HCSNet Update Newsletter Volume 3 Number 47

Tuesday, 27th November 2007
HCSNet Update
Tuesday 27 November 2007

Participant Spotlight

David Martinez, University of Melbourne

Research area: Natural Language Processing - Language Technologies

My main interests lie in Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD), Lexical acquisition, and in general the application of Language Technology (LT) tools for information access. I am currently working as a Research Fellow on the ILIAD project (Improved Linux Information Access by Data Mining), which is a 3-year ARC Discovery project directed by Timothy Baldwin. The goal of ILIAD is to automatically acquire information from discussion forums and mailing lists for better delivery to the users. For this project we are developing and testing LT tools in the domain of Linux help newsgroups. I am also a collaborator in two projects related to applications and domain adaptation of WSD. The first involves the application of WSD to the biomedical domain, and it's being developed at the University of Sheffield. The second focuses on the interaction between syntax and semantics, and it's a collaboration between the University of the Basque Country and the University of Melbourne.

Contact:
David Martinez
University of Melbourne
Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering
email: davidm@csse.unimelb.edu.au     www: www.cs.mu.oz.au/~davidm/

News

HCSNet Collaborative Grant Writing Support

This program aims to encourage the submission of cross-disciplinary and cross-institutional project proposals to major funding schemes such as the ARC Discovery Program, the ARC Linkage Program, and the NHMRC by supporting travel for the purpose of grant preparation. The program provides travel and accommodation support up to a maximum of $1000 in order to prepare a grant proposal. Although there is no closing date, there is a limited budget and early submission may be advantageous. Evaluation of applications targeted at the 2008 ARC Discovery round will commence on 12 December 2007. See http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/programs/collaborativegrantwriting for more information.

HCSNet-HxI Workshop on Collaboration and Communicative Tools for Distributed Communities

What are the new technologies that will address the challenges individuals and teams face in their interactions with each other, the information they use and their environments? Social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace have been phenomenally popular in recent times, allowing people to connect and form new types of relationships and communities. What are the full possibilities for such technologies? What future developments are possible? These issues will be discussed at the HCSNet-HxI Workshop on Collaboration and Communicative Tools for Distributed Communities to be held as part of SummerFest '07 at the University of New South Wales on 6 and 7 December 2007. Click here for more information.

HCSNet Workshop on Cognitive Science and Text

We'd like to remind you that registration for this workshop closes on 30 November 2007. To be held on 13 and 14 December 2007 at the Fairmont Resort, Leura, the workshop will focus on the processing of text from a variety of perspectives. Presentations will cover research in areas such as visual word recognition, reading and spelling, literacy development, lexical analyses of text and text-to-speech technology. An important aim is to report new data while showcasing the wide variety of state-of-the-art methodologies currently being used in studies of text. Further details are available at http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/hcsnetevents/2007/cstworkshop.

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.

LPRG08 Face, Culture and Social Interaction

Budapest, Hungary
Due date: 30 Nov 2007
URL: http://www.nytud.hu/lprg/

The International Gender & Language Association 5th Biennial Conference

Wellington, New Zealand
Due date: 30 Nov 2007
URL: http://www.vuw.ac.nz/igala5/

IADA 2008 Milano Word Meaning in Argumentative Dialogue

Milan, Italy
Due date: 30 Nov 2007
URL: http://www.unicatt.it/IADA

ALA 2008 9th International Conference of the Association for Language Awareness

Hong Kong, China
Due date: 30 Nov 2007
URL: http://www.hku.hk/clear/ala

CADAAD'08 Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines

Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Due date: 30 Nov 2007
URL: http://cadaad.org/cadaad08

SIGWriting 2008 The 11th International EARLI SIG Writing Conference

Lund, Sweden
Due date: 30 Nov 2007
URL: http://sigwriting2008.sol.lu.se

RaAM 7 Researching and Applying Metaphor

Cáceres, Spain
Due date: 1 Dec 2007
URL: http://www.unex.es/eweb/raam7

GCLA-08/DGKL-08 3rd Intl Conf German Cognitive Linguistics Assoc

Leipzig, Germany
Due date: 1 Dec 2007
URL: http://webapp.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/~DGKL/GCLA_08/

Third International Conference on Cognitive Science

Moscow, Russian Federation
Due date: 1 Dec 2007
URL: http://www.cogsci2008.ru

ICAD '07 The 13th International Conference on Auditory Display

Montréal, Canada
Due date: 2 Dec 2007
URL: http://www.music.mcgill.ca/icad2007/

NorConfClinLing2008 The First Nordic Conference of Clinical Linguistics

Joensuu, Finland
Due date: 3 Dec 2007
URL: http://cc.joensuu.fi/linguistics/NorConfClinLing2008/

Second International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media

Washington, United States
Due date: 3 Dec 2007
URL: http://www.icwsm.org/2008/

OPEN REPOSITORIES 2008

University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Due date: 7 Dec 2007
URL: http://www.openrepositories.org/2008

ECAI 2008 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Patras, Greece
Due date: 10 Dec 2007
URL: http://www.ece.upatras.gr/ecai2008/

SALT Semantics and Linguistic Theory 18

Amherst, United States
Due date: 15 Dec 2007
URL: http://umass.edu/linguist/events/salt18/

Brain Talk. Discourse with and in the Brain

Lund, Sweden
Due date: 15 Dec 2007
URL: http://conference.sol.lu.se/BrainTalk/

Exploring Crash-Proof Grammars

Jefferson City, TN, United States
Due date: 20 Dec 2007
URL:

ICMPC10 10th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition

Sapporo, Japan
Due date: 20 Dec 2007
URL:

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.

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/

CoPaLaSt Computational Paradigms and Language Structure

Berlin, Germany
Date: 30 Nov 2007
to 1 Dec 2007 URL: http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/events/copalast/index.html?home

SyMi How Language Influences Thought

Berlin, Germany
Date: 30 Nov 2007
URL: http://www.angl.hu-berlin.de/denken

The Fourth Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment, 2007

Melbourne, Australia
Date: 3 Dec 2007
to 5 Dec 2007 URL: http://www.ie.rmit.edu.au

TeMA-2007 Workshop on Text Mining and Applications

Guimarães, Portugal
Date: 3 Dec 2007
to 7 Dec 2007 URL: http://epia2007.appia.pt/

HCSNet SummerFest '07

Sydney, Australia
Date: 3 Dec 2007
to 7 Dec 2007 URL: http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/summerfest07

SOLE'07 Seventh Conference on Language Engineering

Cairo, Egypt
Date: 5 Dec 2007
to 6 Dec 2007 URL: http://www.esole.org

Inaugural International Conference on Music Communication Science

Sydney, Australia
Date: 5 Dec 2007
to 7 Dec 2007 URL: http://marcs.uws.edu.au/links/ICoMusic

Collaboration and Communicative Tools for Distributed Communities

Sydney, Australia
Date: 6 Dec 2007
to 7 Dec 2007 URL: www.hcsnet.edu.au

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

Sydney, Australia
Date: 6 Dec 2007
to 7 Dec 2007 URL: www.hcsnet.edu.au

SYNLAC Workshop 2007: Language & Culture

Sydney, Australia
Date: 6 Dec 2007
to 7 Dec 2007 URL:

TLT 2007 Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories

Bergen, Norway
Date: 7 Dec 2007
to 8 Dec 2007 URL: http://tlt07.uib.no

Coarticulation: Cues, Direction, and Representation

Montpellier, France
Date: 7 Dec 2007
URL: http://recherche.univ-montp3.fr/praxiling/spip.php?rubrique35

NIPS 07: Music, Brain & Cognition Workshop

Whistler, Canada
Date: 7 Dec 2007
to 8 Dec 2007 URL: http://homepage.mac.com/davidrh/MCBworkshop07/

iicall2 2007 Interfaces of Intelligent CALL

Ontario, Canada
Date: 7 Dec 2007
to 8 Dec 2007 URL: http://purl.org/i-call/

ALTW 2007 Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2007

Melbourne, Australia
Date: 10 Dec 2007
to 11 Dec 2007 URL: http://www.alta.asn.au/events/altw2007

Workshop on New Techniques for Consuming, Managing, and Manipulating Interactive Digital Media at Homeg

Taichung, Taiwan
Date: 10 Dec 2007
to 12 Dec 2007 URL: http://homepages.cwi.nl/~garcia/ism2007_workshop

ADCS 2007 The Twelfth Australasian Document Computing Symposium

Melbourne, Australia
Date: 10 Dec 2007
URL: http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~aht/adcs2007/index.html

XPRAG 2007 Experimental Pragmatics 2007

Berlin, Germany
Date: 13 Dec 2007
to 16 Dec 2007 URL: http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/xprag

ELU2007 Extended Lexical Units

Leiden, Netherlands
Date: 14 Dec 2007
to 15 Dec 2007 URL: http://www.lucl.leidenuniv.nl/index.php3?m=2&c=549

AC2007 Sixteenth Amsterdam Colloquium

Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date: 17 Dec 2007
to 19 Dec 2007 URL: http://www.illc.uva.nl/AC2007/
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