HCSNet Update Newsletter Volume 4 Number 10

Tuesday, 11th March 2008
HCSNet Update
Tuesday 11 March 2008

Participant Spotlight

Susan Douglas, La Trobe University

Research area: Linguistics - Psycholinguistics

My research interests are centred on child language acquisition, with a particular interest in the relationship between linguistic and cognitive development. I recently completed my PhD in Linguistics at La Trobe University, investigating the semantic and syntactic development of verbs in the language of children with autism. My research was conducted in two stages: an observational study analysing conversational data of ten children with autism; and a small series of experimental studies testing theory of mind abilities and elicited production of specific sentence types. The analysis of verb use in the language of ten participants with autism revealed that while verb development may be significantly delayed, or even plateau, verb acquisition proceeds in the same manner as typical development in terms of the order of emergence of category types, and there was little evidence to support a theory of atypical development. I am currently a Research Associate on the 'StoryLincs' project led by Associate Professor Lesley Stirling at the University of Melbourne. This is an ARC funded project investigating autism and written narrative. The project website is http://www.autismnarrative.unimelb.edu.au.

Contact:
Susan Douglas
La Trobe University
Linguistics
email: susandouglas@ozemail.com.au     www:

News

Priority Areas Leaders' Meeting, 14 and 15 March 2008

A reminder that 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. Contact details are available here.

HCSNet Seminar Support Program

We'd like to remind you that HCSNet provides financial support for the organisation of seminars through its Seminar Support Program. The Program aims to bring together researchers who might otherwise not meet as a consequence of both geographical and disciplinary boundaries. Funding of up to $1,000 can be requested for an HCSNet Seminar. This amount is intended to cover airfare and associated accommodation and subsistence costs for the invited speaker, and other costs associated with staging the seminar, such as room hire and provision of refreshments. Please see http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/programs/seminar for more information.

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.

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

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

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

Referring Expression Generation Challenge 2008

Ohio, United States
Due date: 7 Apr 2008
URL: http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/research/reg08

AAAI-08 Workshop on What Went Wrong and Why: Lessons from AI Research and Applications

Chicago, United States
Due date: 7 Apr 2008
URL: http://www.whatwentwrongandwhy.org/

Human-machine comparisons of consonant recognition in quiet and noise

Brisbane, Australia
Due date: 7 Apr 2008
URL: http://www.interspeech2008.org/

Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning

Sydney, Australia
Due date: 7 Apr 2008
URL: http://www.kr.org/KR2008/

AAAI 2008 WORKSHOP ON ENHANCED MESSAGING

Chicago, United States
Due date: 7 Apr 2008
URL: http://enhancedmessagingworkshop.googlepages.com/

CAFFEi Comp Aspects of Affectual and Emotional Interaction

Patras, Greece
Due date: 10 Apr 2008
URL: http://caffei.iit.demokritos.gr/

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.

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

FSIM 4 Formal Semantics in Moscow 4

Moscow, Russian Federation
Date: 5 Apr 2008
to 6 Apr 2008 URL: http://syntactic-structures.ru

Vagueness and Language Use

Paris, France
Date: 7 Apr 2008
to 9 Apr 2008 URL: http://paulegre.free.fr/Vagueness/index.html
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