HCSNet Update Newsletter Volume 4 Number 8

Wednesday, 27th February 2008
HCSNet Update
Thursday 28 February 2008

Participant Spotlight

Iain McCowan, CSIRO

Research area: Speech Technology

My research interest lies in the application of signal processing, natural language processing, and machine learning technologies to observe and improve human-human and human-computer interactions. A focus of much of my work has been the use of microphone arrays in this context, benefiting from their spatial discrimination to track and acquire speech from distant speakers. This has application, for instance, to automated transcription of business meetings or within systems to support remote collaboration. Recently, I have also conducted research in the health domain, applying natural language processing and machine learning to automate the collection of cancer staging data from free-text pathology and radiology reports.

Contact:
Iain McCowan
CSIRO
ICT Centre
email: iain.mccowan@csiro.au     www: www.ict.csiro.au/staff/Iain.McCowan

News

HCSNet International Visiting Speaker Program: Seminars in March 2008

A reminder that 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.

Research Fellowship Position, MARCS Auditory Laboratories, UWS (3 Years Contract, Academic Level B, Reference: 70343)

MARCS Auditory Laboratories at the University of Western Sydney’s Bankstown campus invites applications from outstanding researchers seeking to establish a career in research. The successful applicant will develop high quality research programs on hearing impairment in infancy and early childhood, and will work with MARCS researchers and their partners at the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children. Applicants should have knowledge of, and an interest in, issues relating to hearing and hearing impairment in infants and young children, a track record of high quality publications, and an ability to secure external project funding. The position will also involve working with children. Closing Date: 12 March 2008; for further information, please see http://pubapps.uws.edu.au/vacancies/.

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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.

UIMA for NLP

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

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

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

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/

ACCEL-08 Advanced Concepts - Cognizance of English Language

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

S2S Workshop - Beyond Short Units

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

IS Workshop Workshop on Information Structure

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

PARTIAL PARSING Between Chunking and Deep Parsing

Marrakech, Morocco
Due date: 1 Mar 2008
URL: http://langtech.jrc.it/PaPa2008/

Methodological Perspectives on Communicative Functions

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

YRRSDS-08 Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems

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

Consonant Clusters and Structural Complexity

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

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

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/

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

Marrakech, Morocco
Due date: 1 Mar 2008
URL: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/

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

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

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/

ACL-08: HLT Workshop on Mobile Language Processing

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

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

9th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue

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

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/

CASK Sorbonne 2008 Language Data Mining for Intelligent Word Processing

Paris, France
Due date: 15 Mar 2008
URL: http://www.celta.paris-sorbonne.fr/colloques/CASKconf2008.html

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

8th ISSP 8th International Seminar on Speech Production

Strasbourg, France
Due date: 28 Mar 2008
URL: http://issp2008.loria.fr/

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.

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/

Reference to Abstract Objects in Natural Language

Barcelona, Spain
Date: 28 Mar 2008
to 29 Mar 2008 URL: URL TBA

The Neurocognition of Memory and Language

Washington DC, United States
Date: 28 Mar 2008
URL: http://cbbc.georgetown.edu/workshops/2008RA.html

Workshop on Empirical Approaches to Speech Rhythm

London, United Kingdom
Date: 28 Mar 2008
URL: http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/rhythm2008

ACCEL-08 Advanced Concepts - Cognizance of English Language

Tamilnadu, India
Date: 28 Mar 2008
URL: http://www.velammal.org
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