HCSNet Update Newsletter Volume 3 Number 48

Tuesday, 4th December 2007
HCSNet Update
Tuesday 4 December 2007

Participant Spotlight

Grace Chung, University of New South Wales

Research area: Natural Language Processing

My research interests are in areas of natural language processing and human computer interfaces. I have recently conducted research on natural language applications for the biomedical domain. In particularly, I am interested in using text mining technologies to assist medical practitioners to locate information and evaluate scientific evidence at the point of care. I have been focused on developing information extraction methods that could enhance the practice of Evidenced-based Medicine, by providing up-to-date evidence-based information to medical researchers/practitioners. I am also interested in the use of text mining methods for literature-based knowledge discovery in the biosciences. In the past I have worked for many years on spoken dialogue systems from building subword language models and pronunciation models for speech recognizers to designing dialogue managers. I have worked on algorithms for dynamically incorporating new vocabulary into conversational agents. I am interested in understanding how speech-enabled interfaces can be used in real life applications to assist users in achieving day-to-day tasks, particularly in learning tasks such as learning new languages.

Contact:
Grace Chung
University of New South Wales
Faculty of Medicine
email: gigigraceyc@gmail.com     www: www.chi.unsw.edu.au

News

SummerFest '07 Update

If you're reading this issue of the newsletter shortly after it was mailed out, many of your colleagues are enjoying HCSNet SummerFest '07 at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, which got off to a flying start on Monday and Tuesday with Summer School courses on topics including Music and Evolution, Introduction to Human Factors, Forensic Speech Science, Musical Interfaces, Introductory Corpus Linguistics and Adult Neurogenic Language Disorders. Our thanks to all Summer School presenters and to the student volunteers who provided technical support. At the Student Poster Evening over 25 students gave a short overview of their research - convincing us all to visit their poster - and there was opportunity for informal discussion and feedback. Mikko Sams from Helsinki University of Technology delivered Tuesday's Keynote Presentation entitled 'Learning and Attentive Auditory System'.

If you're in the area, you might want to drop by for some or all of the rest of the week; the full program of events for both SummerFest '07 and the International Conference on Music Communication Science (ICoMCS) is available for download here and includes the Speed Papers Session (Wednesday 5 Dec), ICoMCS (Wednesday 5 Dec-Friday 7 Dec), the Forensic Speaker Recognition Workshop (Thursday 6 Dec-Friday 7 Dec) and the Collaboration and Communicative Tools for Distributed Communities Workshop (Thursday 6 Dec-Friday 7 Dec). Onsite registration is $100 per day, and includes the Program, Information and Abstracts Booklet, morning and afternoon tea breaks and lunch.

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.

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/

Brain Talk. Discourse with and in the Brain

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

SALT Semantics and Linguistic Theory 18

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

ICMPC10 10th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition

Sapporo, Japan
Due date: 20 Dec 2007
URL:

Exploring Crash-Proof Grammars

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

Speech Prosody in Atypical Populations

University of Reading, United Kingdom
Due date: 31 Dec 2007
URL: http://www.rdg.ac.uk/epu/cls_event.htm

ICCS'08 Conceptual Structures: Knowledge Visualization and Reasoning

Toulouse, France
Due date: 31 Dec 2007
URL: http://www.iccs.info

18 CGG 18th Colloquium on Generative Grammar

Lisbon, Portugal
Due date: 2 Jan 2008
URL: http://www.fl.ul.pt/18CGG

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.

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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