HCSNet Update Newsletter Volume 3 Number 30

Tuesday, 31st July 2007
HCSNet Update
Tuesday 31 July 2007

Participant Spotlight

Nathalie Colineau, CSIRO

Research area: Natural Language Processing - Human-Computer Interaction

I am interested in helping people find the information that will assist them in their tasks and in their decision making. This places my research at the intersection of Information Retrieval, User Modelling and Language Technology, in particular, Natural Language Generation. More specifically, I’m looking at providing users with understandable information appropriate to their needs and situation, i.e. organised, expressed and presented in such a way as to enable them to readily and effectively make use of the information. My approach is to develop and evaluate solutions from a whole-of-system perspective – considering the system’s benefits and costs in the context of its stakeholders, their goals and tasks, and the information sources that the system requires.

Contact:
Nathalie Colineau
CSIRO
ICT Centre
email: nathalie.colineau@csiro.au     www: www.ict.csiro.au/staff/Nathalie.Colineau/

News

SummerFest '07: Call for Speed Paper and Student Poster Submissions

This year's SummerFest will be held from 3-7 December at The University of New South Wales. We are currently calling for submissions for two components of SummerFest '07: the speed papers session and the student poster session. The student poster session is designed to help students get to know one another and to hear about research and hot topics in a range of disciplines. The poster session will feature plenty of food and drinks to keep the atmosphere lively, informal and social and along the way we hope you'll get to know your peers and receive useful feedback on your own research ideas. If you would like to participate in the student poster session please send a title and 200 word abstract by 24 September 2007. More details can be found on our website at http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/summerfest07/posters. The speed papers session is a fun, fast-paced way to get to know others at SummerFest. The speed paper concept is somewhat like speed dating - you get 4 slides and just 4 minutes to tell the assembled audience about a project you are already doing, or would like to do. Everyone in the audience has a form on which they can scribble relevant comments and feedback on your project. You then get to do the same for the other speed papers. If you would like to participate in the speed papers session please send a title and 200 word abstract by 24 September 2007. More details can be found on our website at http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/summerfest07/speedpapers. Travel subsidies* to attend SummerFest '07 will be available to individuals who present either a student poster or speed paper. If you require further information please contact Kym Buckley at HCSNet ky.buckley@uws.edu.au. We look forward to having your involvement in SummerFest '07.

* Travel subsidies will be available for Australian-based participants living outside of Sydney only.

Joint HCSNet-HxI Workshop on Human Issues in Interaction and Interactive Interfaces - CFP

HCSNet and HxI (http://www.hxi.org.au) are organising a joint workshop on Human Issues in Interaction and Interactive Interfaces to be held in Sydney on 13 and 14 September 2007. This workshop is designed to bring together researchers interested in a range of issues, with a focus on the non-technical, related to human-machine interaction and computer-mediated human-human interaction. A specific sub-theme will be mediating collaboration and community between humans in distributed environments, in particular as targetted by HxI's Bracetto project. The aim is to identify shared interests, understand different perspectives, and to take first steps towards developing future collaborations. For further details, including the Call for Participation, please visit http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/hcsnetevents/2007/hi4workshop.

HCSNet Member Search

We've updated the member search feature on the HCSNet home page (http://www.hcsnet.edu.au) to make it easier for you to find our other members. Search terms are matched against: research areas; research interests; departments, divisions and labs; and first and last names. This means that you can now find members within a specific field, look for people from particular institution, find anyone who has mentioned a certain obscure area in their interests, or simply find all members whose names are Gladys! Both the search matching and the results layout have been improved - give it a try and let us know what you think. If you've got any comments or feedback please send them to webmaster@hcsnet.edu.au.

NGS07 Workshop presentation slides and photos now available

Thank you again to participants in the Second HCSNet Workshop of the Next Generation Search Priority Area held on 19-20 July 2007 at Macquarie University. Presentation slides are now available at http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/nextgensearch07/abstracts and several photos are available here.

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.

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/

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

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

SOLE'07 Seventh Conference on Language Engineering

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

IWSLT International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation

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

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

Methodological Aspects of Intonation Research

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

Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces in Semantic Interaction

Nagoya, Japan
Due date: 24 Aug 2007
URL: http://www.slc.atr.jp/iwmisi/

AusGrid 2008 The 6th Australasian Symposium on Grid Computing and e-Research

Wollongong, Australia
Due date: 26 Aug 2007
URL: http://www.uow.edu.au/conferences/ACSW08/home.html

IUI08 ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

Canary Islands, Spain
Due date: 27 Aug 2007
URL:

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.

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/

The Sixth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context

Roskilde University, Denmark
Date: 20 Aug 2007
to 24 Aug 2007 URL: http://context-07.ruc.dk/

CTF07 Concept Types & Frames in Language: Cognition & Science

Duesseldorf, Germany
Date: 20 Aug 2007
to 22 Aug 2007 URL: http://phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/fff/ctf/

CoSMo 2007 Contextual Information in Semantic Space Models

Roskilde, Denmark
Date: 20 Aug 2007
URL: http://polorovereto.unitn.it/~baroni/beyond_words

Workshop on Contextualization in Human Tasks: Enriching of Actors

Denmark, Denmark
Date: 20 Aug 2007
to 24 Aug 2007 URL: http://www-poleia.lip6.fr/~jbrezillon/CHUT-07

CIR'07 2nd International Workshop on Context-Based Information Retrieval

Roskilde, Denmark
Date: 20 Aug 2007
to 21 Aug 2007 URL: http://wwwsi.supelec.fr/bld/CIR-07/

AMLaP 2007 Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing

Turku, Finland
Date: 24 Aug 2007
to 27 Aug 2007 URL: http://amlap.utu.fi

INTERSPEECH 2007

Antwerp, Belgium
Date: 27 Aug 2007
to 31 Aug 2007 URL: http://www.interspeech2007.org

NDCL-2 2nd UK Cognitive Linguistics Association Conference

Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Date: 27 Aug 2007
to 30 Aug 2007 URL: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/encap/ncdl/index.html

SLT4LRL Speech/language technology for less-resourced languages

Antwerp, Belgium
Date: 27 Aug 2007
URL: http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/saltmil/history/interspeech2007/

ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2007

University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: 28 Aug 2007
to 31 Aug 2007 URL: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~doceng07/

STB-ASR Structure-Based and Template-Based ASR

Antwerp, Belgium
Date: 28 Aug 2007
to 31 Aug 2007 URL: http://lands.let.ru.nl/~strik/IS2007-Special_Session-STB_ASR.html

FDIA 2007 The BCS-IRSG Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access

Scotland, United Kingdom
Date: 28 Aug 2007
to 29 Aug 2007 URL: http://irsg.bcs.org/fdia2007.php

ICGL8 8th International Conference on Greek Linguistics

Ioannina, Greece
Date: 29 Aug 2007
to 3 Sep 2007 URL: http://users.uoi.gr/linguist/en/ICGL8.html
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