HCSNet Update Newsletter Volume 3 Number 34

Tuesday, 28th August 2007
HCSNet Update
Tuesday 28 August 2007

Participant Spotlight

Alexandra Uitdenbogerd, RMIT University

Research area: Information Retrieval - Music Information Retrieval

My research interests largely revolve around information retrieval for specific applications. My main topic is music information retrieval, in which I examine techniques for retrieving music from a collection, given music queries such as melody fragments, chord sequences, or audio examples for stylistic and mood matches. Related to this topic is my interest in recommender system technology, in which different types of evidence (ratings, demographic data, audio similarity) are combined to best recommend new music to users. My other main interest is computer-assisted language learning. Within this field I'm interested in techniques for building tools that make use of the web as a corpus for recommending reading (readability), and for presenting concordances that represent language usage.

Contact:
Alexandra Uitdenbogerd
RMIT University
CS&IT
email: sandrau@rmit.edu.au     www: www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~alu

News

HCSNet Workshop on Hearing Prostheses: Call for Papers and Participation

To be held on 14 November 2007 at Rydges World Square Hotel, Sydney, this workshop will provide a venue for those interested in the development of hearing prostheses and the issues surrounding their use, with an emphasis on bringing together the technical and practical. We welcome participation from those interested in deafness, hearing impairment, hearing and hearing prostheses from both academia and industry. For more information, please visit: http://www.hcsn et.edu.au/hcsnetevents/2007/hpworkshop.

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

A reminder that the HCSNet-HxI Workshop on Human Issues in Interaction and Interactive Interfaces will be held at the Australian Technology Park, 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. Further details are available at: http://www.hcs net.edu.au/hcsnetevents/2007/hi4workshop.

HCSNet Workshop: Tough Problems in Human Communication Disorders

To be held at the University of Queensland on 15 September 2007, this workshop will bring together researchers, managers and industry leaders to address current or enduring problems, themes, and barriers to communication disorder management. A series of 20-30 minute presentations will present the latest research in speech pathology, audiology, service delivery, and technology whilst highlighting problems that have impeded progress in managing adult and paediatric communication problems. There will be a keynote presentation by Professor Leslie Gonzalez Rothi, University of Florida. For more information, please visit: http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/hcsnetevents/2007/hcdworkshop.

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.

CISA Contrastive Information Structure Analysis

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

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/

XPRAG 2007 Experimental Pragmatics 2007

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

Language Engineering for Low-Density Languages

Batumi, Georgia
Due date: 31 Aug 2007
URL: http://ilit.umbc.edu/ASI

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

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

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/

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

TLT 2007 Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories

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

ALTW 2007 Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2007

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

ACM SAC 2008 Special Track on Information Access and Retrieval

Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil
Due date: 8 Sep 2007
URL: www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2008/

HOWL 4th Hopkins Workshop on Language: Grammar in Cognition

Baltimore, MD, United States
Due date: 14 Sep 2007
URL: http://mind.cog.jhu.edu/howl-4/

Cognitive Approaches to Second Language Acquisition

Landau, Germany
Due date: 15 Sep 2007
URL: http://www.uni-landau.de/anglistik/LAUD/index.htm

Methods XIII 13th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology

Leeds, United Kingdom
Due date: 21 Sep 2007
URL: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/english/methods.htm

HCSNet SummerFest '07

Sydney, Australia
Due date: 24 Sep 2007
URL: http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/summerfest07

Bringing together the science and practice of hearing prostheses

Sydney, Australia
Due date: 24 Sep 2007
URL: www.hcsnet.edu.au

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.

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/

TMI-07 The Eleventh Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation

Skövde, Sweden
Date: 7 Sep 2007
to 9 Sep 2007 URL: http://www.computing.dcu.ie/~away/TMI-07/

Workshop on Speech in Mobile and Pervasive Environments

Singapore, Singapore
Date: 9 Sep 2007
URL: http://research.ihost.com/SiMPE/index.html

MT SUMMIT XI

Copenhagen, Denmark
Date: 10 Sep 2007
to 14 Sep 2007 URL: http://www.eamt.org

UCNLG+MT Using Corpora for NLG: Language Generation and MT

Copenhagen, Denmark
Date: 11 Sep 2007
URL: http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/ucnlg/

MT Summit XI Workshop on Patent Translation

Copenhagen, Denmark
Date: 11 Sep 2007
URL: http://www.aamt.info/patent/

IDP07 Symposium on Discourse Prosody Interfaces

Geneva, Switzerland
Date: 12 Sep 2007
to 14 Sep 2007 URL: http://idp07.unige.ch

International Conference on Adjectives

Lille, France
Date: 13 Sep 2007
to 15 Sep 2007 URL: http://stl.recherche.univ-lille3.fr

International Workshop on What it Means to Communicate

Porto, Portugal
Date: 13 Sep 2007
URL: http://www.his.sunderland.ac.uk/nestcom/workshop/

FSMNLP 2007 Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing

Potsdam, Germany
Date: 14 Sep 2007
to 16 Sep 2007 URL: http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/fsmnlp2007

6th International Workshop on Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing

Potsdam, Germany
Date: 14 Sep 2007
to 16 Sep 2007 URL: http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/fsmnlp2007/

SoA8 8th Science of Aphasia Conference

Monopoli (Bari), Italy
Date: 14 Sep 2007
to 19 Sep 2007 URL: http://www.soa-online.com

WPSI Workshop on Prosody, Syntax and Imformation Structure

Bloomington, IN, United States
Date: 14 Sep 2007
to 15 Sep 2007 URL: http://www.indiana.edu/%7Egpsi/wpsi_index.html

WAC3 3rd Web as Corpus Workshop incorporating Cleaneval

Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Date: 15 Sep 2007
to 16 Sep 2007 URL: http://www.uclouvain.be/en-index.html

IVA'07 7th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents

Paris, France
Date: 17 Sep 2007
to 19 Sep 2007 URL: http://iva07.ntua.gr

First IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing

California, United States
Date: 17 Sep 2007
to 19 Sep 2007 URL: http://icsc2007.eecs.uci.edu/

COSIT'07 Ninth International Conference on Spatial Information Theory

Melbourne, Australia
Date: 19 Sep 2007
to 23 Sep 2007 URL: http://www.cosit.info

Pacling-2007 Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics

Melbourne, Australia
Date: 19 Sep 2007
to 21 Sep 2007 URL: http://mandrake.csse.unimelb.edu.au/pacling2007/

GREC 2007 Seventh IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition

Curitiba, Brazil
Date: 20 Sep 2007
to 21 Sep 2007 URL: http://www.cvc.uab.es/iapr-tc10/grec2007/

Written Communication: Intercultural Aspect

Kursk, Russian Federation
Date: 21 Sep 2007
to 22 Sep 2007 URL: http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.html.

International Conference on Processing Head-final Structures

New York, United States
Date: 21 Sep 2007
to 22 Sep 2007 URL: http://www.rit.edu/~hfconf/

ICDAR2007 9th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition

Curitiba, Brazil
Date: 23 Sep 2007
to 26 Sep 2007 URL: www.icdar2007.org

Workshop: Definteness and Referentiality: Theory and Description

Adelaide, Australia
Date: 26 Sep 2007
to 28 Sep 2007 URL: http://defworkshop.als.asn.au

5th International Conference on Language Acquisition

University of Oviedo, Spain
Date: 26 Sep 2007
to 28 Sep 2007 URL: http://www.aeal.eu/

Workshop on Computational Phonology

Borovets, Bulgaria
Date: 26 Sep 2007
URL: http://www.let.rug.nl/alfa/Borovetz-2007

Workshop on NLP for Educational Resources

Borovetz, Bulgaria
Date: 26 Sep 2007
URL: http://ixa.si.ehu.es/NLP_ER2007

RANLP 2007 Multi-source Multilingual Information Extraction and Summarization

Borovets, Bulgaria
Date: 26 Sep 2007
URL: http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2007/

MMM6 6th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting

Island of Ithaca, Greece
Date: 27 Sep 2007
to 30 Sep 2007 URL: http:// (under preparation)

Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing 2007

Borovets, Bulgaria
Date: 27 Sep 2007
to 29 Sep 2007 URL: http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2007
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