HCSNet Update Newsletter Volume 4 Number 6

Tuesday, 12th February 2008
HCSNet Update
Tuesday 12 February 2008

Participant Spotlight

Gregor McEwan, National ICT Australia

Research area: Human-Computer Interaction

My research interests lie in developing technology to support collaborative culture and practices of groups of people. This falls within the broad area of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). More specifically, my current work is about supporting collaboration in mixed presence groups. Mixed presence groups have a mixture of collocated and distributed members all working together at the same time. My previous research has been about supporting distributed groups with peripheral informal awareness amongst group members while they are focussing on their individual tasks, and enabling easy transitions to casual interactions. I would like to unify these two research interests by investigating how groups transition from individual work to ad hoc group meetings, and using technology to support that transition in mixed presence settings.

Contact:
Gregor McEwan
National ICT Australia
email: gregor.mcewan@nicta.com.au     www:

News

AVIOS Event in Sydney, 19 February 2008

The Australian chapter of AVIOS---the Applied Voice I/O Society---is holding its first Sydney meeting on Tuesday, 19th February 2008, 12noon-2pm (light lunch provided) in the Harbour Room of The American Club, Level 15, 131 Macquarie St, Sydney. AVIOS is a vendor neutral association that aims to provide a forum for the sharing of ideas and information between stake holder groups involved in developing speech recognition solutions. Peter Chidiac, Nuance's Managing Director, Australia and New Zealand, will give a presentation on: 'An update on customer satisfaction through to technology -- where speech is at today and where it is heading, including customer case studies, research results and new and innovative upcoming solutions.' For more information, please visit http://www.avios.com/australia/. To Register: contact AVIOS at liz.bednall@inferencecommunications.com or (03) 9916 8282 to reserve your seat. Seating is limited, so please respond promptly.

Second IIiX Symposium on Information Interaction in Context, London, 14-17 October 2008

The Doctoral Forum at the Second Information Interaction in Context Symposium (IIiX) is a one-day event that will take place on 14 October 2008, one day prior to the IIiX Symposium. The primary objective of the Doctoral Forum is to provide doctoral students with a forum to present and discuss their research projects with senior researchers and fellow students and to develop their relationships with other scientists. We invite all doctoral students investigating aspects in, e.g., information retrieval, information seeking or human-computer interaction related areas to apply for the forum. We especially welcome projects where contextual features are being considered as part of the research design. For more information, please see Doctoral Forum.

Senior Research Scientist Positions, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Berlin Institute of Technology

Deutsche Telekom AG, Europe’s leading telecommunications company, is expanding its corporate research and development centre - Deutsche Telekom Laboratories - in Berlin in collaboration with the Technische Universitat Berlin. The Strategic Research Laboratory has several openings for highly qualified Senior Research Scientists in the broad areas of Security (network and systems security, Networking (network architecture, wireless networking, network application, network services), Systems (virtualization, mobile operating systems)and Human interface (quality and usability evaluation, interaction design, multimedia interface technologies, multimodal interactive systems). There is no official deadline, but applications should be sent within the next 4 weeks, so that the candidates can be considered for the recruiting symposium to be held in March 2008. For more information, see http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/jobs.

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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.

THE GLOBAL STUDIES CONFERENCE

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

Computer-Mediated Social Networking

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

ICCG-5 Fifth International Conference on Construction Grammar

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

Methodologies for Processing Spatial Language

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

Uses and usage of language resource-related standards

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

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

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

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

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/

Building and evaluating resources for biomedical text mining

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

PARTIAL PARSING Between Chunking and Deep Parsing

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

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

ECIR'08 Workshop - Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval

Glasgow, United Kingdom
Due date: 17 Feb 2008
URL: http://www.yr-bcn.es/esair08

ELRA Workshop on Evaluation

Marrakech, Morocco
Due date: 18 Feb 2008
URL: https://www.softconf.com/LREC2008/ELRA-EVAL2008/submit.html

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

Marrakech, Morocco
Due date: 19 Feb 2008
URL: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/

WMSCI 2008 The 12th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics

Florida, United States
Due date: 20 Feb 2008
URL: http://www.sciiis.org/wmsci2008

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

Fourth International Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web

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

Reconciling Language Learning and Assessment

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

S2S Workshop - Beyond Short Units

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

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

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

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

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

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

HPSG2008 The 15th International Conference on HPSG

Keihanna, Japan
Due date: 1 Mar 2008
URL: http://www2.nict.go.jp/x/x161/en/member/bond/hpsg-2008/

YRRSDS-08 Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems

Ohio, United States
Due date: 1 Mar 2008
URL: http://www.yrrsds.org/

ISFC 2008 35th International Systemic Functional Linguistic Congress

Sydney, Australia
Due date: 1 Mar 2008
URL: http://www.isfla.org/conferences/35th_ISFC_Call_for_Papers.pdf

Prototypicality, Gradience and Fuzzines in Cognitive Linguistics

Leipzig, Germany
Due date: 1 Mar 2008
URL: http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~gcla08/modules.php?name=home&lang=english

IS Workshop Workshop on Information Structure

London, United Kingdom
Due date: 1 Mar 2008
URL: http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/is/

Methodological Perspectives on Communicative Functions

Aarhus, Denmark
Due date: 1 Mar 2008
URL: http://www.esse2008.dk/cfp_seminars.html

TAG+9 The Ninth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Formalisms

Tuebingen, Germany
Due date: 3 Mar 2008
URL: http://tagplus9.cs.sfu.ca/

NLPCS 2008 The 5th International Workshop on NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE

Barcelona, Spain
Due date: 3 Mar 2008
URL: http://www.iceis.org/workshops/nlpcs/nlpcs2008-cfp.html

International Conference & Symposium on Computer Games; Animation, Multimedia, IPTV, Edutainment & Security

Singapore, Singapore
Due date: 8 Mar 2008
URL: www.cgames.com.sg

CSLP2008 ESSLLI 2008 WS: Constraints and Language Processing

Hamburg, Germany
Due date: 8 Mar 2008
URL: http://control.ruc.dk/CSLP2008/

ESSLLI 2008 Workshop: What Syntax Feeds Semantics

Hamburg, Germany
Due date: 8 Mar 2008
URL: http://www.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008/WhatSyntaxFeedsSemantics.html

LONDIAL: 2008 WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE

London, United Kingdom
Due date: 9 Mar 2008
URL: http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/semdial/

Semantic Evaluations: Recent Achievements and Future Directions

Columbus, United States
Due date: 9 Mar 2008
URL: http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~lluism/sew2008.html

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.

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:

Cognitive Approaches to Second Language Acquisition

Landau, Germany
Date: 10 Mar 2008
to 13 Mar 2008 URL: http://www.uni-landau.de/anglistik/LAUD/index.htm

JADT 2008 9th International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data

Lyon, France
Date: 12 Mar 2008
to 14 Mar 2008 URL: http://www.jadt.org/

American Association for Corpus Linguistics

Utah, United States
Date: 13 Mar 2008
to 15 Mar 2008 URL: http://corpus.byu.edu/aacl2008

LATA 2008 2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS

Tarragona, Spain
Date: 13 Mar 2008
to 19 Mar 2008 URL: http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2008/index.html
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