HCSNet Update Newsletter Volume 4 Number 4

Tuesday, 29th January 2008
HCSNet Update
Wednesday 30 January 2008

Participant Spotlight

Elzbieta Majocha, University of Western Australia

Research area: e- tools for research in the humanities, historical lingu

I'm currently working for the Digital Services of the ARC's Network for Early European Research. My work contributes to three projects: construction of a resource discovery service, management of the network wiki implemented in Confluence, and setting up the network's e-repository. The resource discovery service, to be known as "Europa Inventa", will be a web portal directing users to significant early European objects and manuscripts in Australian collections. The site will offer the extensive metadata, which research users will be able to contribute to and update. My first passion is linguistics, in particular, English historical linguistics. One challenge for this field is applying e-tools to Old and Middle English data: digitising source documents, building corpora, locating linguistic evidence geographically. My doctoral thesis at Edinburgh University took up this challenge, balancing Middle English data and e-tools to make sense of it. The task of bringing medieval research into the 21st century is enormous and best tackled by interdisciplinary collaboration specialists. I'd like to build a virtual organisation that fosters this collaboration, and supports research, with the latest e-tools for communication and collaborative research as well as for analysing data.

Contact:
Elzbieta Majocha
University of Western Australia
School of Humanities/NEER
email: elam@cyllene.uwa.edu.au     www: confluence.arts.uwa.edu.au/display/~emajocha/Home

News

ARC Discovery Grants commencing in 2008

We'd like to congratulate Network members who have been awarded ARC Discovery Grants in 2008. A list of the grants that fall within the general area of Human Communication Science is available on the HCSNet website here. If you're aware of other recently funded grants that fall within the subject areas covered by HCSNet, please send details to info@hcsnet.edu.au. We compiled our list by identifying HCSNet members who were awarded grants in this Discovery round, but we suspect that there are a number of funded projects in the broad area of human communication science whose chief investigators are not HCSNet members. The aim of the list is to give a general overview of current research in Human Communication Science in Australia.

CSIRO ICT Centre, Research Director - Information Engineering Position, Canberra

The CSIRO ICT Centre is building a role for Australia as a global ICT innovator by delivering leading-edge Information and Communication Technology solutions for industry and society. We are seeking to appoint a Research Director of international standing to lead our Information Engineering Laboratory. The successful applicant will have an established international research record in the information or data research, including web services, data management, privacy, natural language processing, user modelling or information retrieval and demonstrated leadership of a significant research group. For more information, please click here; applications close: 18 February 2008.

Postdoctoral or Research Fellow Position in the Centre for Health Informatics, UNSW

The Centre for Health Informatics (CHI) at the University of New South Wales is seeking to appoint a highly motivated and experienced researcher, with a background in computational linguistics, computer science or a related area, as a postdoctoral or research fellow to develop and evaluate advanced text mining techniques and apply them in knowledge management applications in the biomedical domain. The CHI is Australia's largest academic health informatics research group conducting fundamental and applied research focusing on the design, evaluation and application of decision-support technologies for healthcare and the biosciences. This position offers an outstanding opportunity to work in a unique multi-disciplinary research environment encompassing information, communication, cognitive and organisational science to support health service and biomedical innovation. For more information, please see: http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/jobs/2008/bionlp_unsw; applications close: 29 February 2008.

An HCSNet Farewell

As of the end of January, Rosemary Eliott will be stepping down from her position as HCSNet Administrator at Macquarie University to go on to other things. Rosemary has provided support for HCSNet Workshops and other events, the weekly newsletter you're reading now, as well as many other behind-the-scenes activities that make the Network run efficiently and effectively. She'll still be helping out on a part-time basis while we find a replacement, but we hope that you'll excuse any temporary lapses or delays in service that arise in the next few weeks. Rosemary will be sadly missed by all of us here at HCSNet.

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.

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

IIS 2008 INTELLIGENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS 2008

Zakopane, Poland
Due date: 31 Jan 2008
URL: http://iis.ipipan.waw.pl/

JCDL 2008 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

Pennsylvania, United States
Due date: 8 Feb 2008
URL: www.jcdl2008.org

Multimodal corpora: From Models of Natural Interaction to Systems and Applications

Marrakech, Morocco
Due date: 10 Feb 2008
URL: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/

PIT08 4TH TUTORIAL AND RESEARCH WORKSHOP PERCEPTION AND INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGIES FOR SPEECH-BASED SYSTEMS

Kloster Irsee, Germany
Due date: 10 Feb 2008
URL: http://it.e-technik.uni-ulm.de/World/Research.DS/irsee-workshops/pit08/introduction.html

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/

THE GLOBAL STUDIES CONFERENCE

Chicago, United States
Due date: 14 Feb 2008
URL: http://www.GlobalStudiesConference.com

CLIC Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture

Los Angeles, United States
Due date: 15 Feb 2008
URL: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/al/clic/conferenceinfo.htm

Sustainability of Language Resources and Tools for Natural Language Processing

Marrakech, Morocco
Due date: 15 Feb 2008
URL: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/Workshops.html

Uses and usage of language resource-related standards

Marrakech, Morocco
Due date: 15 Feb 2008
URL: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/Workshops.html

Building and evaluating resources for biomedical text mining

Marrakech, Morocco
Due date: 15 Feb 2008
URL: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/

ICCG-5 Fifth International Conference on Construction Grammar

Texas, United States
Due date: 15 Feb 2008
URL: http://constructiongrammar.org

LENLS 5 Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 5

Hokkaido, Japan
Due date: 15 Feb 2008
URL: http://www.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp/~ogata/LENLS2008.html

AKRR'08 ADAPTIVE KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND REASONING

Porvoo, Finland
Due date: 15 Feb 2008
URL: http://www.haikko.fi/kokoukset/en_GB/presentation/

QITL-3 3rd Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics

Helsinki, Finland
Due date: 15 Feb 2008
URL: http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/tapahtumat/qitl/

THIRTEENTH INTERNATIONAL LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR CONFERENCE

Sydney, Australia
Due date: 15 Feb 2008
URL: http://escholarship.library.usyd.edu.au/conferences/index.php/LingFest2008/LFG/

Computer-Mediated Social Networking

Dunedin, New Zealand
Due date: 15 Feb 2008
URL: http://www.business.otago.ac.nz/infosci/Conferences/Isn2008/

The LAW II The 2nd Linguistic Annotation Workshop

Marrakech, Morocco
Due date: 17 Feb 2008
URL: http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=2183©ownerid=320

PARTIAL PARSING Between Chunking and Deep Parsing

Marrakech, Morocco
Due date: 17 Feb 2008
URL: http://langtech.jrc.it/PaPa2008/

Sentiment Analysis: Emotion, Metaphor, Ontology and Terminology

Marrakech, Morocco
Due date: 20 Feb 2008
URL: https://www.cs.tcd.ie/Khurshid.Ahmad/lrec-emot08.html

Reconciling Language Learning and Assessment

Illinois, United States
Due date: 22 Feb 2008
URL: http://www.uic.edu/depts/lclc/Research/symposium08.shtml

Fourth International Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web

Beijing, China
Due date: 22 Feb 2008
URL: http://airweb.cse.lehigh.edu/2008/

S2S Workshop - Beyond Short Units

Naples, Italy
Due date: 29 Feb 2008
URL: http://www.sound2sense.eu/index.php/s2s/workshop/beyond-short-units/

ACCEL-08 Advanced Concepts - Cognizance of English Language

Tamilnadu, India
Due date: 29 Feb 2008
URL: http://www.velammal.org

UIMA for NLP

Marrakech, Morocco
Due date: 29 Feb 2008
URL: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/Workshops.html

Towards Enhanced Interoperability for Large HLT Systems: UIMA for NLP

Marrakech, Morocco
Due date: 29 Feb 2008
URL: http://uima.lti.cs.cmu.edu

16th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology

Utrecht, Netherlands
Due date: 29 Feb 2008
URL: http://www.eurospp.org

The 4th Web as Corpus workshop: Can we beat Google?

Marrakech, Morocco
Due date: 29 Feb 2008
URL: http://webascorpus.sf.net/WAC4/

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.

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

Enhancing search and retrieval capabilities and performance

Sydney, Australia
Date: 4 Feb 2008
to 6 Feb 2008 URL: http://www.arkgroupaustralia.com.au/events-b097-search.htm

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

CICLing-2008 9th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics

Haifa, Israel
Date: 17 Feb 2008
to 23 Feb 2008 URL: www.CICLing.org/2008

MAD 08 Multidisciplinary Approaches to Discourse 2008

Oslo, Norway
Date: 20 Feb 2008
to 23 Feb 2008 URL: http://www.hf.uio.no/ilos/forskning/konferanser/mad08/

EPICS III Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics

Sevilla, Spain
Date: 20 Feb 2008
to 22 Feb 2008 URL: http://linguistlist.org/issues/18/18-2312.html#2

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

Glasgow, United Kingdom
Date: 21 Feb 2008
to 22 Feb 2008 URL: http://www.sbforum.org/events.php?e_id=33

DEAL II Interface Theories

Leiden, Netherlands
Date: 22 Feb 2008
to 23 Feb 2008 URL: http://let.uvt.nl/deal08/

Workshop on Parsing and Semantic Role Labeling

Tilburg, Netherlands
Date: 26 Feb 2008
URL: http://ilk.uvt.nl/parsrl/

Gestures: A Comparison of Signed and Spoken Languages

Bamberg, Germany
Date: 27 Feb 2008
to 29 Feb 2008 URL: http://www.dgfs.de/cgi-bin/dgfs.pl/main

Methodological Aspects of Intonation Research

Bamberg, Germany
Date: 27 Feb 2008
to 28 Feb 2008 URL: http://linguistlist.org/

DGfS 2008 - AG 2 Human Universals as Constraints on Language Diversity

Bamberg, Germany
Date: 27 Feb 2008
to 29 Feb 2008 URL: http://www.dgfs.de/cgi-bin/dgfs.pl/main

The Role of Phonology in Reading Acquisition

Bamberg, Germany
Date: 28 Feb 2008
to 29 Feb 2008 URL:

LT 2008 LangTech 2008

Rome, Italy
Date: 28 Feb 2008
to 29 Feb 2008 URL: http://www.langtech.it

Exploring Crash-Proof Grammars

Jefferson City, TN, United States
Date: 29 Feb 2008
to 2 Mar 2008 URL:

Abstract Objects: Semantics and Philosophy of Mathematics

Paris, France
Date: 29 Feb 2008
to 1 Mar 2008 URL:
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