HCSNet Update Newsletter Volume 3 Number 31

Tuesday, 7th August 2007
HCSNet Update
Tuesday 7 August 2007

Lab Spotlight

Sonic Communications Research Group , University of Canberra

The Sonic Communications Research Group is an interdisciplinary group of researchers and educators working with sound as a medium for creative communication. The group takes a practice-led research approach that seeks to crossover and integrate theory from media studies, design, information science, psychology and the creative arts. Our special expertise includes sonification, sonic-writing, haptic-audio, auditory interfaces, generative sound, music imagery, music cognition, auditory perception, and sound art, theory and practice. Current projects include research on the auditory streaming of data structures, the sonification of the financial markets, gestalt principles for multimodal interfaces, automatic classification of percussion timbres, perception of transitions in computer music, and an augmented reality interface for composing algorithmic music.

Details:
Sonic Communications Research Group
University of Canberra
Contact: Stephen Barrass (Stephen.Barrass@canberra.edu.au)     
www: www.scrg.org.au

News

SummerFest '07: Collaboration and Communicative Tools for Distributed Communities Workshop

The explosion of online communities has given rise to exciting new research areas in communication. This workshop aims to bring together people interested in current issues at the intersection of collaboration in online communities and those working in tool design & development across different types of communities. Important questions to be covered in this workshop include: How do we build and maintain socially intelligent communities online? What is the role of collaborative tools in the success of online interactions and communities? How can the development of online interactive tools support persistence, moderation, leadership, and ease of communication? And how are these tools employed by users? The workshop will be held 6-7 December at UNSW and a call for papers will be distributed later this week.

SummerFest '07: Forensic Speaker Recognition Workshop

How well can you identify the voice of a criminal? In our technological age, more and more offenders are being recorded while committing crimes, and expert opinion is being increasingly sought in the legal process as to whether two or more recordings are from the same speaker. The way forensic speaker recognition is done in real life departs considerably from its depiction in popular TV crime shows like Law and Order and Crime Scene Investigation. The last ten years have witnessed exciting new developments in Forensic Speaker Recognition and this workshop brings together for the first time leading practitioners and experts to present state-of-the-art work in Forensic Speaker Recognition from several perspectives, including examples from real case-work. The workshop will be held 6-7 December at UNSW and a call for papers will be distributed later this week.

HCSNet International Visiting Speaker Program

Dr Eneko Agirre (University of the Basque Country), an HCSNet International Visiting Speaker, will present the fourth of his seminars on this visit at Flinders University on 31 August 2007. The title of the seminar is 'Enriching and using large-scale lexico-semantic resources'; for more information, please visit http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/hcsnetevents/2007/agirre.

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.

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:

CIL 18 Workshop on Speech Sciences in Linguistics

Seoul, Korea, Republic Of
Due date: 31 Aug 2007
URL: http://www.cil18.org/workshop/workshop_04.htm

Cand/orSI (CIL18) Workshop on Contrastiveness and/or Scalar Implicatures

Seoul, Korea, Republic Of
Due date: 31 Aug 2007
URL: http://www.cil18.org

CISA Contrastive Information Structure Analysis

Wuppertal, Germany
Due date: 31 Aug 2007
URL: http://www.cisa-2008.de

XPRAG 2007 Experimental Pragmatics 2007

Berlin, Germany
Due date: 31 Aug 2007
URL: http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/xprag

FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on GLOBAL INTEROPERABILITY FOR LANGUAGE RESOURCES

City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Due date: 31 Aug 2007
URL: http://icgl.ctl.cityu.edu.hk/

1st International University of Sydney Free Linguistics Conference

Sydney, Australia
Due date: 31 Aug 2007
URL: http://conferences.arts.usyd.edu.au/index.php?cf=14

TLT 2007 Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories

Bergen, Norway
Due date: 1 Sep 2007
URL: http://tlt07.uib.no

DGfS 2008 - AG 2 Human Universals as Constraints on Language Diversity

Bamberg, Germany
Due date: 1 Sep 2007
URL: http://www.dgfs.de/cgi-bin/dgfs.pl/main

Cognitive Approaches to Second Language Acquisition

Landau, Germany
Due date: 1 Sep 2007
URL: http://www.uni-landau.de/anglistik/LAUD/index.htm

AIRS 2008 Fourth Asia Information Retrieval Symposium

Harbin, China
Due date: 1 Sep 2007
URL: http://ir.hit.edu.cn/airs2008

AC2007 Sixteenth Amsterdam Colloquium

Amsterdam, Netherlands
Due date: 1 Sep 2007
URL: http://www.illc.uva.nl/AC2007/

ALTW 2007 Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2007

Melbourne, Australia
Due date: 3 Sep 2007
URL: http://www.alta.asn.au/events/altw2007

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.

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

AVSP 2007 Auditory-Visual Speech Processing

Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands
Date: 31 Aug 2007
to 3 Sep 2007 URL: http://foap.uvt.nl/avsp2007

Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems

Antwerp, Belgium
Date: 1 Sep 2007
URL: http://www.yrrsds.org

SIGDIAL 2007 8th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue

Antwerp, Belgium
Date: 1 Sep 2007
to 2 Sep 2007 URL: http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/workshop8

19th International Congress on Acoustics

Madrid, Spain
Date: 2 Sep 2007
to 7 Sep 2007 URL: http://www.ica2007madrid.org

CHAA-07 Communication Between Human and Artificial Agents

Silicon Valley, United States
Date: 2 Sep 2007
to 5 Sep 2007 URL: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~ckemke/CHAA-07/

TIR-07 4th International Workshop on Text-Based Information Retrieval

Regensburg, Germany
Date: 3 Sep 2007
to 7 Sep 2007 URL: http://www.aisearch.de/tir-07

L3 5th International Conference on Third Language Acquisition and Multilingualism

Scotland, United Kingdom
Date: 3 Sep 2007
to 5 Sep 2007 URL: http://www.ioe.stir.ac.uk/L3conference/

An International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE

Plzeò (Pilsen), Czech Republic
Date: 3 Sep 2007
to 7 Sep 2007 URL: http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2007

AFLS Symposium

Opal Coast, France
Date: 3 Sep 2007
to 5 Sep 2007 URL: http://www.afls.net

GALA 2007 Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition 2007

Barcelona, Spain
Date: 6 Sep 2007
to 8 Sep 2007 URL: http://www.gala2007.uab.es/
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