HCSNet Update Newsletter Volume 4 Number 2

Tuesday, 15th January 2008
HCSNet Update
Tuesday 15 January 2008

Participant Spotlight

Rainer Wasinger, Macquarie University

Research area: Human-Computer Interaction

My areas of expertise are in HCI and IUI, and in particular: multimodal interaction, modality fusion, and mobile and ubiquitous computing. Two growing research interests of mine include dialogue management and natural language generation, and broader interests also include natural language understanding, presentation output planning, and embodied conversational agents. Currently, I am working on the ARC/NH&MRC funded Thinking Heads project, in which a system is being developed to support an enhanced head that is capable of effective human-computer interaction and that has the ability to learn from encounters with human interactants.

Contact:
Rainer Wasinger
Macquarie University
Centre for Language Technology
email: rainer.wasinger@mq.edu.au     www: www.ics.mq.edu.au/~wasinger/

News

Seminar Listings for 2008

One of the aims of the HCSNet Newsletter is to promote interdisciplinarity by giving participants a window on what is happening across the range of disciplines that make up human communication science. If you are aware of seminars at your institution now being scheduled for 2008 of interest to the HCSNet community, we'd be grateful if you could send details to newsletter@hcsnet.edu.au so that we can add these to our database and publicise events in our newsletter.

HCSNet International Visiting Speaker Program

A reminder that the HCSNet International Visiting Speaker Program provides financial support of up to $4,000 to bring visiting speakers to Australia from overseas. The aim of this program is to encourage international linkages between HCSNet participants and overseas researchers and laboratories. Applications for 2008 are now invited; see http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/programs/internationalspeakers 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.

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.

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

Workshop on Pervasive Visual, Auditory and Alternative Modality Information Display

Sydney, Australia
Due date: 25 Jan 2008
URL: http://faculty.arch.usyd.edu.au/kcdc/conferences/pervasive_expression/

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

Natural Language Processing resources, algorithms and tools for authoring aids

Marrakech, Morocco
Due date: 11 Feb 2008
URL: http://perso.limsi.fr/amax/recherche/lrec2008-authoring-aids

OntoLex 2008 - The role of ontolex resources in building the infrastructure of Web 3.0: vision and practice

Marrakech, Morocco
Due date: 11 Feb 2008
URL: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/

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.

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

NorConfClinLing2008 The First Nordic Conference of Clinical Linguistics

Joensuu, Finland
Date: 9 Feb 2008
to 10 Feb 2008 URL: http://cc.joensuu.fi/linguistics/NorConfClinLing2008/

Mixing Approaches to MACHINE TRANSLATION

Donostia - San Sebastián, Spain
Date: 14 Feb 2008
URL: http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/matmt08-2008
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