HCSNet Update Newsletter Volume 3 Number 37

Tuesday, 18th September 2007
HCSNet Update
Tuesday 18 September 2007

Participant Spotlight

Falk Scholer, RMIT University

Research area: Information Retrieval

My research is focused primarily in the field of information retrieval and related areas. Current projects include: * Prediction of query difficulty, aiming to estimate in advance whether a query is likely to return a useful set of answers. The idea is to explore how a retrieval system can be made more dynamic, for example by choosing different retrieval models, or by selectively applying search refinement techniques such as relevance feedback. * Evaluation of IR systems, investigating whether widely used metrics for measuring search performance reflect the actual search experience of users, and exploring alternative evaluation approaches. * More broadly, I'm involved in a range of projects within the Search Engine Group at RMIT University, including enterprise search and authoring support, cross-lingual IR and transliteration, music retrieval, interactive question answering, and using past search data to improve search effectiveness.

Contact:
Falk Scholer
RMIT University
School of Computer Science & Information Technology
email: fscholer@cs.rmit.edu.au     www: www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~fscholer

News

SummerFest Speed Paper and Student Poster Submissions Close Next Week

Just a reminder that this year's SummerFest will be held from 3-7 December at UNSW. We are currently calling for submissions for the speed papers session and the student poster session. Please visit our website for full details and note that the closing date for submissions is NEXT MONDAY 24 September 2007. Student Poster Submissions http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/summerfest07/posters; Speed Paper Submissions 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, so what are you waiting for? (Travel subsidies will only be available for Australian-based participants living outside of Sydney.)

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

We'd like to thank all participants who attended the HCSNet-HxI Workshop held at the Australian Technology Park in Sydney on 13 and 14 September 2007. Preliminary feedback from the workshop indicates that participants appreciated the diversity of HxI views presented, as well as the opportunity for Australia-wide networking in a relaxed and supportive atmosphere. Our thanks to workshop organisers: Lawrence Cavedon, Fang Chen, Peter Eades and Belinda Kellar. A reminder that workshop abstracts are available at http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/hcsnetevents/2007/hi4workshop and event photos are available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/hcsnet/.

"Correspondences in Sound and Vision" Performance

HCSNet participant, Professor Ernest Edmonds from the Creativity and Cognition Studios at the University of Technology, Sydney, together with Mark Fell and guests, will be performing "Correspondences in Sound and Vision" on Sunday 30 September 2007, 6.30pm-8.30pm at Bay 20 - Carriageworks, 245 Wilson Street, Eveleigh, Sydney. For more information, please visit: http://www.creativityandcognition.com/content/blogcategory/29/115/.

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.

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

American Association for Corpus Linguistics

Utah, United States
Due date: 28 Sep 2007
URL: http://corpus.byu.edu/aacl2008

Automated Syntactic Annotations for Interoperable Language Resources

City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Due date: 30 Sep 2007
URL: http://icgl.ctl.cityu.edu.hk/

IMM13 13th International Morphology Meeting

Vienna, Austria
Due date: 30 Sep 2007
URL: http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/inst/roman/imm13

MAD 08 Multidisciplinary Approaches to Discourse 2008

Oslo, Norway
Due date: 1 Oct 2007
URL: http://www.hf.uio.no/ilos/forskning/konferanser/mad08/

ECIR 2008 30th European Conference on Information Retrieval

Glasgow, United Kingdom
Due date: 1 Oct 2007
URL: http://ecir2008.dcs.gla.ac.uk/

CoPaLaSt Computational Paradigms and Language Structure

Berlin, Germany
Due date: 1 Oct 2007
URL: http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/events/copalast/index.html?home

ELU2007 Extended Lexical Units

Leiden, Netherlands
Due date: 1 Oct 2007
URL: http://www.lucl.leidenuniv.nl/index.php3?m=2&c=549

FSI not CSI: Perspectives in State-of-the-Art Forensic Speaker Recognition

Sydney, Australia
Due date: 1 Oct 2007
URL: www.hcsnet.edu.au

Collaboration and Communicative Tools for Distributed Communities

Sydney, Australia
Due date: 5 Oct 2007
URL: www.hcsnet.edu.au

ADCS 2007 The Twelfth Australasian Document Computing Symposium

Melbourne, Australia
Due date: 8 Oct 2007
URL: http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~aht/adcs2007/index.html

NIPS 07: Music, Brain & Cognition Workshop

Whistler, Canada
Due date: 10 Oct 2007
URL: http://homepage.mac.com/davidrh/MCBworkshop07/

HSI 2008 Conference on Human System Interaction

Krakow, Poland
Due date: 10 Oct 2007
URL: http://hsi.wsiz.rzeszow.pl/

Coarticulation: Cues, Direction, and Representation

Montpellier, France
Due date: 15 Oct 2007
URL: http://recherche.univ-montp3.fr/praxiling/spip.php?rubrique35

JADT 2008 9th International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data

Lyon, France
Due date: 15 Oct 2007
URL: http://www.jadt.org/

IASCL International Congress for the Study of Child Language

Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Due date: 15 Oct 2007
URL: http://www.in-conference.org.uk/IASCL/

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.

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

Genre and NLP Towards Genre-Enabled Search Engines

Borovets, Bulgaria
Date: 30 Sep 2007
URL: http://www.sics.se/use/genre-ws/

CALP'07 Computer-Aided Language Processing

Borovetz, Bulgaria
Date: 30 Sep 2007
URL: http://clg.wlv.ac.uk/events/CALP07/

The 26th International Conference on Lexis and Grammar

Corsica, France
Date: 2 Oct 2007
to 6 Oct 2007 URL: http://infolingu.univ-mlv.fr/Colloques/Bonifacio/index.html

CSSP 2007 7th Syntax and Semantics Conference

Paris, France
Date: 4 Oct 2007
to 6 Oct 2007 URL: http://www.cssp.cnrs.fr/index_en.html

Origins of Early Writing Systems

Beijing, China
Date: 5 Oct 2007
to 7 Oct 2007 URL: http://www.caeno.org/origins/home.html

CLASP Conference on Culture, Language, and Social Practice

Boulder, Colorado, United States
Date: 5 Oct 2007
to 7 Oct 2007 URL: http://www.colorado.edu/linguistics/faculty/kira_hall/clasp/conf/

1st International University of Sydney Free Linguistics Conference

Sydney, Australia
Date: 6 Oct 2007
to 7 Oct 2007 URL: http://conferences.arts.usyd.edu.au/index.php?cf=14

ESS 3rd International Conference on e-Social Science

Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Date: 6 Oct 2007
to 7 Oct 2007 URL: http://ess.si.umich.edu

Workshop on Formal Approaches to Language Acquisition

Haifa, Israel
Date: 7 Oct 2007
URL: http://cl.haifa.ac.il/LangAcq07/

Problems With Surface-Based Generalizations

Paris, France
Date: 8 Oct 2007
to 9 Oct 2007 URL: http://hk.geocities.com/tehsinl/index.htm

SLRF-2007 30th Annual Second Language Research Forum

Illinois, United States
Date: 11 Oct 2007
to 14 Oct 2007 URL: www.slrf-2007.uiuc.edu/programs.html

International Workshop: Speech and Body in Interaction

Berlin, Germany
Date: 12 Oct 2007
to 13 Oct 2007 URL: http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.html

HOWL 4th Hopkins Workshop on Language: Grammar in Cognition

Baltimore, MD, United States
Date: 13 Oct 2007
to 14 Oct 2007 URL: http://mind.cog.jhu.edu/howl-4/

IWSLT International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation

Trento, Italy
Date: 15 Oct 2007
to 16 Oct 2007 URL: http://iwslt07.itc.it

Language Engineering for Low-Density Languages

Batumi, Georgia
Date: 15 Oct 2007
to 27 Oct 2007 URL: http://ilit.umbc.edu/ASI

ISCIT 2007 7th International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies

Sydney, Australia
Date: 16 Oct 2007
to 19 Oct 2007 URL: http://www.elec.uow.edu.au/ISCIT2007/

CSDL Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Lanuage

Cleveland, OH, United States
Date: 18 Oct 2007
to 20 Oct 2007 URL: http://artsci.case.edu/csdl9

ICTIR 2007 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE THEORY OF INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

Budapest, Hungary
Date: 18 Oct 2007
to 20 Oct 2007 URL: http://www.infota.org/ictir2007/index.html

Ontology and Semantics

Paris, France
Date: 18 Oct 2007
to 19 Oct 2007 URL:
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