HCSNet Update Newsletter Volume 3 Number 28

Thursday, 19th July 2007
HCSNet Update
Thursday 19 July 2007

Participant Spotlight

David Copland, University of Queensland

Research area: Language Neuroscience - Speech Pathology

I am interested in the brain mechanisms underpinning normal language, language impairments, and recovery of language after neurological injury. I conduct psycholinguistic studies in adults with neurogenic communication disorders, and investigate the influence of pharmacological agents on language processing, word learning, and language treatment after stroke. Some techniques used include functional MRI, event-related potentials, and divided visual field tasks.

Contact:
David Copland
University of Queensland
email: d.copland@uq.edu.au     www: www.uq.edu.au/solutions/researcher/coplandda.html

News

Second HCSNet Workshop on the Use of Vision in HCI (VisHCI2007)

Following the success of VisHCI2006 and the feedback the organisers received from participants, the HCSNet Workshop on the Use of Vision in HCI will happen again in 2007! This year's VisHCI workshop will be held as a Tutorial Day on Sunday, 2 December 2007. VisHCI2007 aims to bring together researchers, practitioners and students from a number of disciplines related to using vision and visual evidence in human-computer interaction (HCI). Visual communication - such as hand and body gestures, facial expressions, auditory-visual speech, sign language etc - is a major communication channel for humans. The availability of low-cost camera technology has led to an increased use of visual evidence in HCI. Relevant disciplines include computer science, engineering, IT, psychology and spoken language research. For more information, please visit http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/hcsnetevents/2007/vishciworkshop.

HCSNet Early Career Researcher Placement Award for 2007

We are pleased to announce that the recipient of the Inaugural HCSNet Early Career Researcher Placement Award is Dr Freya Bailes from MARCS Auditory Laboratories, UWS. The Award is designed to provide opportunities for new researchers to build professional networks and high-level research collaborations at another HCSNet Research Laboratory, Centre, Group, Department or Industry Facility in Australia. Dr Bailes will visit PARADISEC, the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures, and collaborate with Associate Professor Linda Barwick at the University of Sydney. The visit will primarily involve the analysis of song recordings from the 'Endangered Music and Languages' project and it is hoped that these recordings can be used to test a number of predictions about what is retained in the communication of one 'same' orally transmitted song by separate performers (such as meaningful timbres, particular melodic contours, and larger structural forms).

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.

A comparative study of spoken and sung voice in performance

Sydney, Australia
Date: 3 Aug 2007
URL: http://marcs.uws.edu.au/links/amps/index.htm

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.

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

The Role of Phonology in Reading Acquisition

Bamberg, Germany
Due date: 31 Jul 2007
URL:

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

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

Methodological Aspects of Intonation Research

Bamberg, Germany
Due date: 15 Aug 2007
URL: http://linguistlist.org/

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.

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

A comparative study of spoken and sung voice in performance

Sydney, Australia
Date: 3 Aug 2007
URL: http://marcs.uws.edu.au/links/amps/index.htm

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/

SSMT-2007 The Third Symposium on Statistical Machine Translation

Harbin, China
Date: 12 Aug 2007
to 13 Aug 2007 URL: http://mitlab.hit.edu.cn/ssmt2007.html

Exemplar-Based Models of Language Acquisition and Use

Dublin, Ireland
Date: 13 Aug 2007
to 17 Aug 2007 URL: http://www.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~davec/workshop.htm

Quantifier Modification

Dublin, Ireland
Date: 13 Aug 2007
to 17 Aug 2007 URL: http://www.let.uu.nl/~Rick.Nouwen/qm/

CGIV07 4th International conference on Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualization

Bangkok, Thailand
Date: 13 Aug 2007
to 16 Aug 2007 URL: http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/cgiv07/

CIM07 Third Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology

Tallinn, Estonia
Date: 15 Aug 2007
to 19 Aug 2007 URL: http://gewi.uni-graz.at/~cim04

Fourth Workshop on Textual Case-Based Reasoning

Belfast, Ireland
Date: 15 Aug 2007
URL: http://www.iccbr.org/iccbr07/

Second International Conference on Iranian Linguistics

Hamburg, Germany
Date: 17 Aug 2007
to 19 Aug 2007 URL: http://www.linguistik.uni-kiel.de/icil2/

ESP07 Embodied sentence processing

Saarland, Germany
Date: 17 Aug 2007
to 19 Aug 2007 URL: http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/conf/esp07/
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