HCSNet Update Newsletter Volume 4 Number 17

Monday, 28th April 2008
HCSNet Update
Tuesday 29 April 2008

Participant Spotlight

Madeleine Keehner, University of Dundee

Research area: Psychology - Spatial cognition, sign langauge, working memory, individual differences, HCI

I graduated in August 2002 from the University of Bristol with a PhD in experimental cognitive psychology (advisor: Sue Gathercole). From 2000 to 2002, I held a joint research appointment, funded by a grant from the NSF, at the University of California Berkeley (Department of Bioengineering) and the University of California San Francisco (Department of Surgery). From 2002 to 2006, I held a postdoctoral research position, also funded by the NSF, at the University of California Santa Barbara, working with Mary Hegarty. From January 2006 to April 2007, I was a lecturer in psychology at Curtin University, Western Australia. I took up my lectureship at Dundee in May 2007. I study spatial cognition across a variety of domains and tasks. My interests include: Individual differences in spatial abilities Neural and behavioural bases of mental spatial transformations Spatial thinking in medicine, especially surgery and dentistry Visuospatial working memory processes in sign language Human-computer interaction, especially interactive 3D visualizations Information on my previous research group, the Hegarty lab, is available at: http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/~hegarty/

Contact:
Madeleine Keehner
University of Dundee
School of Psychology
email: M.M.Keehner@Dundee.ac.uk     www: www.dundee.ac.uk/psychology/mkeehner

News

HCSNet Workshop on Narrative and Communication Disorders.

13-14 September 2008 - The University of Melbourne

HCSNet's Human Communication Disorders Priority Area is hosting a workshop on 13-14 September 2008 at The University of Melbourne. The aim of the workshop is to bring together Australian and international researchers with an interest in narrative and communication disorders. The workshop will address developmental and acquired disorders of both child and adult language and perspectives from neurotypical populations; it will consider topics in theory, methodology and analysis. The intention is to take a truly interdisciplinary approach, involving speakers and participants from a range of areas covered by the broad domain of cognitive science, and to generate fruitful leads and directions for further research. Thus we expect that researchers from linguistics, psychology, speech pathology, psychiatry, computer science, cognitive neuroscience and other areas will find the workshop of interest. Interested researchers are invited to submit 200-250 word abstracts for paper or poster presentations by 2nd June 2008. Further details are available on the workshop website at http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/hcsnetevents/2008/ncdworkshop.

For further information, contact Associate Professor Lesley Stirling lesleyfs@unimelb.edu.au or Dr Susan Douglas sdouglas@unimelb.edu.au.

Second International Conference on Problem-Based Learning in Speech-Language Pathology: Call for Abstracts

We are delighted to announce that Dr. Tara Whitehill from the University of Hong Kong and Dr. Terry Barrett from University College Dublin will lead the presentations at the Second International Conference on Problem-Based Learning in Speech-Language Pathology to be held in Adelaide, on November 13-14, 2008. At this early stage we expect Dr. Whitehill to address the issue of tutor training and Dr. Barrett will present on “The Hard Fun of PBL: Listening to students' talk”. We invite you to join these stimulating presenters and submit your own abstracts for consideration for the programme.

All abstracts will be reviewed and assessed by the conference planning committee. Please submit your abstract to Ingrid Scholten via email: Ingrid.scholten@flinders.edu.au by 1 July. The presenter will be advised about the acceptance or otherwise of the abstract submission in August 2008.

For more details please see: http://som.flinders.edu.au/conferences/IntPBLconference/.

Upcoming Seminars

We list here upcoming seminars that are happening in the next month. A more complete list of seminars 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.

Do Terms Make Sense? Terminology and Cognition

Brussels, Belgium
Date: 16 May 2008
URL: http://cvc.ehb.be/Events.html#2008

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.

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 IV Integration - Methods and Perspectives

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

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/

4-ICOM 4th International Conference on Multimodality

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

Verb Concepts

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

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

KRAQ08 Knowledge and Reasoning for Answering Questions

Manchester, United Kingdom
Due date: 5 May 2008
URL: http://www.irit.fr/recherches/ILPL/kraq08.html

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/

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/

MMIES2 Multi-source, Multilingual Information Extraction and Summarization Workshop

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

SLT4MED08 Speech Translation for Medical Applications

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

22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics

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

GEAF08 Grammar Engineering across Frameworks

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

hjcl Coling 2008 Workshop on Human Judgements in CL

Manchester, United Kingdom
Due date: 5 May 2008
URL: http://workshops.inf.ed.ac.uk/hjcl/

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/

ML6 6th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon

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

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

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

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/

Future Challenges in Expertise Retrieval

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

SIGIR-08 2nd Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data

Singapore, Singapore
Due date: 16 May 2008
URL: http://and2008workshop.googlepages.com/

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

SIGIR 2008 The First Workshop on Information Retrieval for Advertising

Singapore, Singapore
Due date: 26 May 2008
URL: http://research.microsoft.com/workshops/ira2008/

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.

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

Do Terms Make Sense? Terminology and Cognition

Brussels, Belgium
Date: 16 May 2008
URL: http://cvc.ehb.be/Events.html#2008

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

DG2008 Between Discourse and Grammar

Ghent, Belgium
Date: 23 May 2008
to 24 May 2008 URL: http://members.chello.be/gert.desutter1/

HSI 2008 Conference on Human System Interaction

Krakow, Poland
Date: 25 May 2008
to 27 May 2008 URL: http://hsi.wsiz.rzeszow.pl/

The LAW II The 2nd Linguistic Annotation Workshop

Marrakech, Morocco
Date: 26 May 2008
to 27 May 2008 URL: http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=2183©ownerid=320

Building and evaluating resources for biomedical text mining

Marrakech, Morocco
Date: 26 May 2008
URL: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/

Second International Workshop on EMOTION

Marrakech, Morocco
Date: 26 May 2008
URL: http://emotion-research.net/

Uses and usage of language resource-related standards

Marrakech, Morocco
Date: 27 May 2008
URL: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/Workshops.html

Sentiment Analysis: Emotion, Metaphor, Ontology and Terminology

Marrakech, Morocco
Date: 27 May 2008
URL: https://www.cs.tcd.ie/Khurshid.Ahmad/lrec-emot08.html

SIGANN ACL Special Interest Group on Annotation

Marrakech, Morocco
Date: 27 May 2008
URL: http://verbs.colorado.edu/LAW2008/

Multimodal corpora: From Models of Natural Interaction to Systems and Applications

Marrakech, Morocco
Date: 27 May 2008
URL: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/

ELRA Workshop on Evaluation

Marrakech, Morocco
Date: 27 May 2008
URL: https://www.softconf.com/LREC2008/ELRA-EVAL2008/submit.html

LREC 2008 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference

Marrakech, Morocco
Date: 28 May 2008
to 30 May 2008 URL: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/

CISP 2008 2008 International Congress on Image and Signal Processing

Hainan, China
Date: 28 May 2008
to 30 May 2008 URL: http://www.hainu.edu.cn/CISP2008

CFP Cognitive and Functional Perspectives on Dynamic Tendencies in Languages

Tartu, Estonia
Date: 29 May 2008
to 1 Jun 2008 URL: http://www.fl.ut.ee/kttdk/ecla

RaAM 7 Researching and Applying Metaphor

Cáceres, Spain
Date: 29 May 2008
to 31 May 2008 URL: http://www.unex.es/eweb/raam7
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