HCSNet Update Newsletter Volume 4 Number 9

Tuesday, 4th March 2008
HCSNet Update
Wednesday 5 March 2008

Participant Spotlight

Shigeki Amitani, University of Technology Sydney

Research area: Intelligent Systems - Human-Computer Interaction

I have been working in the field called "creativity support", especially in terms of designing, developing and evaluating systems that supports human creative activities. My current concentration is on developing "a generative website" where public audiences can post their own contents, especially videos, and then the website weaves the posted contents into "stories", meaningful sequences of information. The generated stories are: (1) dynamic contents that enable visitors to enjoy different contents each time when they visit; and (2) stimulants to visitors who are developing their own contents further based on what the others have created. This can lead to a creative SNS where people can communicate and create based on what they share. For more details about my work, visit: http://shigekifactory.com. Thanks!

Contact:
Shigeki Amitani
University of Technology Sydney
Australasian CRC for Interaction Design
email: shigeki@shigekifactory.com     www: shigekifactory.com

News

Priority Areas Leaders' Meeting, 14 and 15 March 2008

The next Priority Areas Leaders' Meeting will be held on 14 and 15 March 2008 and will be hosted by Rick van der Zwan at Southern Cross University, Coffs Harbour. The meeting will discuss the HCSNet 'Voice' Workshop to be held later in the year, Educational Initiatives including Continuing Professional Development Modules and HCSNet-backed grant applications in 2008. If members would like to see other items raised at this meeting, please let your PA Leader know as soon as possible. An overview of Priority Areas is available at http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/priorityareas/overview.

Best Wishes to Kym Buckley

Kym Buckley, HCSNet Administrative Coordinator at UWS, will be commencing maternity leave from mid-March 2008, and we'd like to wish her all the very best for her new arrival. Kym has provided exceptional organisational and administrative support to the Executive and to participants at our conferences and Priority Area workshops. We hope Kym might be able to drop in to visit us at SummerFest '08 and we look forward to her return in 2009.

HCSNet Annual Report 2007

A reminder that we are now in the process of putting together HCSNet's Annual Report to the ARC covering our activities in the 2007 calendar year. An important part of this report discusses how the world is different as a consequence of the Network's existence. So, we're looking for comments on how HCSNet has impacted on your research: ideas, interactions, seminar invitations, collaborations, proposals, publications, and anything else that would not otherwise have happened. We'd be very grateful if you could spend a few minutes thinking about this and forward comments to info@hcsnet.edu.au. Thank you!

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.

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

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/

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

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

Third Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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/

Coling 2008 22nd Intl Conference on Computational Linguistics

Manchester, United Kingdom
Due date: 30 Mar 2008
URL: http://www.coling2008.org.uk/

The Eighth IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems

Nara, Japan
Due date: 31 Mar 2008
URL: http://www.u-pat.org/das08/

MLMI 2008 5th Joint Workshop on Machine Learning and Multimodal Interaction

Utrecht, Netherlands
Due date: 31 Mar 2008
URL: http://www.mlmi.info

TIR-08 5th International Workshop on Text-Based Information Retrieval

Turin, Italy
Due date: 1 Apr 2008
URL: http://www.aisearch.de/tir-08

Sociolinguisticsfest

Bloomington, IN, United States
Due date: 1 Apr 2008
URL: http://jones.ling.indiana.edu/~socfest/index.html

2nd Postgraduate Conference in Cognitive Linguistics

Brighton, United Kingdom
Due date: 2 Apr 2008
URL: http://www.languageandcognition.net/pgccl

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.

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

ECIR 2008 30th European Conference on Information Retrieval

Glasgow, United Kingdom
Date: 30 Mar 2008
to 3 Apr 2008 URL: http://ecir2008.dcs.gla.ac.uk/

ECIR'08 Workshop - Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval

Glasgow, United Kingdom
Date: 30 Mar 2008
URL: http://www.yr-bcn.es/esair08

Second International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media

Washington, United States
Date: 31 Mar 2008
to 2 Apr 2008 URL: http://www.icwsm.org/2008/

OPEN REPOSITORIES 2008

University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Date: 1 Apr 2008
to 4 Apr 2008 URL: http://www.openrepositories.org/2008

AISB 2008 Convention Symposium on Affective Language in Human and Machine

Scotland, United Kingdom
Date: 1 Apr 2008
to 2 Apr 2008 URL: http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~cmellish/aisb08/

Sociolinguistic Issues in the Use of Language Analysis to Determine National Origin

Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date: 3 Apr 2008
to 5 Apr 2008 URL: http://www.taalstudio.nl
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