HCSNet Update Newsletter Volume 4 Number 36

Wednesday, 10th September 2008
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In this issue

Participant Spotlight

Laurie Bauer, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ

spotlight participant

Research area: Linguistics

Laurie Bauer holds a personal chair in Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He has published widely in the area of morphology, including two textbooks, English Word-formation (Cambridge UP, 1983) and Introducing Linguistic Morphology (Edinburgh UP 1988, 2nd ed 2003), and his monograph Morphological Productivity (Cambridge UP 2001). He is on the editorial board of the journal Morphology (formerly Yearbook of Morphology) and is one of the editors of the new journal Word Structure. He has also published widely on international varieties of English, particularly with reference to New Zealand English. He is, with Peter Trudgill, one of the editors of Language Myths (Penguin 1998), and one of the authors of the introductory textbook Language Matters (with Janet Holmes and Paul Warren, Palgrave, 2006).

Contact:
Laurie Bauer
Victoria University of Wellington, NZ
School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies
email: blackhole2@hcsnet.edu.au     www: www.victoria.ac.nz/lals/staff/laurie-bauer/bauer.aspx

News

HCSNet SummerFest '08 Workshop Abstracts Submission Date Approaching Fast!

The deadline for submission of abstracts for presentations at HCSNet SummerFest '08 workshops is in one week's time. There are four workshops covering the full breadth of interests covered by the network -- 'Search and Information Extraction from Audio Data', 'Designing the Australian National Corpus', 'Embodied Interaction in Mobile, Physical and Virtual Environments', and 'Voice and Voice Disorders'. Presenters of accepted abstracts get reduced registration fees and can apply for travel support -- check out http://sf08.hcsnet.edu.au/summerfest08/workshops now!

Word Structure Summer School Course at SummerFest '08

Laurie Bauer, this week's spotlight, is presenting a course in the summer schools at this year's HCSNet SummerFest. Here's what he has to say about it: 'Linguistic morphology deals with the ways in which words are made up of smaller meaningful elements, so that in 'unfriendliness' we can find the elements divided by hyphens in 'un-friend-li-ness'. Each of these elements is recurrent elsewhere in the language with the same meaning. In this course we will begin by looking at the range of patterns that are found in human language, and then look specifically at the morphology of English, and some of the problems that arise in trying to describe and explain the way in which English morphology functions. We will consider such questions as binarity of structures, the marking of parts of speech (word-classes) and the limitations of stringing elements together.' Come to SummerFest and find out more -- pre-register your interest in this summer school course at http://sf08.hcsnet.edu.au .

Music and Movements in Indonesian Culture Conference and Workshops 7-9 October 2008

Music and dance offer doorways into other cultures and windows into the various forms of mental processing that have evolved around the world. The Music and Movements in Indonesian Culture Conference and Workshops next month brings together researchers, artists and academics from a variety of fields. With a light mixture of morning research presentations and afternoon workshops the event promises to be fun and informative. The conference will be opened by Member of the Order of Australia, Professor Margaret Kartomi on 7th of October. We also have guest lecturers and workshop hosts from around Australia, France and Indonesia. The workshops are an opportunity to learn Acehnese body percussion, participate in Javanese Dance, practice some moves of Pencak Silat and get involved in a special workshop teaching the central concept of almost all Indonesian music, Interlocking. Be sure not to miss the traditional performances on the first night!

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.

GW 2009 The 8th International Gesture Workshop

Bielefeld, Germany
Due date: 12 Sep 2008
URL: www.GW2009.de

Cognitive and CxG-Based Approaches to Evolution

Berkeley, CA, United States
Due date: 12 Sep 2008
URL: http://linguistlist.org/

EVIA 2008 The Second International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access

Tokyo, Japan
Due date: 14 Sep 2008
URL: http://ntcir.nii.ac.jp/index.php/EVIA-2008/

TLIR'08 Second International Workshop on Teaching and Learning of Information Retrieval

London, United Kingdom
Due date: 15 Sep 2008
URL: http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~andym/TLIR08/

The Emergence of Linguistic Patterns

Melbourne, Australia
Due date: 15 Sep 2008
URL: http://ipra.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.CONFERENCE11&n=1346

1st International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation: Supporting Small Languages Together

Hawai'i, United States
Due date: 15 Sep 2008
URL: http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ICLDC09

THE SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON TREEBANKS AND LINGUISTIC THEORIES

Groningen, Netherlands
Due date: 15 Sep 2008
URL: http://www.let.rug.nl/tlt

TAC Text Analysis Conference

Maryland, United States
Due date: 16 Sep 2008
URL: http://www.nist.gov/tac/

ICCPOL 2009 Language Technology for the Knowledge-based Economy

Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Due date: 19 Sep 2008
URL: http://www.comp.polyu.edu.hk/~iccpol09

ICCS2009 3rd International Conference of Cognitive Science

Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic Of
Due date: 21 Sep 2008
URL: http://www.iccs.ir

RASCAL Relating Asymmetries between Speech & Comprehension in the Acquisition of Language

Groningen, Netherlands
Due date: 22 Sep 2008
URL: http://www.rug.nl/let/RASCAL2009

Semantic Knowledge Discovery, Organization and Use

New York, United States
Due date: 30 Sep 2008
URL: http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/sk-symposium

ICLC 11 International Cognitive Linguistics Conference

Berkeley, CA, United States
Due date: 30 Sep 2008
URL: http://linguistlist.org/

LingEvid2008 Linguistic Evidence 2008

Tübingen, Germany
Due date: 30 Sep 2008
URL: http://www.sfb441.uni-tuebingen.de/LingEvid2008/

GASLA-10 Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition

Urbana, IL, United States
Due date: 1 Oct 2008
URL: http://netfiles.uiuc.edu/atrembla/gasla10

The Mind-Context Divide Linguistic Interfaces & Language Acquisition Workshop

Iowa, United States
Due date: 1 Oct 2008
URL: http://www.uiowa.edu/interfaceworkshop

The 7th NTCIR Workshop

Tokyo, Japan
Due date: 1 Oct 2008
URL: http://ntcir.nii.ac.jp/

AAAI 2009 Spring Symposium on Intelligent Narrative

palo alto, CA, United States
Due date: 3 Oct 2008
URL: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/conferences/aaai-int2/

ECIR 2009 31st European Conference on Information Retrieval

Toulouse, France
Due date: 5 Oct 2008
URL: http://ecir09.irit.fr

ADCS 2008 The Thirteenth Australasian Document Computing Symposium

Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Due date: 10 Oct 2008
URL: http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~aht/adcs2008/index.html

EACL 2009 12th Meeting of the European Chapter of the ACL

Athens, Greece
Due date: 10 Oct 2008
URL: http://www.eacl2009.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.

BioSem Biosemantics

Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date: 12 Sep 2008
to 14 Sep 2008 URL: http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.html.

IS Workshop Workshop on Information Structure

London, United Kingdom
Date: 13 Sep 2008
to 15 Sep 2008 URL: http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/is/

TIE3 Third TIE Conference on Tone and Intonation

Lisboa, Portugal
Date: 15 Sep 2008
to 17 Sep 2008 URL: http://www.fl.ul.pt/LaboratorioFonetica/TIE3/

PALA 8th Symposium on Processability Approaches to Language

Verona, Italy
Date: 15 Sep 2008
to 16 Sep 2008 URL: http://www.processability.net

WBBTMine'08 Wikis, Blogs, Bookmarking Tools - Mining the Web 2.0

Antwerp, Belgium
Date: 15 Sep 2008
URL: http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/ws/wbbtmine2008/

Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning

Sydney, Australia
Date: 16 Sep 2008
to 19 Sep 2008 URL: http://www.kr.org/KR2008/

ECAG '08 Facial and Bodily Expressions for Control and Adaptation of Games

Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date: 16 Sep 2008
URL: http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/conference/ECAG08

The Eight ACM Symposium on Document Engineering

S㯠Paulo, Brazil
Date: 16 Sep 2008
to 19 Sep 2008 URL: http://www.icmc.usp.br/doceng08

KROW 2008 Knowledge Representation Ontology Workshop

Sydney, Australia
Date: 16 Sep 2008
to 19 Sep 2008 URL: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~kr2008/krow.html

AKRR'08 ADAPTIVE KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND REASONING

Porvoo, Finland
Date: 17 Sep 2008
to 19 Sep 2008 URL: http://www.haikko.fi/kokoukset/en_GB/presentation/

The Eighth IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems

Nara, Japan
Date: 17 Sep 2008
to 19 Sep 2008 URL: http://www.u-pat.org/das08/

Language Diversity and the Acquisition of Linguistic Semantic Knowledge

Wroclaw, Poland
Date: 18 Sep 2008
to 19 Sep 2008 URL: http://www.zsi.pwr.wroc.pl/MISSI2008/LDALSK/

Sixth International Workshop on Writing Systems

Braunschweig, Germany
Date: 18 Sep 2008
to 19 Sep 2008 URL: http://www2.ru.nl/WrittenLanguage

Discourse Coherence - Text and Theory (MIC 2008 Sorbonne)

Paris, France
Date: 18 Sep 2008
to 20 Sep 2008 URL: http://www.celta.paris-sorbonne.fr/

HLIE08 Workshop on High-level Information Extraction

Antwerp, Belgium
Date: 19 Sep 2008
URL: http://www-ai.cs.tu-dortmund.de/HLIE08

Advances in Ethnography, Language and Communication

Birmingham, United Kingdom
Date: 20 Sep 2008
URL: http://www.ioe.ac.uk/schools/clc/elc/callforpapersaston.pdf

Science of Aphasia 9

Chalkidiki, Greece
Date: 20 Sep 2008
to 25 Sep 2008 URL: www.soa-online.com

BNC 2008 Bertinoro International Summer School of Natural Computation

Bertinoro, Italy
Date: 20 Sep 2008
to 27 Sep 2008 URL: http://www.dmi.unict.it/~bnc/

SAPA 2008 Statistical and Perceptual Audition

Brisbane, Australia
Date: 21 Sep 2008
URL: http://www.sapa2008.org/

16th International Symposium on Graph Drawing

Crete, Greece
Date: 21 Sep 2008
to 24 Sep 2008 URL: http://www.gd2008.org/

Human-machine comparisons of consonant recognition in quiet and noise

Brisbane, Australia
Date: 22 Sep 2008
to 26 Sep 2008 URL: http://www.interspeech2008.org/

9th International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference

Brittany, France
Date: 22 Sep 2008
to 24 Sep 2008 URL: http://icgi08.irisa.fr

LIPS 2008: Visual Speech Synthesis Challenge

Brisbane, Australia
Date: 22 Sep 2008
to 26 Sep 2008 URL: http://www.interspeech2008.org

STEP 2008 Symposium on Semantics in Systems for Text Processing

Venice, Italy
Date: 22 Sep 2008
to 24 Sep 2008 URL: http://project.cgm.unive.it/html/STEP2008/index.htm

EAMT Conference 2008

Hamburg, Germany
Date: 22 Sep 2008
to 23 Sep 2008 URL: http://www.eamt.org

INTERSPEECH 2008

Brisbane, Australia
Date: 22 Sep 2008
to 26 Sep 2008 URL: http://www.interspeech2008.org/

FDIA 2008 The 2nd BCS IRSG Symposium: Future Directions in Information Access 2008

London, United Kingdom
Date: 22 Sep 2008
URL: http://irsg.bcs.org/fdia2008

The 12th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation

Hamburg, Germany
Date: 22 Sep 2008
to 23 Sep 2008 URL: http://nats-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/view/EAMT08/WebHome

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

Burgos, Spain
Date: 24 Sep 2008
to 26 Sep 2008 URL: http://www2.ubu.es/hais2008/home.shtml

GCLA-08/DGKL-08 3rd Intl Conf German Cognitive Linguistics Assoc

Leipzig, Germany
Date: 25 Sep 2008
to 28 Sep 2008 URL: http://webapp.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/~DGKL/GCLA_08/

Prototypicality, Gradience and Fuzzines in Cognitive Linguistics

Leipzig, Germany
Date: 25 Sep 2008
to 27 Sep 2008 URL: http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~gcla08/modules.php?name=home&lang=english

Workshop on the Question Generation Task and Evaluation Challenge

Arlington, VA, United States
Date: 25 Sep 2008
to 26 Sep 2008 URL: www.questiongeneration.org

ICCG-5 Fifth International Conference on Construction Grammar

Texas, United States
Date: 26 Sep 2008
to 28 Sep 2008 URL: http://constructiongrammar.org

SuB13 13th Sinn und Bedeutung Conference

Stuttgart, Germany
Date: 30 Sep 2008
to 2 Oct 2008 URL: http://www.ilg.uni-stuttgart.de/SuB13/index.html

Verb Concepts

Quebec, Canada
Date: 3 Oct 2008
to 4 Oct 2008 URL: http://psychology.concordia.ca/verbconcepts/Main.html

FreeLing University of Sydney Free Linguistics Conference

Sydney, Australia
Date: 6 Oct 2008
to 7 Oct 2007 URL: http://conferences.arts.usyd.edu.au/index.php?cf=14

FOURTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON HUMAN-COMPUTER CONVERSATION

Bellagio, Italy
Date: 6 Oct 2008
to 7 Oct 2008 URL: http://www.villaserbelloni.com/

Acoustics Week in Canada

Vancouver, BC, Canada
Date: 6 Oct 2008
to 8 Oct 2008 URL: http://www.caa-aca.ca

ML6 6th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon

Alberta, Canada
Date: 7 Oct 2008
to 10 Oct 2008 URL: http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/mental-lexicon6/

Lived Experience, Metaphor, Multimodality

Crete, Greece
Date: 10 Oct 2008
to 12 Oct 2008 URL: http://www.edc.uoc.gr/multimodality2008

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