HCSNet Update Newsletter Volume 3 Number 43

Tuesday, 30th October 2007
HCSNet Update
Tuesday 30 October 2007

Participant Spotlight

Ingrid Scholten, Flinders University of South Australia

Research area: - Speech Pathology

Ingrid's clinical background as a speech pathologist has been predominantly in the area of communication and swallowing disorders of acquired neurogenic aetiology, including stroke and head injury. This interest is echoed in her teaching and research supervision. Ingrid’s teaching, associated scholarship and creative endeavours reflect an interest and enthusiasm for promoting student learning. Her doctoral research included the development and calibration of an assessment tool that marries the identification of complex learning outcomes with reliable measurement. This test was used in a national developmental study that investigated the contributions of a variety of factors to speech pathology students’ learning of the swallowing process over time. Another project employed qualitative research methods to study the teaching concepts held by teachers in the area of dysphagia. Together with departmental colleagues Ingrid has received competitive national funding to produce award-winning teaching-and-learning materials, CD-ROMS that deliver interactive multimedia programs. Each of the projects targets foundation knowledge and skills basic to speech pathology education and practice in inspirational ways. These significant educational resources are used throughout Australia and are also available internationally. Their development has involved wide consultation with colleagues from other universities to ensure that the programs meet the needs of students from a variety of settings and educational philosophies.

Contact:
Ingrid Scholten
Flinders University of South Australia
Dept. of Speech Pathology and Audiology
email: ingrid.scholten@flinders.edu.au     www: www.flinders.edu.au/speechpath/Staff/ingrids.htm

News

SummerFest '07 Registration

We're pleased to advise that SummerFest '07 Registration is back online. As indicated last week, the early-bird registration date has been extended to Friday, 2 November. Please note that for non-presenting students wishing to attend the Summer School only on Monday 3 and Tuesday 4 December, a special registration fee of $50 has been introduced (registrations must be received by 16 November). 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.

HCSNet Workshop on the Use of Vision in HCI, Adelaide, 2 December 2007

A reminder that registration for this year's VisHCI workshop will close on 16 November 2007. The workshop will consist of four half-day tutorials offered by renowned international and Australian researchers Fang Chen (NICTA), David Cristinacce (U Manchester, UK), Edwin Hancock (U York, UK), and Michael Frater (ADFA/UNSW). A limited number of student travel awards are available for students who are members of HCSNet (applications close 31 October). For more information, please see: http://users.rsise.anu.edu.au/~vishci/VisHCI2007/index.html.

Software Engineer Position (2 Year Fixed Term), MARCS Auditory Laboratories, UWS

MARCS Auditory Laboratories, University of Western Sydney, has been awarded a prestigious $3.4M ARC/NHMRC 'Thinking Systems' grant to develop a 'thinking head' – a breakthrough system that can learn from humans and will lead to advances in everything from hearing aids to mobile phones and video games. The Software Engineer will support the Chief Architect with the management and coordination of the Thinking Head project. The Thinking Head is an advanced embodied conversational agent that combines audio-video processing, speech and speaker recognition, face tracking, utterance interpretation, dialog management, utterance planning, speech synthesis, and animation. Software Engineering will involve development and maintenance of a Thinking Head software platform, and quality control and integration of components into the platform. Closing date for applications: 8 November 2007; for further information, please visit: http://apps.uws.edu.au/vacancies/.

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.

The Text Attribution Tool: author profiling for English emails

Sydney, Australia
Date: 6 Nov 2007
URL:

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.

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:

ICPLA12 12th Meeting of ICPLA

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

DG2008 Between Discourse and Grammar

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

Large-scale XML Corpora in Language and Literature

Oxford, United Kingdom
Due date: 5 Nov 2007
URL: http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/workshop/

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/

LT 2008 LangTech 2008

Rome, Italy
Due date: 15 Nov 2007
URL: http://www.langtech.it

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

DH2008 Digital Humanities 2008

Oulu, Finland
Due date: 18 Nov 2007
URL: http://www.ekl.oulu.fi/dh2008/

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

IUI4DR Intelligent User Interfaces for Developing Regions

Canary Islands, Spain
Due date: 19 Nov 2007
URL: http://research.ihost.com/iui4dr

Language, Communication and Cognition

Brighton, United Kingdom
Due date: 26 Nov 2007
URL: http://www.languageandcognition.net

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.

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/

The Text Attribution Tool: author profiling for English emails

Sydney, Australia
Date: 6 Nov 2007
URL:

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

CPR-07 Context-Dependence, Perspective and Relativity

Paris, France
Date: 9 Nov 2007
to 11 Nov 2007 URL: http://www.ugr.es/~nef/Perspective/

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/

NS2007 New Sounds 2007

Santa Catarina, Brazil
Date: 25 Nov 2007
to 28 Nov 2007 URL: http://www.nupffale.ufsc.br/newsounds/

Large-scale XML Corpora in Language and Literature

Oxford, United Kingdom
Date: 26 Nov 2007
URL: http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/workshop/

SALC First Conference of the Swedish Association for Language and Cognition

Lund, Sweden
Date: 29 Nov 2007
to 1 Dec 2007 URL: http://www.salc-sssk.org/
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