HCSNet Update Newsletter Volume 4 Number 1

Tuesday, 8th January 2008
HCSNet Update
Tuesday 8 January 2008

Participant Spotlight

Megan Gilliver, National Acoustic Laboratories

Research area: Psychology, psycholinguistics

I have a background in psychology and linguistics, and completed my PhD at UNE investigating "The Linguistic characteristics of preschoolers at risk for reading problems". With a strong ongoing interest in the area of hearing loss, I have recently taken up a position as Research Psychologist at the National Acoustic Laboratories. The research teams of which I am a part are involved in a range of projects examining hearing health behaviour. Specifically, we are interested in investigating potential barriers to the prevention of hearing loss, and to successful audiological rehabilitation. Of particular interest to me is the perceived impact of hearing loss: The potential for these to influence behaviour and the means by which perceptions may be altered to promote more beneficial hearing health behaviours.

Contact:
Megan Gilliver
National Acoustic Laboratories
email: megan.gilliver@nal.gov.au     www:

News

HCSNet Collaborative Grant Writing Support

A reminder that 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. See http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/programs/collaborativegrantwriting for more information.

Three Postdoctoral Positions in Text Mining

Macquarie's Centre for Language Technology has three open positions for three-year postdoc positions on an exciting text mining project. The project is funded by the Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre, which recently received a renewal of its funding from the Australian Government. The aim of the project is to build a sophisticated platform for exhaustive extraction from large text collections. Closing date for applications is JANUARY 21ST 2008. Applications must be made online via the Macquarie University website at http://www.hr.mq.edu.au/, where you can also find out more about the positions: search for position 19478 via the 'Positions Vacant' link. Informal enquiries can be made to Robert Dale at rdale@ics.mq.edu.au.

University of Queensland PhD Scholarship and/or PhD Top-Up Scholarship: Research in Dementia Care

We are seeking a PhD student to join our research group which is investigating ways to enhance the transition from home to residential care for people with dementia. The program of research will develop, implement and evaluate a new model of care that promotes a better transition to residential aged care facilities (RACF) for people with dementia, with the aim of improving their quality of life and decreasing the severity of caregiver burden. Applicants should have a background in health sciences, psychology or a related field and should possess an Honours degree (Honours Class 1 or Class 2A). A scholarship is available for students of the University of Queensland. The tax-free stipend is valued at $23,000 per annum. A top-up PhD scholarship is also available for applicants with an APA (or similar scholarship). To discuss the role and obtain the details necessary to complete an application, please contact Professor Helen Chenery at h.chenery@uq.edu.au. Reference Number: HC2007; closing date for applications: 11th January 2008.

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.

CCCT 2008 The 6th International Conference on Computing, Communications and Control Technologies

Orlando, United States
Due date: 9 Jan 2008
URL: http://www.infocybereng.org/ccct2008g

ACL 2008 Student Research Workshop

Columbus Ohio, United States
Due date: 10 Jan 2008
URL: www.isca-students.org/acl_08_hlt_student_research_workshop

AISB 2008 Convention Symposium on Affective Language in Human and Machine

Scotland, United Kingdom
Due date: 10 Jan 2008
URL: http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~cmellish/aisb08/

CLDC-2 The 2nd Conference on Language, Discourse & Cognition

Taipei, Taiwan
Due date: 10 Jan 2008
URL: http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~gilntu/

ACL 46th Meeting of Association for Computational Linguistics

Ohio, United States
Due date: 10 Jan 2008
URL: http://wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=362

Workshop on Text Mining

Georgia, United States
Due date: 11 Jan 2008
URL: http://www.cs.utk.edu/tmw08

SAW 2008 2nd Workshop on Social Aspects of the Web

Innsbruck, Austria
Due date: 12 Jan 2008
URL: http://bis.kie.ae.poznan.pl/11th_bis/wscfp.php?ws=saw2008

Abstract Objects: Semantics and Philosophy of Mathematics

Paris, France
Due date: 13 Jan 2008
URL:

First SignTyp Conference

Storrs CT, United States
Due date: 15 Jan 2008
URL: http://linguistics.uconn.edu/sign/

CFP Cognitive and Functional Perspectives on Dynamic Tendencies in Languages

Tartu, Estonia
Due date: 15 Jan 2008
URL: http://www.fl.ut.ee/kttdk/ecla

Vagueness and Language Use

Paris, France
Due date: 15 Jan 2008
URL: http://paulegre.free.fr/Vagueness/index.html

SLTU International Workshop on Spoken Languages Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages

Hanoi, Viet Nam
Due date: 15 Jan 2008
URL: http://www.mica.edu.vn/sltu

Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody

Ithaca, NY, United States
Due date: 18 Jan 2008
URL: http://ling.cornell.edu/prosody08

Linguistic Variation Across the Lifespan

Columbus OH, United States
Due date: 18 Jan 2008
URL: http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~springsym/

Workshop on Finding the Hidden Knowledge: Text mining for biology and medicine

Glasgow, United Kingdom
Due date: 21 Jan 2008
URL: http://www.sbforum.org/events.php?e_id=33

NLPIX 2008 NLP Challenges in the Information Explosion Era

Beijing, China
Due date: 26 Jan 2008
URL: http://www-tori.jaist.ac.jp:8000/NLPIX2008/index.html

ICFHR 2008 1st International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition

Montreal, Canada
Due date: 31 Jan 2008
URL: http://www.icfhr2008.ca

Workshop on Empirical Approaches to Speech Rhythm

London, United Kingdom
Due date: 31 Jan 2008
URL: http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/rhythm2008

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.

FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on GLOBAL INTEROPERABILITY FOR LANGUAGE RESOURCES

City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Date: 9 Jan 2008
to 11 Jan 2008 URL: http://icgl.ctl.cityu.edu.hk/

IJCNLP-08 3rd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing

Hyderabad, India
Date: 11 Jan 2008
to 12 Jan 2008 URL: http://www.ijcnlp2008.org/

IUI4DR Intelligent User Interfaces for Developing Regions

Canary Islands, Spain
Date: 13 Jan 2008
URL: http://research.ihost.com/iui4dr

CSKGOI Common Sense Knowledge and Goal-Oriented Interfaces

Canary Islands, Spain
Date: 13 Jan 2008
URL: http://csc-master.media.mit.edu/cskgoi/

AIRS 2008 Fourth Asia Information Retrieval Symposium

Harbin, China
Date: 16 Jan 2008
to 18 Jan 2008 URL: http://ir.hit.edu.cn/airs2008

CUNY Phonology Forum Conference on the Syllable

New York, United States
Date: 17 Jan 2008
to 18 Jan 2008 URL:

GWC 2008 The Fourth Global WordNet Conference

Szeged, Hungary
Date: 22 Jan 2008
to 25 Jan 2008 URL: http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/gwc2008

AusGrid 2008 The 6th Australasian Symposium on Grid Computing and e-Research

Wollongong, Australia
Date: 22 Jan 2008
to 25 Jan 2008 URL: http://www.uow.edu.au/conferences/ACSW08/home.html

(DRR) 2007 15th Document Recognition and Retrieval Conference

San Jose, CA, United States
Date: 26 Jan 2008
to 31 Jan 2008 URL: http://fens.sabanciuniv.edu/drr2008/eng/

LingEvid2008 Linguistic Evidence 2008

Tübingen, Germany
Date: 31 Jan 2008
to 2 Feb 2008 URL: http://www.sfb441.uni-tuebingen.de/LingEvid2008/

IMM13 13th International Morphology Meeting

Vienna, Austria
Date: 3 Feb 2008
to 6 Feb 2008 URL: http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/inst/roman/imm13
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