HCSNet Update Newsletter Volume 3 Number 42

Tuesday, 23rd October 2007
HCSNet Update
Tuesday 23 October 2007

Participant Spotlight

Shlomo Berkovsky, University of Melbourne

Research area: - Human-Computer Interaction

My general research interests are User Modeling and Recommender Systems. My main research interest focuses on achieving a better interoperability of recommender systems via importing and integrating the user modeling data collected by other recommender systems. This process is referred to as Mediation of User Modeling Data. My broader HCI research interests include Ubiquitous User Modeling, Collaborative and Content-Based Filtering, Context-Aware Recommender Systems, Personalized Text Summarization, and use of Machine Learning and Data Mining techniques in User Modeling and Personalization. Besides that, I am interested in Web Mining, Information Retrieval, Semantic Web Applications and P2P Computing. Currently, I am involved in ARC Kubadji project (collaboration between the University of Melbourne and Monash University), investigating the aspects of Personalised Content Delivery in Information Rich Physical Environments. The project focuses on providing museum visit personalization using User Modeling and Natural Language Processing techiques.

Contact:
Shlomo Berkovsky
University of Melbourne
Computer Science and Software Engineering
email: shlomo@csse.unimelb.edu.au     www: www.cs.mu.oz.au/~shlomo/

News

SummerFest '07: Early Bird Registration Closes this Friday

Just a reminder that the early bird registration for SummerFest '07 will close this Friday, 26 October. Register now to secure your place at the conference and pay only the early bird rates. Registrations will still be accepted after Friday, however late bird registration fees will apply. For details on the registration costs and to register for SummerFest '07, please click here. We look forward to seeing you at this year's event.

Request for information: ARC Discovery Grants 2008

HCSNet is seeking information on ARC Discovery Grants commencing in 2008 which are in anyway connected with the activities of the Network as we would like to maintain a central repository of projects in the human communication sciences area on the HCSNet website. We would be grateful if you could please forward details to Rosemary Eliott (reliott@ics.mq.edu.au) by 31 October 2007.

Request for Participants for a Study on Novel Distributed Team Collaboration Technology

The HxI Initiative between CSIRO, DSTO and NICTA is designing and developing novel group communication technology that enables same-time distributed intense collaboration between teams. The HxI Initiative - [braccetto] Project is seeking volunteers to participate in an exploratory study/experiment about novel remote interaction concepts. The experiment will be held at NICTA, Bay 15, Australian Technology Park, Redfern, Sydney from 29 October - 9 November 2007 and will involve 90 minutes working with a team of 4 people undertaking collaborative decision making in a bush fire survival context. There is a small monetary compensation for participants in this trial of $20. Participants will be providing a valuable contribution to the scientific methods and knowledge in the field of distributed intense collaboration. For more information, please visit: http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/files2/2007/advertisements/recruitment_BushFireSurvival_07-17A.pdf.

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.

CICLing-2008 9th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics

Haifa, Israel
Due date: 25 Oct 2007
URL: www.CICLing.org/2008

EPICS III Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics

Sevilla, Spain
Due date: 30 Oct 2007
URL: http://linguistlist.org/issues/18/18-2312.html#2

LREC 2008 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference

Marrakech, Morocco
Due date: 31 Oct 2007
URL: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/

Reference to Abstract Objects in Natural Language

Barcelona, Spain
Due date: 31 Oct 2007
URL: URL TBA

SYNLAC Workshop 2007: Language & Culture

Sydney, Australia
Due date: 31 Oct 2007
URL: linguistlist.org

DG2008 Between Discourse and Grammar

Ghent, Belgium
Due date: 1 Nov 2007
URL: http://members.chello.be/gert.desutter1/

ICPLA12 12th Meeting of ICPLA

Istanbul, Turkey
Due date: 1 Nov 2007
URL: http://www.icpla2008.org/

THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTERDISCIPLINARY SOCIAL SCIENCES

Tuscany, Italy
Due date: 8 Nov 2007
URL: http://www.SocialSciencesConference.com

CUNY Phonology Forum Conference on the Syllable

New York, United States
Due date: 10 Nov 2007
URL:

CSKGOI Common Sense Knowledge and Goal-Oriented Interfaces

Canary Islands, Spain
Due date: 11 Nov 2007
URL: http://csc-master.media.mit.edu/cskgoi/

LATA 2008 2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS

Tarragona, Spain
Due date: 16 Nov 2007
URL: http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2008/index.html

Automatic Analysis of Learner Language: Bridging Foreign Language Teaching Needs and NLP Possibilities

San Francisco, United States
Due date: 19 Nov 2007
URL: http://purl.org/net/calico-workshop

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.

K-CAP 2007 The Fourth International Conference on Knowledge Capture

Whistler, Canada
Date: 28 Oct 2007
to 31 Oct 2007 URL: http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/kcap07/

PACLIC21 21st Pacific Asia Conference on Language Information and Computation

Seoul, Korea, Republic Of
Date: 1 Nov 2007
to 3 Nov 2007 URL: http://paclic21.snu.ac.kr

SLD symposium Society for Language Development Annual Symposium

Boston, MA, United States
Date: 1 Nov 2007
URL: http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/sld/symposium.html

BUCLD Boston University Conference on Language Development

Boston, MA, United States
Date: 2 Nov 2007
to 4 Nov 2007 URL: http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/

1st International Conference on Corpus-Based Approaches

Castelló, Spain
Date: 6 Nov 2007
to 7 Nov 2007 URL: http://www.fue.uji.es/jornadas/verevento.shtm?id=2676&tipoexpte=jornada

EMLAR IV Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research

Utrecht, Netherlands
Date: 6 Nov 2007
to 8 Nov 2007 URL: http://www.let.uu.nl/emlar/

ADS at the MMLA American Dialect Society at the MMLA

Ohio, United States
Date: 8 Nov 2007
to 11 Nov 2007 URL: http://www.uiowa.edu/~mmla

AAAI Fall Symposium: Cognitive Approaches to NLP

Arlington, VA, United States
Date: 8 Nov 2007
to 11 Nov 2007 URL: http://www.aaai.org/Symposia/Fall/fss07.php

TLS 11 The New Empiricism in Linguistics

Austin, TX, United States
Date: 9 Nov 2007
to 11 Nov 2007 URL: http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~tls/2007tls/

Workshop on Nominal and Verbal Plurality

Paris, France
Date: 9 Nov 2007
to 10 Nov 2007 URL: http://www.umr7023.cnrs.fr/article.php3?id_article=295

OntoLex07 From Text to Knowledge: The Lexicon/Ontology Interface

Busan, Korea, Dem People's Rep
Date: 11 Nov 2007
URL: http://olp.dfki.de/OntoLex07/

ISWC ISWC workshop OntoLex07 - From Text to Knowledge

Busan, Korea, Republic Of
Date: 11 Nov 2007
to 15 Nov 2007 URL: http://olp.dfki.de/OntoLex07/

2nd International Workshop on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design

Seoul, Korea, Republic Of
Date: 12 Nov 2007
URL: http://www.haid2007.org

SRSL7 International Workshop on the Semantic Representation of Spoken Language

Salamanca, Spain
Date: 12 Nov 2007
to 13 Nov 2007 URL: http://www.dfki.de/~mpla/SRSL/

Bringing together the science and practice of hearing prostheses

Sydney, Australia
Date: 14 Nov 2007
URL: www.hcsnet.edu.au

Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces in Semantic Interaction

Nagoya, Japan
Date: 15 Nov 2007
URL: http://www.slc.atr.jp/iwmisi/
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