HCSNet Update Newsletter Volume 4 Number 39

Wednesday, 1st October 2008
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In this issue

Participant Spotlight

Britta Biedermann, Macquarie University

spotlight participant

Research area: Psycholinguistics

The aim of my research is to investigate what happens during the process of turning thoughts into words. Homophones, words that sound the same but differ in meaning (e.g. money bank & river bank), have been used to investigate how many separate stages are involved in word processing. So far, I carried out a treatment study with two aphasic individuals, in which it was tried to improve their ability to name pictures of homographic homophones (e.g. ring/ring), when only one homophone partner had been treated. A treatment study including only heterographic homophones (e.g. flower/flour) is currently in preparation. An approach investigating normal speech is undertaken by using the Tip of the Tongue state as a window, from which word retrieval and the relative order of access to phonological and syntactic information can be observed.

Contact:
Britta Biedermann
Macquarie University
Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science
email: britta@maccs.mq.edu.au     www: www.maccs.mq.edu.au/members/profile.htm?memberID=82

News

Spotlight Correction - Professor Anne Castles

In our last issue we spotlit Professor Ann Castles and incorrectly stated she was at the University of Melbourne. Professor Castles has moved from the University of Melbourne and is currently a Research Professor at the Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science at Macquarie University.

Summer School Course on Language and Learning to Read at SummerFest ‘08

Anne Castles will be teaching a course at this year’s SummerFest. The course begins by asking what language is and whether the capacity for language is specific to human beings; it considers what the properties of language are, and focuses particularly on its capacity for symbolic representation. The course then distinguishes between spoken and written language and examines the typical process of development of both of these abilities. The latter part of the course moves on to examine different kinds of impairments in reading and language, and explores in depth some current issues and controversies in this domain. If you haven’t already registered for SummerFest and this course, go to it! http://sf08.hcsnet.edu.au

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.

The Future of Email

Sydney, Australia
Date: 15 Oct 2008
URL:

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.

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

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

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

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

11th International Pragmatics Conference

Melbourne, Australia
Due date: 15 Oct 2008
URL: http://ipra.ua.ac.be

CHI2009 Whole Body Interaction

Boston, United States
Due date: 23 Oct 2008
URL: http://www.chi2009.org

EACL 2009 Student Research Workshop

Athens, Greece
Due date: 24 Oct 2008
URL: http://www.eacl2009.gr/conference/

CatCod 2008 First International Workshop on Cataloguing and Coding of Spoken Language Data

Orléans, France
Due date: 30 Oct 2008
URL: http://www.catcod.org

Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations

College Park, United States
Due date: 31 Oct 2008
URL: http://www.mith2.umd.edu/dh09/

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.

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/

Music and Movements in Indonesian Culture Conference and Workshops

Sydney, Australia
Date: 7 Oct 2008
to 9 Oct 2008 URL: http://culturalevents.sobriquet.net/

Lived Experience, Metaphor, Multimodality

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

Corpus Linguistics in Practical Applications

Viterbo, Italy
Date: 13 Oct 2008
to 14 Oct 2008 URL: http://moodle.unitus.it

IIiX 2008 Second International Symposium on Information Interaction in Context

London, United Kingdom
Date: 14 Oct 2008
to 17 Oct 2008 URL: http://irsg.bcs.org/iiix2008/

The Future of Email

Sydney, Australia
Date: 15 Oct 2008
URL:

Presence 2008-11th Intl Workshop on Presence

Padua, Italy
Date: 16 Oct 2008
to 18 Oct 2008 URL: http://www.presence2008.org

CSDL Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Lanuage

Cleveland, OH, United States
Date: 18 Oct 2008
to 20 Oct 2008 URL: http://artsci.case.edu/csdl9

Corpus Profiling for Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing Workshop 2008

London, United Kingdom
Date: 18 Oct 2008
URL: http://kmi.open.ac.uk/events/corpus-profiling/index.php

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

London, United Kingdom
Date: 18 Oct 2008
URL: http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~andym/TLIR08/

Academy of Aphasia

Turku, Finland
Date: 19 Oct 2008
to 21 Oct 2008 URL: http://academyofaphasia.org

Computer Science and Information Technology

Wisla, Poland
Date: 20 Oct 2008
to 22 Oct 2008 URL: http://www.imcsit.org/?cont=100&type=page&page=82

AMTA 2008 The 8th Biennial Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas

Waikiki, Hawai’i, United States
Date: 21 Oct 2008
to 25 Oct 2008 URL: http://www.amtaweb.org/AMTA2008.html

AIIDE'08 The Fourth Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment

California, United States
Date: 22 Oct 2008
to 24 Oct 2008 URL: http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AIIDE/2008/aiide08call.php

ProsIco2008 International Conference on Prosody and Iconicity

Rouen, France
Date: 23 Oct 2008
to 24 Oct 2008 URL: http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/19/19-880.html

Creating Second Lives

Gwynedd, United Kingdom
Date: 24 Oct 2008
to 25 Oct 2008 URL: http://nieci.bangor.ac.uk/conf/?q=callforpapers/3

AFFINE – Affective Interaction in Natural Environments: Real-time affect analysis & interpretation for virtual agents and robots

Crete, Greece
Date: 24 Oct 2008
URL: http://www.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/research/vision/AFFINE/AFFINE.html

EMNLP 2008 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

Hawaii, United States
Date: 25 Oct 2008
to 27 Oct 2008 URL: http://conferences.inf.ed.ac.uk/emnlp08

OM-2008 The Third International Workshop on ONTOLOGY MATCHING

Karlsruhe, Germany
Date: 26 Oct 2008
URL: http://om2008.ontologymatching.org/

SSM 2008 Search in Social Media

California, United States
Date: 30 Oct 2008
URL: http://ir.mathcs.emory.edu/SSM2008/

ACM MIR2008 ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval

Vancouver, Canada
Date: 30 Oct 2008
to 31 Oct 2008 URL: http://www.mir2008.org

SLD symposium 2008 Society for Language Development Annual Symposium

Boston, MA, United States
Date: 30 Oct 2008
URL: http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/sld/symposium.html

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

Saarbruecken, Germany
Date: 31 Oct 2008
to 3 Nov 2008 URL: http://fois08.dfki.de

BUCLD Boston University Conference on Language Development

Boston, MA, United States
Date: 31 Oct 2008
to 2 Nov 2008 URL: http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/

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