CAASL-2 Computational Approaches to Arabic Script Languages

California, United States
Date: 21 Jul 2007
to 22 Jul 2007 URL: http://www.zoorna.org/CAASL2

HPSG 2007 14th International Conference on HPSG

Stanford, CA, United States
Date: 21 Jul 2007
to 22 Jul 2007 URL: http://hpsg.stanford.edu/HPSG07/

SIGIR 2007 The 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date: 23 Jul 2007
to 27 Jul 2007 URL: http://www.sigir2007.org

LACUS Forum 34, 2007 Linguistic Association of Canada and the US, 2007

Kentucky, United States
Date: 24 Jul 2007
to 28 Jul 2007 URL: http://www.rice.edu/lacus/
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