HCSNet Update Newsletter Volume 4 Number 7

Thursday, 21st February 2008
HCSNet Update
Thursday 21 February 2008

Participant Spotlight

John Campbell, James Cook University

Research area: Evolution of Intelligence

Evolution of anatomically modern humans (AMH) and Neanderthals (supervision of PhD work on human evolution and modelling of origins, with Ms Denise Carrington-Smith). Evolution and origins of speech ability in hominins (modelling speech and proto-speech origins in humans and proto-humans; with Dr David Mills). Evolution, modelling and perception of gait in human and non-human hominoids (with Dr Rick Van Der Zwan and Dr Anna Brooks). Archaeology of gatherer-hunters (comparative studies of societies which subsist on and manage wild foods; evolution of gathering-hunting peoples; early domestication; with Mr Bill Ellwood). Archaeology of northern Australia (living-floor archaeology; direct dating of rock surface accretions; Indigenous rights and heritage; with Dr Mireille Mardaga-Campbell and Dr Alan Watchman). Archaeology of northern Europe (Palaeolithic and later; adaptations to glacial conditions; colonisation of North Atlantic; supervision of PhD work on Last Glacial Maximum; with Mr Nathan Walker). Exo-archaeology (potential for archaeology off-world; human space heritage in Solar System; evolution of intelligence elsewhere in Milky Way; with Dr Alice Gorman, Dr Beth O'Leary and Dr Doug Vakoch). Forensic archaeology (assist in police investigations and preparations for disaster response; supervision of work on forensic procedures and facilities; with Dr Donna MacGregor).

Contact:
John Campbell
James Cook University
Department of Anthropology, Archaeology and Sociology
email: John.Campbell@jcu.edu.au     www: myprofile.cos.com/campbell35

News

HCSNet International Visiting Speaker Program: Seminars in March 2008

Professor Sharon Oviatt, Incaa Designs, Washington, will be presenting a seminar entitled "Human-Centered Design Meets Cognitive Load Theory: Designing Interfaces that Help People Think" at the University of Melbourne on 3 March and at NICTA, The Australian Technology Park, Sydney on 5 March. Professor Oviatt will also present a seminar entitled "Implicit User-Adaptive System Engagement in Speech, Pen and Multimodal Systems" at the University of Queensland on 4 March. Our thanks to HCSNet local hosts Fang Chen, Penny Sanderson and Frank Vetere for their assistance with Professor Oviatt's visit. For further information, including abstracts and venue details, please click here.

HCSNet Workshop Support Program

A reminder that HCSNet provides financial support for the organisation of workshops through its Workshop Support Program. The aims of the Program are to push forward thinking on important topics and issues in Human Communication Science, and to encourage new and surprising intersections between disciplines, by bringing together Network Participants in fora that encourage discussion. Funding for workshops is allocated on the basis of competitive applications. For more information, please see http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/programs/workshop.

PhD in Personalisation of Enterprise Search Engines, RMIT University

We are seeking a PhD candidate to undertake research in the area of personalisation of enterprise search engines consistent with the program outlined in the funded ARC Linkage Grant "Accurate Context-Aware Search for Managed Document Collections" held by Prof Justin Zobel, Dr Andrew Turpin and Dr Falk Scholer. Details of the grant can be found here. The successful applicant will enrol in the PhD program offered by the School of Computer Science and Information Technology at RMIT University, and will receive an annual stipend of AUD 24,650. Further details are available at: http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/jobs/2008/rmit_phd_search.

Interaction Design for Children, 11-13 June 2008, Northwestern University in Chicago, USA

Each year, IDC brings together the leading researchers, designers, and developers of children's technology to discuss the challenges, opportunities, and emerging trends in interaction design for children. This year's conference theme is "Think Outside the Toybox," and in addition to sessions on videogames and other toys, IDC08 will have sessions on educational technologies, online communities, assistive technologies, and a special pre-conference workshop on designing for children with disabilities. For more information, please visit http://idc08.org/.

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.

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/

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

Kloster Irsee, Germany
Due date: 22 Feb 2008
URL: http://it.e-technik.uni-ulm.de/World/Research.DS/irsee-workshops/pit08/introduction.html

Computer-Mediated Social Networking

Dunedin, New Zealand
Due date: 27 Feb 2008
URL: http://www.business.otago.ac.nz/infosci/Conferences/Isn2008/

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

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

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

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

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

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

Consonant Clusters and Structural Complexity

Munich, Germany
Due date: 1 Mar 2008
URL: http://www.phonetik.uni-muenchen.de/cluster

Methodological Perspectives on Communicative Functions

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

IS Workshop Workshop on Information Structure

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

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

YRRSDS-08 Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems

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

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/

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/

Interaction Design for Children

Chicago, United States
Due date: 3 Mar 2008
URL: http://idc08.org/

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

ACL-08: HLT Workshop on Mobile Language Processing

Ohio, United States
Due date: 7 Mar 2008
URL: http://www.mobilenlpworkshop.org/

ESSLLI 2008 Workshop: What Syntax Feeds Semantics

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

CSLP2008 ESSLLI 2008 WS: Constraints and Language Processing

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

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

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

Semantic Evaluations: Recent Achievements and Future Directions

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

Third Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation

Columbus, United States
Due date: 14 Mar 2008
URL: http://www.statmt.org/wmt08/

Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications

Columbus, United States
Due date: 14 Mar 2008
URL: http://www.cs.rochester.edu/~tetreaul/acl-bea.html

INLG 2008 5th International Natural Language Generation

Salt Fork, OH, United States
Due date: 14 Mar 2008
URL: http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/inlg2008/

9th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue

COLUMBUS, OHIO, United States
Due date: 14 Mar 2008
URL: http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/workshop9

ICCS6-2008-Korea 6th International Conference of Cognitive Science

Seoul, Korea, Republic Of
Due date: 15 Mar 2008
URL: http://iccs.yonsei.ac.kr

TSD 2008 11th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue

Brno, Czech Republic
Due date: 15 Mar 2008
URL: http://www.tsdconference.org

Linguistic Society of America Summer Meeting

Columbus, United States
Due date: 18 Mar 2008
URL: http://https://lsadc.org/info/meet-summer08.cfm

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.

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

EPS Experimental Pragmatics/Semantics

Bamberg, Germany
Date: 27 Feb 2008
to 29 Feb 2008 URL: http://www.zitatundbedeutung.uni-mainz.de/eng/350.php

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

ACM SAC 2008 Special Track on Information Access and Retrieval

Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil
Date: 16 Mar 2008
to 20 Mar 2008 URL: www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2008/

CISA Contrastive Information Structure Analysis

Wuppertal, Germany
Date: 18 Mar 2008
to 19 Mar 2008 URL: http://www.cisa-2008.de

Automatic Analysis of Learner Language: Bridging Foreign Language Teaching Needs and NLP Possibilities

San Francisco, United States
Date: 18 Mar 2008
to 19 Mar 2008 URL: http://purl.org/net/calico-workshop

SALT Semantics and Linguistic Theory 18

Amherst, United States
Date: 21 Mar 2008
to 23 Mar 2008 URL: http://umass.edu/linguist/events/salt18/
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