HCSNet Update Newsletter Volume 4 Number 19

Tuesday, 13th May 2008
HCSNet Update
Wednesday 14 May 2008

Participant Spotlight

Andrew Lampert, CSIRO

Research area: Natural Language Processing

In general, I work in the area of context-sensitive search and delivery of information, focusing on the information delivery side. We exploit the context of user interactions (e.g., information about the user, their task, the environment, the domain of application, the user's previous history of interaction) to adapt how information is retrieved, organised, and presented to the user.

My PhD work is looking at how to improve the way people manage and track tasks in email communication. Specifically, I'm working to create tools that assist email users by automatically detecting requests and commitments in incoming and outgoing email and focusing the user's attention on requests and commitments that remain unfulfilled.

Contact:
Andrew Lampert
CSIRO
ICT Centre
email: Andrew.Lampert@csiro.au     www: www.ict.csiro.au/staff/Andrew.Lampert/

News

PhD scholarship available in singing voice acoustics or music acoustics

The Music Acoustics Laboratory at UNSW is one of the world's leading labs in voice and music acoustics. See details of the PhD scholarship available in the lab at http:// www.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/sships.html .

International Visitors in 2007

We'd like to include information on international visitors of interest to the HCSNet community on our website. If you are aware of visits planned for 2008, please send details to mailto:newsletter@hcsnet.edu.au. And we'd remind you that HCSNet provides funding for an International Visiting Speaker Program whereby speakers give a talk, seminar or colloquium at a host institution and, to engage HCSNet people around Australia, at two additional venues around the country. Further details on the program are available at http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/programs/internationalspeakers .

HCSNet Priority Area: Effective Interfaces

Over the last two years, HCSNet's activities have been focussed around a number of Priority Areas (PAs) where we see significant scope for interdisciplinary interaction. Here's what Lawrence Cavedon, one of the leaders of HCSNet's Human Effective Interfaces PA, has to say about his area: "As our technology gets more complex, so do the interfaces we use to communicate with that technology. Communication breakdown in these interfaces is evident all around us: video recorder remote controls with functionalities too complex to understand, and repeated frustration at call-centre automation via less than perfect speech recognition, are two very visible instances. At the same time, humans are more complex than any devices we have yet created, but we communicate with each other effortlessly. This research priority area focuses on what it is that makes a human-computer interface, particularly one where speech is used as the mode of communication, effective."

If you're interested in Effective Interfaces, make sure you've indicated this interest in your HCSNet profile so that you receive mailings about the activities of the PA. Also see the Priority Areas web pages at http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/priorityareas for more information.

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.

Speclad: An Online Collaborative Problem-Based Learning Environment

Sydney, Australia
Date: 15 May 2008
URL: www.ict.csiro.au/HAIL/location.htm>

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.

Science of Aphasia 9

Chalkidiki, Greece
Due date: 15 May 2008
URL: www.soa-online.com

CSDL Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Lanuage

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

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

SIGIR 2008 Workshop on Aggregated Search

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

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

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

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/

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 workshop: Searching Spontaneous Conversational Speech

Singapore, Singapore
Due date: 23 May 2008
URL: http://ilps.science.uva.nl/SSCS2008

Presence 2008-11th Intl Workshop on Presence

Padua, Italy
Due date: 23 May 2008
URL: http://www.presence2008.org

Workshop on Text Mining Applications in the Social Sciences

Manchester, United Kingdom
Due date: 23 May 2008
URL: http://www.ncess.ac.uk/events/conference/

SIGIR 2008 The First Workshop on Information Retrieval for Advertising

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

AI 2008 Twenty-first Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Auckland, New Zealand
Due date: 30 May 2008
URL: http://www.ai08.org/

PALA 8th Symposium on Processability Approaches to Language

Verona, Italy
Due date: 31 May 2008
URL: http://www.processability.net

16th International Symposium on Graph Drawing

Crete, Greece
Due date: 31 May 2008
URL: http://www.gd2008.org/

Gathering of Animated Lifelike Agents

Tokyo, Japan
Due date: 1 Jun 2008
URL: http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/gala/

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.

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

Speclad: An Online Collaborative Problem-Based Learning Environment

Sydney, Australia
Date: 15 May 2008
URL: www.ict.csiro.au/HAIL/location.htm>

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

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

Marrakech, Morocco
Date: 31 May 2008
URL: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/

Sustainability of Language Resources and Tools for Natural Language Processing

Marrakech, Morocco
Date: 31 May 2008
URL: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/Workshops.html

Towards Enhanced Interoperability for Large HLT Systems: UIMA for NLP

Marrakech, Morocco
Date: 31 May 2008
URL: http://uima.lti.cs.cmu.edu

UIMA for NLP

Marrakech, Morocco
Date: 31 May 2008
URL: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/Workshops.html

Methodologies for Processing Spatial Language

Marrakech, Morocco
Date: 31 May 2008
URL: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/IMG/ws/Spatial.pdf

Natural Language Processing resources, algorithms and tools for authoring aids

Marrakech, Morocco
Date: 1 Jun 2008
URL: http://perso.limsi.fr/amax/recherche/lrec2008-authoring-aids

The 4th Web as Corpus workshop: Can we beat Google?

Marrakech, Morocco
Date: 1 Jun 2008
URL: http://webascorpus.sf.net/WAC4/

PARTIAL PARSING Between Chunking and Deep Parsing

Marrakech, Morocco
Date: 1 Jun 2008
URL: http://langtech.jrc.it/PaPa2008/

MWE 2008 LREC2008 - Towards a Shared Task for Multiword Expressions

Marrakech, Morocco
Date: 1 Jun 2008
URL: http://multiword.sf.net/mwe2008/

Brain Talk. Discourse with and in the Brain

Lund, Sweden
Date: 2 Jun 2008
to 3 Jun 2008 URL: http://conference.sol.lu.se/BrainTalk/

QITL-3 3rd Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics

Helsinki, Finland
Date: 2 Jun 2008
to 4 Jun 2008 URL: http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/tapahtumat/qitl/

LONDIAL: 2008 WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE

London, United Kingdom
Date: 2 Jun 2008
to 4 Jun 2008 URL: http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/semdial/

THE FIFTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LEARNING

Chicago, United States
Date: 3 Jun 2008
to 6 Jun 2008 URL: http://www.LearningConference.com

Lexical-Semantic Relations from Theoretical and Practical Pespectives

Mannheim, Germany
Date: 5 Jun 2008
to 6 Jun 2008 URL: http://www.ids-mannheim.de/aktuell/

TAG+9 The Ninth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Formalisms

Tuebingen, Germany
Date: 7 Jun 2008
to 8 Jun 2008 URL: http://tagplus9.cs.sfu.ca/

LENLS 5 Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 5

Hokkaido, Japan
Date: 9 Jun 2008
to 10 Jun 2008 URL: http://www.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp/~ogata/LENLS2008.html

Sociolinguisticsfest

Bloomington, IN, United States
Date: 9 Jun 2008
to 13 Jun 2008 URL: http://jones.ling.indiana.edu/~socfest/index.html

SIGWriting 2008 The 11th International EARLI SIG Writing Conference

Lund, Sweden
Date: 11 Jun 2008
to 13 Jun 2008 URL: http://sigwriting2008.sol.lu.se

Computer-Mediated Social Networking

Dunedin, New Zealand
Date: 11 Jun 2008
to 13 Jun 2008 URL: http://www.business.otago.ac.nz/infosci/Conferences/Isn2008/

Interaction Design for Children

Chicago, United States
Date: 11 Jun 2008
to 13 Jun 2008 URL: http://idc08.org/

INLG 2008 5th International Natural Language Generation

Salt Fork, OH, United States
Date: 12 Jun 2008
to 14 Jun 2008 URL: http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/inlg2008/

NLPCS 2008 The 5th International Workshop on NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE

Barcelona, Spain
Date: 12 Jun 2008
to 16 Jun 2008 URL: http://www.iceis.org/workshops/nlpcs/nlpcs2008-cfp.html

Referring Expression Generation Challenge 2008

Ohio, United States
Date: 12 Jun 2008
to 14 Jun 2008 URL: http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/research/reg08

CASK Sorbonne 2008 Language Data Mining for Intelligent Word Processing

Paris, France
Date: 13 Jun 2008
to 14 Jun 2008 URL: http://www.celta.paris-sorbonne.fr/colloques/CASKconf2008.html
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