HCSNet Update Newsletter Volume 4 Number 16

Tuesday, 22nd April 2008
HCSNet Update
Tuesday 22 April 2008

Participant Spotlight

Martin Luerssen, Flinders University of South Australia

Research area: - Artificial Intelligence

My main research interests lie in computational intelligence and nature-inspired computing, including autonomous optimisation, neural networks, and artificial life. I completed a Ph.D. in Evolutionary Computation, which involved class-leading research and the development of new algorithms for grammar evolution and evolutionary design. As a contributor to the Thinking Head project, I am applying my knowledge to the related domains of embodied conversational agents, social computing, computer vision, and ambient intelligence.

Contact:
Martin Luerssen
Flinders University of South Australia
School of Informatics and Engineering
email: martin.luerssen@flinders.edu.au     www: thinkinghead.edu.au/

News

HCSNet Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP)

We are pleased to launch a new undergraduate research placement scheme, the HCSNet Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP). Based on the Bio21 program run in Melbourne, this scheme is designed to introduce motivated undergraduate students into an active research environment early in their academic career. Students will undertake part-time employment, for at least 6 months, on projects embedded in larger research projects being run in HCS laboratories. For researchers the scheme provides the opportunity to employ and work with highly motivated and competent students with expertise either within or outside and complementing the researcher’s specific discipline; and for the students the scheme provides the opportunity for part-time work in an area related to their studies, integrated into a research program. Initially the program will be run in Sydney, and may be extended geographically at a later date. If you would like further information, or would like to participate in the scheme as an employer, please contact Mel Gallagher ( m.gallagher@uws.edu.au).

HCSNet SummerFest 2008 Dates

SummerFest is HCSNet’s annual flagship event, where over 200 people from the diverse range of disciplines that make up Human Communication Science get together for a week to stretch their brains. We’ve finalised the dates for this year’s SummerFest: Monday December 1st to Friday December 5th 2008. We’ll be experimenting with some changes this year, keeping what works well and making improvements on the basis of our past experience: you can look forward to bigger and even better summer school courses, a revitalised speed papers program, and workshops that focus on a range of areas that cut across the HCSNet disciplines. Watch this space for more information, and mark those dates in your diary now!

Congratulations

We would like to congratulate our Website Coordinator Ben Phelan who was married last week, we wish him and his bride Elle the very best for the future. We would also like to welcome the newest member of the HCSNet family Gabrielle Mae, born to our HCSNet Administrative Coordinator in 2007 Kym Buckley. Congratulations Kym, all the very best wishes to you and your family.

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.

FOIS-08 5th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems

Saarbruecken, Germany
Due date: 24 Apr 2008
URL: http://fois08.dfki.de

CID III Workshop on Constraints in Discourse III

Potsdam, Germany
Due date: 25 Apr 2008
URL: http://www.constraints-in-discourse.org/cid08

KASW'08 International Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition from the Social Web

Graz, Austria
Due date: 28 Apr 2008
URL: http://kmi.tugraz.at/workshop/KASW08/

SAPA 2008 Statistical and Perceptual Audition

Brisbane, Australia
Due date: 28 Apr 2008
URL: http://www.sapa2008.org/

CoNLL-2008 The Twelfth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning

Manchester, United Kingdom
Due date: 28 Apr 2008
URL: http://www.cnts.ua.ac.be/conll2008/

WORKSHOP on PRIOR KNOWLEDGE FOR TEXT AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING

Helsinki, Finland
Due date: 30 Apr 2008
URL: http://prior-knowledge-language-ws.wikidot.com

EMCL 4 Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics 4

Odense, Denmark
Due date: 30 Apr 2008
URL: http://www.lcm.sdu.dk/index.php?id=1629

HAIS´08 3rd International Workshop on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems

Burgos, Spain
Due date: 30 Apr 2008
URL: http://www2.ubu.es/hais2008/home.shtml

Second International Symposium on Information Interaction in Context

London, United Kingdom
Due date: 1 May 2008
URL: http://irsg.bcs.org/iiix2008/

Verb Concepts

Quebec, Canada
Due date: 1 May 2008
URL: http://psychology.concordia.ca/verbconcepts/Main.html

4-ICOM 4th International Conference on Multimodality

Singapore, Singapore
Due date: 1 May 2008
URL: http://multimodal-analysis-lab.org/conf/

Sixth International Workshop on Writing Systems

Braunschweig, Germany
Due date: 2 May 2008
URL: http://www2.ru.nl/WrittenLanguage

The International Symposium on Wikis

Porto, Portugal
Due date: 3 May 2008
URL: http://www.wikisym.org/ws2008/

Lived Experience, Metaphor, Multimodality

Crete, Greece
Due date: 4 May 2008
URL: http://www.edc.uoc.gr/multimodality2008

SLT4MED08 Speech Translation for Medical Applications

Manchester, United Kingdom
Due date: 5 May 2008
URL: http://www.issco.unige.ch/slt4med08/

GEAF08 Grammar Engineering across Frameworks

Manchester, United Kingdom
Due date: 5 May 2008
URL: http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~thking/GEAF08/GEAF08.html

22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics

Manchester, United Kingdom
Due date: 5 May 2008
URL: http://lingo.stanford.edu/events/08/pe/

MMIES2 Multi-source, Multilingual Information Extraction and Summarization Workshop

Manchester, United Kingdom
Due date: 5 May 2008
URL: http://doremi.cs.helsinki.fi/mmies2/

COLING 2008 Workshop TextGraphs-3: Graph-based Algorithms for Natural Language Processing

Manchester, United Kingdom
Due date: 5 May 2008
URL: http://lit.csci.unt.edu/~textgraphs/ws08/

PESMA08 Spoken language technologies for pervasive speech-based and multimodal applications

Manchester, United Kingdom
Due date: 5 May 2008
URL: http://pesma08.cs.uta.fi/

CogALex-08 Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon: Enhancing the Structure, Indexes and Entry Points of Electronic Dictionaries

Manchester, United Kingdom
Due date: 5 May 2008
URL: http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~michael.zock/

STEP 2008 Symposium on Semantics in Systems for Text Processing

Venice, Italy
Due date: 9 May 2008
URL: http://project.cgm.unive.it/html/STEP2008/index.htm

ML6 6th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon

Alberta, Canada
Due date: 9 May 2008
URL: http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/mental-lexicon6/

FSMNLP 2008 Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing

Ispra, Italy
Due date: 11 May 2008
URL: http://langtech.jrc.it/FSMNLP2008

INEX Initiative for the Evaluation of XML retrieval

Otago, New Zealand
Due date: 12 May 2008
URL: http://www.inex.otago.ac.nz

Advances in Ethnography, Language and Communication

Birmingham, United Kingdom
Due date: 15 May 2008
URL: http://www.ioe.ac.uk/schools/clc/elc/callforpapersaston.pdf

CSDL Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Lanuage

Cleveland, OH, United States
Due date: 15 May 2008
URL: http://artsci.case.edu/csdl9

Future Challenges in Expertise Retrieval

Singapore, Singapore
Due date: 16 May 2008
URL: http://ilps.science.uva.nl/fCHER/

THE SIGIR 2008 WORKSHOP ON FOCUSED RETRIEVAL: QUESTION ANSWERING, PASSAGE RETRIEVAL, ELEMENT RETRIEVAL

Singapore, Singapore
Due date: 16 May 2008
URL: http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/sigirfocus2008/

SIGIR 2008 Workshop on Aggregated Search

Singapore, Singapore
Due date: 16 May 2008
URL: http://www.yr-bcn.es/sigir08/

SPIRE 2008 15th String Processing and Information Retrieval Symposium

Melbourne, Australia
Due date: 19 May 2008
URL: http://spire2008.csse.unimelb.edu.au/

9th International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference

Brittany, France
Due date: 20 May 2008
URL: http://icgi08.irisa.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.

Reconciling Language Learning and Assessment

Illinois, United States
Date: 25 Apr 2008
to 26 Apr 2008 URL: http://www.uic.edu/depts/lclc/Research/symposium08.shtml

Workshop on Text Mining

Georgia, United States
Date: 26 Apr 2008
URL: http://www.cs.utk.edu/tmw08

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

Singapore, Singapore
Date: 28 Apr 2008
to 30 Apr 2008 URL: http://www.cgames.com.sg

Linguistic Variation Across the Lifespan

Columbus OH, United States
Date: 2 May 2008
to 3 May 2008 URL: http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~springsym/

SLTU International Workshop on Spoken Languages Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages

Hanoi, Viet Nam
Date: 5 May 2008
to 7 May 2008 URL: http://www.mica.edu.vn/sltu

SAW 2008 2nd Workshop on Social Aspects of the Web

Innsbruck, Austria
Date: 5 May 2008
to 7 May 2008 URL: http://bis.kie.ae.poznan.pl/11th_bis/wscfp.php?ws=saw2008

Speech Prosody 2008 4th Conference on Speech Prosody

Campinas, Brazil
Date: 6 May 2008
to 9 May 2008 URL: http://www.sp2008.org

SPECIAL TRACK ON VIRTUAL AGENTS AT AAMAS-08

Estoril, Portugal
Date: 12 May 2008
to 16 May 2008 URL: http://gaips.inesc-id.pt/aamas2008/index.html

IADA 2008 Milano Word Meaning in Argumentative Dialogue

Milan, Italy
Date: 15 May 2008
to 17 May 2008 URL: http://www.unicatt.it/IADA

Applied Natural Language Processing

Florida, United States
Date: 15 May 2008
to 17 May 2008 URL: http://www.msstate.edu/dept/english/applied_nlp/flairs_2008

THE GLOBAL STUDIES CONFERENCE

Chicago, United States
Date: 16 May 2008
to 18 May 2008 URL: http://www.GlobalStudiesConference.com

Joint HCSNet-EII Workshop on Interactive and Ubiquitous Information Access

Sydney, Australia
Date: 16 May 2008
to 17 May 2008 URL: http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/hcsnetevents

CLDC-2 The 2nd Conference on Language, Discourse & Cognition

Taipei, Taiwan
Date: 17 May 2008
to 18 May 2008 URL: http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~gilntu/

Workshop on Pervasive Visual, Auditory and Alternative Modality Information Display

Sydney, Australia
Date: 19 May 2008
to 22 May 2008 URL: http://faculty.arch.usyd.edu.au/kcdc/conferences/pervasive_expression/

CLIC Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture

Los Angeles, United States
Date: 22 May 2008
to 24 May 2008 URL: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/al/clic/conferenceinfo.htm
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