HCSNet Update Newsletter Volume 3 Number 26

Sunday, 1st July 2007
HCSNet Update
Monday 2 July 2007

Lab Spotlight

Centre for Health Informatics, University of New South Wales

In the post-genome era, the next healthcare revolution is in information and systems, or informatics. The Centre for Health Informatics (CHI), is Australia's largest academic research group in this emerging discipline. As part of the University of New South Wales Faculty of Medicine, the Centre's work is internationally recognized for its contributions in the development of intelligent search systems to support evidence-based healthcare, developing evaluation methodologies for IT, and in understanding how communication shapes the safety and quality of health care delivery. At present, there is a diverse research program at the Centre designed to impact healthcare in the twenty-first century. This includes a program in biosurveillance research which aims to develop computational methods for optimising risk assessment to outbreaks of communicable diseases, and a program in health system simulation for modelling the impact of health policy changes. In addition, the Centre has recently broadened the scope of research to include a program in biomedical natural language processing. This addresses the growing need for better technology tools for information gathering in the Internet Age particularly for bioscientists and clinicians. Research activities focus on information extraction and text summarisation of the scientific literature in biomedicine, and of clinical records.

Details:
Centre for Health Informatics
University of New South Wales
Contact: Grace Chung (gigigraceyc@gmail.com)     
www: www.chi.unsw.edu.au

News

Just Announced: Forensic Speech Science Conference

We are very pleased to announce details of an upcoming HCSNet conference on Forensic Speech Sciences. The FSS conference will be held as part of SummerFest '07 and will take place on Thursday 6th December. The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for the interchange of information from speech scientists and the legal profession, and raise public and press awareness of issues regarding forensic speech science. We already have three well-renown international keynote speakers confirmed for the conference and are presently finalising details for a further two keynote speakers. Confirmed speakers include Dr Stefan Gfroerer of the European Network of Forensic Science Institutes, Dr Peter French of JP French and Associates, and Dr Joaquin Rodriguez-Gonzalez from the Department of Data Processing Engineering in Madrid. This is going to be an exciting and intriguing conference…you don’t want to miss it! More details will be available over the coming months so please stayed tuned.

HCSNet Events Database

Just a reminder that our website hosts an events database at http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/aboutevents in which we maintain information about conferences and workshops of potential interest to participants in the network. Our website also serves as a repository for information about HCSNet-sponsored events and where possible, we try to make available via the website the presentations made at workshops and seminars, and any other material of relevance. For more information, please visit http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/hcsnetevents.

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.

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

IJCNLP-08 The Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing

Hyderabad, India
Due date: 31 Jul 2007
URL: http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/acl2007/styles/

International Workshop: Speech and Body in Interaction

Berlin, Germany
Due date: 31 Jul 2007
URL: http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.html

The Role of Phonology in Reading Acquisition

Bamberg, Germany
Due date: 31 Jul 2007
URL:

OntoLex07 From Text to Knowledge: The Lexicon/Ontology Interface

Busan, Korea, Dem People's Rep
Due date: 1 Aug 2007
URL: http://olp.dfki.de/OntoLex07/

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.

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

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

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/

Corpus Linguistics 2007

Birmingham, United Kingdom
Date: 27 Jul 2007
to 30 Jul 2007 URL: http://www.corpus.bham.ac.uk/conference2007/index.htm

SIGIR 2007 Workshop Improving Web retrieval for non-English queries

Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date: 27 Jul 2007
URL: http://rea.teimes.gr/~lazarinf/ir7w/

Searching Spontaneous Conversational Speech

Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date: 27 Jul 2007
URL: http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/sscs

WISI Web Information-Seeking and Interaction

Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date: 27 Jul 2007
URL: http://research.microsoft.com/~ryenw/wisi

IRGM 2007 Information Retrieval and Applications of Graphical Models

Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date: 27 Jul 2007
URL: http://irgm.bpiwowar.net

CML-2007 Cognitive Modeling in Linguistics - 2007

Sofia, Bulgaria
Date: 28 Jul 2007
to 3 Aug 2007 URL: http://www.cml.msisa.ru

SMPC 2007 Society for Music Perception and Cognition

Quebec, Canada
Date: 30 Jul 2007
to 3 Aug 2007 URL: http://www.musicperception.org

PsychoCompLA-2007 Psychocomputational Models of Human Language Acquisition

Tennessee, United States
Date: 1 Aug 2007
URL: http://www.colag.cs.hunter.cuny.edu/psychocomp/
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