HCSNet Update Newsletter Volume 3 Number 27

Tuesday, 10th July 2007
HCSNet Update
Tuesday 10 July 2007

Participant Spotlight

Eneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country

Research area: - Natural Language Processing

Main research interest is the semantic side of Natural Language Processing, that is, helping machines understand utterances. Specifically my focus is on both developing shallow semantic parsers capable of disambiguating word senses and semantic roles, and its complement, namely, building large semantic knowledge bases reusing existing knowledge and acquiring new one from corpora. I also study applications of such techniques in other intermediate tasks such as parsing and textual entailment, and final applications like Information Retrieval (including its cross-lingual and question-answering variants) and Machine Translation.

Contact:
Eneko Agirre
University of the Basque Country
Computer Science
email: e.agirre@ehu.es     www: ji.ehu.es/eneko

News

HCSNet International Visiting Speaker Program Seminars

HCSNet International Visiting Speaker, Dr Eneko Agirre from the University of the Basque Country, Spain, will be meeting with HCSNet participants and presenting a seminar entitled 'Enriching and using large-scale lexico-semantic resources' at the following locations during August 2007: University of Melbourne (1 August), University of Sydney (3 August), Macquarie University (7 August) and Flinders University (date to be confirmed). For further information, please visit http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/hcsnetevents/2007/agirre.

NGS07 Workshop - 19 and 20 July 2007

A reminder that the second HCSNet Workshop of the Next Generation Search Priority Area will be held on 19-20 July 2007 at Macquarie University. The program and abstracts are now available at http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/workshops/next-gen-search07.

ADCS 2007 - Call for Papers

The Twelfth Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS 2007), to be held in Melbourne on Monday, 10 December 2007, is an opportunity for researchers and practitioners in document management and information retrieval to meet and present their work. The symposium aims to cover all aspects of Document Computing - issues ranging from the fundamentals of document architectures and standards for markup, through storage, management, retrieval, authentication and workflow, to active and virtual documents. The symposium will emphasize both commercial and academic issues by encouraging a variety of submissions. Deadline for submissions: 8 October 2007; for more information, please see: http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/node/1717.

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.

Virtual Music: The Theater of the Ear

Sydney, Australia
Date: 11 Jul 2007
URL: http://marcs.uws.edu.au/links/amps/index.htm

Musical tension: Linking cognition and emotion

Sydney, Australia
Date: 16 Jul 2007
URL: http://marcs.uws.edu.au/about/getting_here.htm

Implications of a theory of tonal tension in music for cognitive theory

Sydney, Australia
Date: 17 Jul 2007
URL: http://www.maccs.mq.edu.au/news/seminars/abstract.htm?abstract=77

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.

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

Workshop on New Techniques for Consuming, Managing, and Manipulating Interactive Digital Media at Homeg

Taichung, Taiwan
Due date: 20 Jul 2007
URL: http://homepages.cwi.nl/~garcia/ism2007_workshop

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:

Sociolinguistic Issues in the Use of Language Analysis to Determine National Origin

Amsterdam, Netherlands
Due date: 1 Aug 2007
URL: http://www.taalstudio.nl

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/

SOLE'07 Seventh Conference on Language Engineering

Cairo, Egypt
Due date: 4 Aug 2007
URL: http://www.esole.org

Gestures: A Comparison of Signed and Spoken Languages

Bamberg, Germany
Due date: 5 Aug 2007
URL: http://www.dgfs.de/cgi-bin/dgfs.pl/main

IWSLT International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation

Trento, Italy
Due date: 5 Aug 2007
URL: http://iwslt07.itc.it

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.

Scripts, Non-scripts and (Pseudo)decipherment

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

Virtual Music: The Theater of the Ear

Sydney, Australia
Date: 11 Jul 2007
URL: http://marcs.uws.edu.au/links/amps/index.htm

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/

Musical tension: Linking cognition and emotion

Sydney, Australia
Date: 16 Jul 2007
URL: http://marcs.uws.edu.au/about/getting_here.htm

Implications of a theory of tonal tension in music for cognitive theory

Sydney, Australia
Date: 17 Jul 2007
URL: http://www.maccs.mq.edu.au/news/seminars/abstract.htm?abstract=77

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/

DiSS'07 Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech International Workshop

Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Date: 2 Aug 2007
to 4 Aug 2007 URL: http://www.disfluency.org

ParaLing'07 Paralinguistic Speech - Between Models and Data

Saarbrücken, Germany
Date: 2 Aug 2007
to 3 Aug 2007 URL: http://www.dfki.de/paraling07

ICPhS 2007 Satellite Workshop on Speaker Age

Saarbrücken, Germany
Date: 4 Aug 2007
URL: http://w5.cs.uni-sb.de/~cmueller/sa/

Interdisciplinary Workshop The Phonetics of Laughter

Saarbruecken, Germany
Date: 5 Aug 2007
URL: http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/conf/laughter-07/

Intonation Workshop on Intonational Phonology

Saarbrücken, Germany
Date: 5 Aug 2007
URL: http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/jun/intonation.htm

NDTTG 2007 New Directions in Type-theoretic Grammars

Dublin, Ireland
Date: 6 Aug 2007
to 10 Aug 2007 URL: http://let.uvt.nl/general/people/rmuskens/ndttg/

Workshop on Language, Games, and Evolution

Dublin, Ireland
Date: 6 Aug 2007
to 10 Aug 2007 URL: http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/lili/personen/cebert/LGE/

ESSLLI 2007 19TH EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL OF LOGIC, LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION

Dublin, Ireland
Date: 6 Aug 2007
to 17 Aug 2007 URL: https://www.cs.tcd.ie/esslli2007

ICPhS 2007 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences

Saarbrücken, Germany
Date: 6 Aug 2007
to 10 Aug 2007 URL: http://www.icphs2007.de

Music, Language and Movement

England, United Kingdom
Date: 6 Aug 2007
to 10 Aug 2007 URL: http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/Research/imhsd/SummerWorkshop2007/

CLT07 Conference on Language and Technology

Peshawar, Pakistan
Date: 7 Aug 2007
to 11 Aug 2007 URL: http://www.dcs.edu.pk/clt/
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