[Itannounce] IT-Announce Newsletter - Issue 2 August 2006

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Dear IT-Announce subscriber,

Welcome to issue number 2 for August, 2006. This service is sponsored by
the Australian Computer Society (www.acs.org.au). Complete news items
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Australian International and Local Conference Announcements

  1st Int. Workshop on Integrating AI and Data Mining (AIDM 2006)
  Call for Chapter: Intelligent Complex Adaptive Systems
  ASCS 2007 Australasian Society for Cognitive Science

International Conference Announcements

  11th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology
  CFP: Expert Systems Journal Special Issue on Ontologies

Academic Positions

  Faculty and Administrative Positions Open Adelaide
  Research Scientists at SUNY Albany
  NLP Postdoc at the University of Pittsburgh

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Australian International and Local Conference Announcements

  1st Int. Workshop on Integrating AI and Data Mining (AIDM 2006)
  leong at deakin.edu.au

In recent years, we are witnessing an increasing number of applications
that combine AI and data mining to deliver sophisticated intelligent
systems. While the two disciplines have been strongly correlated,
either in research or application, there have never been a time where
such level of convergence exists within a single system. The objective
of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioneers in
either or both disciplines to present their work and discuss the future
development of this research direction.

IMPORTANT DATES
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Papers due: September 8, 2006
Notification of Acceptance: September 21, 2006
Camera Ready: October 1, 2006

Details: http://www.deakin.edu.au/~leong/aidm06




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  Call for Chapter: Intelligent Complex Adaptive Systems
  a.yang at adfa.edu.au

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CALL FOR CHAPTERS
Proposal submission deadline: August 31, 2006

Intelligent Complex Adaptive Systems
Editor: Ang Yang, University of New South Wales, Australia
Yin Shan, The Australian National University, Australia
Publisher: Idea Group Inc. (www.idea-group.com)
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Introduction
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The universe is a big system of systems. It has for example, ecological
systems, social systems, commodity and stock market, etc. These systems
are complex and constantly adapting to their environment. Many of these
systems are essential to the very existence of human beings. They cannot
be fully understood by isolating their components or applying simple cause
and effect reasoning due to the complexity and intensive interactions
among these components. These systems can be examined by looking for
patterns within their behaviour. The Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) ..... 
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  ASCS 2007 Australasian Society for Cognitive Science
  cogsci01 at adelaide.edu.au

Dear All,

An update on ASCS 2007, the 8th conference of the Australasian Society
for Cognitive Science:

Venue:  The University of Adelaide, South Australia
Dates:   Monday 9 July - Thursday 12 July 2007
Theme:  Reconsidering the Foundations of the Cognitive Sciences

The conference is being held in conjunction with a two day Computational
Neuroscience workshop, confirmed speakers for which include:

Martin Engelhaaf (Bielefeld University, Germany)
Eric Warrant (Lund University, Sweden)
Chuck Higgins (The University of Arizona, USA).

Further details of invited speakers and registration will be available
shortly.

Cheers,
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International Conference Announcements

  11th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology
  w.abdulla at auckland.ac.nz

ELEVENTH AUSTRALASIAN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
SPEECH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND,    6-8 DECEMBER 2006

The Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association (ASSTA)
is a scientific association that aims to advance the
understanding of speech science and its application to speech
technology. ASSTA and the University of Auckland are pleased to announce
the Eleventh International Conference on Speech Science and Technology
(SST2006).

Conference Themes

Submissions are invited for oral and poster presentations. Submissions
should describe original contributions to spoken language, speech science
and/or technology that will be of interest to an audience including
scientists, engineers, linguists, psychologists, speech and language
therapists, audiologists and other professionals.  Submissions are invited
in all areas of speech science and technology, but particularly in the
following areas:
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  CFP: Expert Systems Journal Special Issue on Ontologies
  mehmet at comp.mq.edu.au

CALL FOR PAPERS

Expert Systems: The Journal of Knowledge Engineering
Special Issue on Advances in Ontologies

Expert Systems seeks original manuscripts for a Special Issue on
Advances in Ontologies scheduled to appear in late 2007.

The use of formal ontologies in knowledge systems has many advantages.
It allows for an unambiguous specification of the structure of knowledge
in a domain, enables knowledge sharing and, as a result, makes it possible
to perform automated reasoning about ontologies. In recent years
there has been a worldwide increase in the use of ontologies, both in
industry and in research laboratories. This special issue of
Expert Systems on the theme of Advances in Ontologies is intended
to present the recent advances in ontology research and its applications
to a general audience, to provide an opportunity for the broader
Expert Systems community to become aware of recent ontology research.

The special issue will seek submissions of papers dealing with all
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Academic Positions and Scholarships

  Faculty and Administrative Positions Open Adelaide
  spoon at it.usyd.edu.au

Carnegie Mellon University
H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Australia

FACULTY AND ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS OPEN

The Heinz School's branch in Adelaide, South Australia is hiring
for faculty and senior management positions to support its growing
operations. The Heinz School is one of the top seven public policy schools
in the U.S. and is ranked the number one school in information technology
within the public policy and management arenas. Carnegie Mellon, a top
research university, boasts a national and international reputation-we
are highly ranked in computer science, engineering and business, and
one of the top twenty-five national universities. The Heinz School,
Australia is an extremely entrepreneurial, rapidly growing institution.

Executive Director
Responsible for the overall operation of the Australia branch of the
Heinz School including academic, financial, administrative and student
activities. Oversees faculty, organizes hiring and review processes
and provides direct oversight of administrative and programmatic
activities. Creates and maintains relationships with industry and ..... 
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  Research Scientists at SUNY Albany
  Nick Webb <nwebb at albany.edu>

The Institute for Informatics, Logics and Security Studies
(www.ils.albany.edu) at SUNY Albany is looking for full-time
researchers in Natural Language Processing, Question Answering, Human-
Computer Dialogue, and related areas.

Description of Duties: Research on the areas of advanced Question
Answering, Multi-Channel Dialogue, and Collaborative Information
Systems; Coordination of the development and implementation of
systems for real users; Supervision of experiments. Candidates should
be able to work with faculty and students from a variety of
disciplines and prepare research papers and presentations for
sponsoring agencies.

Qualifications: Candidates must have an advanced degree in Computer
Science, with experience or significant interest in topic areas such
as Information Retrieval, QA, Dialogue systems or other aspects of
Natural Language Processing. Minimum 5 years combined experience of
Java and C++ programming, with at least 2 years of significant Java
programming; Significant experience with Windows, Linux and Unix.

To apply, please send a CV to the ILS Administrator, Lynne Casper ..... 
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  NLP Postdoc at the University of Pittsburgh
  Janyce M. Wiebe <wiebe at cs.pitt.edu

Postdoctoral Research Associate Position
(http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~wiebe/adPostdoc.html)

Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis
University of Pittsburgh

The Subjectivity and Sentiment research group at the University of
Pittsburgh is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to join ongoing projects:

* Extracting opinions and beliefs from text
* Developing lexical resources for subjectivity and sentiment analysis
* Exploiting knowledge of opinions in NLP applications such as
question answering and information extraction

Applicants should have a PhD in Computer Science, Linguistics, or
related field with a focus on Natural Language Processing. Interest
and experience in some of the following are desirable: subjectivity
and sentiment analysis, lexical semantics, corpus annotation,
discourse processing, question answering and information extraction,
and empirical methods for NLP.
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