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2 PhD Positions in Text Analysis and Speech Synthesis, Trinity College Dublin
by Carl Vogel 21 Mar '10

21 Mar '10

[apologies for multiple postings; please circulate as appropriate] 2 Phd Positions involving speech and text analysis are open within TCD. http://www.tcd.ie/Graduate_Studies/InnovationBursaries/ The bursaries include payment of fees, some research costs, and a stipend of 16K per annum. The funding covers four years of study within a structured PhD program. This funding is equivalent to that provided by IRCSET awards. Position 1: Speaking the 1641 Depositions This innovative project under the theme of "Digital Humanities and Sustainable Records" will attract candidates who are interested in independent and advanced research linking speech synthesis and important historical documents. It will involve application of advanced linguistic and statistical methods, using the latest tools and technologies, for the analysis and rendering into speech of large bodies of annotated historical text. The project will last for four years and research costs, a stipend, and coverage of fees, etc., will be offered. Successful applicants will have a background in either history or computing. They will have keen analytical skills and will join a small team of researchers with similar interests in the way people speak and present information. They will be especially interested in expressing personality through speech synthesis, and in attempting to render historical texts in order to express character through the synthesised voices. Further details: http://www.tcd.ie/Graduate_Studies/InnovationBursaries/ Apply for course: www.pac.ie/tcd (code -- TRB01) Position 2: Technology for harmonising interpersonal communication We explore how contemporary modes of interaction, typically at a distance via electronic devices, can be supplemented to support the sorts of information flow and inference that evolution has endowed humans sensitivity to in face-to-face communications. The research entails that various prototype applications be constructed, deployed and analyzed. A successful candidate will have demonstrable expertise in computer programming, preferably with experience of end-user application delivery. The candidate will be engaged in the delivery of software alongside performance of quantitative and qualitative analysis of linguistic data. The background research topic is in discerning sentiment and other non-propositional content of textual communications (such as text messages) and projecting the same through appropriate vocal synthesis. Prior expertise in text and dialogue analysis as well as speech synthesis will be an advantage. Candidates should be comfortable with computational theoretical frameworks for syntax and formal semantics, as well as statistically oriented approaches to language analysis. Further details: http://www.tcd.ie/Graduate_Studies/InnovationBursaries/ Apply for course: www.pac.ie/tcd (code -- TRB08) ---------------------- Closing date for applications: Friday 9th April 2010 Applications should be made online through www.pac.ie/tcd

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StylisticsMMX -- extended deadline -- March 29, 2010
by Carl Vogel 21 Mar '10

21 Mar '10

[apologies for multiple postings -- please alert relevant colleagues -- DEADLINE EXTENDED to MARCH 29, 2010] CALL FOR PAPERS -- StylisticsMMX European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information 2010 (ESSLLI 2010 Workshop): Computational Stylistics: Beyond concordances and grammar checkers Methods of automatic text classification have been applied widely and extensively, ranging in category granularity and with respect to both solely internal properties of texts and text-external variables. Coarse-grained categories include binary distinctions such as spam vs. non-spam and three-way sentiment analysis of positive, negative or neutral, and at the other extreme, fine grained categories might derive from authorship attribution tasks or translation re-ranking in machine translation. Recent studies have sought to relate internal linguistic features of texts with external variables, such as author gender or scores on personality indices. Approaches driven by statistics amassed over corpora are compatible with (and informed by) precision analyses over selected texts, as practiced widely in the digital humanities and some approaches to discourse representation theory. Neither the "macro" level analysis supplied by corpus linguistics nor the "micro" level analysis of individual texts is in any way new. However, the potential for their interaction, and for assessing supra-lexical linguistic features of texts within stylistic analysis is growing. The aim of this workshop is to highlight current work that advances and applies computational stylistics. Papers sought for presentation will address any of the topics related to the theme of the workshop, including: - relations between demographic and linguistic variables - reliability and validity of complexity and other indices - plot structure analysis - sentiment, theme and semantic relation analysis - dramatis personae analysis - tracking stylistic change - cross-cultural variations in effects Each of ten to fifteen presentations will have a tutorial element situating the problem and hypotheses explored, as well as spelling out the methods of analysis, followed by the main substance of the research findings. Thus, the workshop proposes pedagogical value appropriate to ESSLLI, at the same time as recording recent research advances. TIMELINE: Call for Papers -- November 15, 2009 Extended Submission Deadline -- *March 29, 2010* [extended from March 15] Notice of Acceptance or Rejection -- *April 20, 2010* [extended from April 15] Final Submissions -- May 15, 2010 ESSLLI2010 -- August 9-20, 2010 FORMATTING and SUBMISSION DETAILS: Final versions will be formatted using LaTeX via a style sheet made available here: http://www.cs.tcd.ie/research_groups/clg/StylisticsMMX Submit pdf of full papers not exceeding 12 pages (inclusive of bibliography and appendices) in 11 point text via EasyChair to: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=stylisticsmm10 IMPORTANT NOTE about the European Summer School in Logic Language and Information: Authors of accepted papers to ESSLLI workshops must register as participants in the whole of ESSLLI, even if they intend to participate in only the week of ESSLLI in which the workshop is scheduled. Traditionally, presenters of papers accepted to workshops have been allowed to register with fees set at the student early-registration rate. Further details on ESSLLI 2010 are here: http://esslli2010cph.info/ StylisticsMMX Program Committee: Khurshid Ahmad, Trinity College Dublin Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp Patrick Juola, Duquesne University Fionn Murtagh, Science Foundation Ireland & Royal Holloway, University of London Harold Somers, Dublin City University/University of Manchester Sarah Rauchas, Goldsmiths, University of London Joseph Rudman, Carnegie Mellon University Carl Vogel [Chair], Trinity College Dublin

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Last day to register for "JITP 2010: The Politics of Open Source" at the early registration rate.
by Stuart Shulman 20 Mar '10

20 Mar '10

You have one more day to register for "JITP 2010: The Politics of Open Source" at the early registration rate. Early registration ends March 20. Visit http://politicsofopensource.jitp.net/ to register and secure your accommodations. thanks!

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Open call for papers
by Ditte Laursen 20 Mar '10

20 Mar '10

Open call for papers MedieKultur. Journal of media and communication research We welcome contributions dedicated to the study of media and communication from around the world. We are interested in studies in all areas of media and communication research. Contributions may introduce new aspects of media and communication research in the field of political, economic, historical, aesthetic, or social contexts. We are especially interested in articles which promote critical reflection and the further development of theory and method within media and communication studies. For further information about the journal, please click here. For information about submitting a manuscript to the journal, please click here. We encourage readers to sign up to receive information about new publications - please click here. Ditte Laursen, journal manager

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Digital technologies and museum experiences – call for papers
by Ditte Laursen 20 Mar '10

20 Mar '10

Call for papers: Digital technologies and museum experiences Special issue of MedieKultur. Journal of media and communication research. Editors: Professor Kirsten Drotner and post.doc. Ditte Laursen, University of Southern Denmark and DREAM Submission deadline: August 1st, 2010 Publication date: Spring 2011 In this special issue we welcome submissions, which investigate digital technologies and experiences in museums, galleries and science centres. Digital technologies can be used to enhance and transform the visitor’s experience and to extend the museum’s ability to invest the world with meaning onsite as well as off-site. We invite papers that take different approaches to the use of digital technologies in a museum context. Of special interest are submissions dealing with web 2.0 technologies, digital literacy processes and/or organisational challenges. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): • Interaction with digital technologies in a museum context • Learning with digital technologies in a museum context • Museum’s use of digital technologies • Co-creation and user-generated content in museums • Implementation of digital technologies, change processes and innovation in museums For more details on the journal and how to submit, please consult http://ojs.statsbiblioteket.dk/index.php/mediekultur/information/authors

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American Chemical Society (ACS) Publications Go Mobile
by gerrymck 19 Mar '10

19 Mar '10

Introducing ACS Mobile for your iPhone or iPod Touch ACS Mobile provides readers with a multi-journal, up-to-the-minute live stream of new peer-reviewed research content (Articles ASAPSM) published across the Society's preeminent portfolio of scholarly research journals, including the flagship Journal of the American Chemical Society. The application also includes a "Latest News" feed from Chemical and Engineering News – the Society's industry-leading magazine and preferred source of online news for its more than 161,000 member professionals. [snip] ACS Mobile offers the following features: > Up-to-the minute access to new ACS ASAP Articles, personalized across the entire portfolio of 38 peer-reviewed ACS Journals. > Tailored "on the fly" filtering options for viewing content from selected ACS titles. > Delivery of an indexed list of more than 35,000 research articles published annually, complete with graphical and text abstracts. > A "Latest News" feed from Chemical & Engineering News Online. > Saving of favorites in a "My ASAPs" folder for convenient offline reading and pushing back to your usual research setting. > Interface to full-text article access (via wireless or Virtual Private Networks) for users at institutions that subscribe to ACS Journals. > ID/password-based access is also an option for individuals who subscribe to ACS journals as part of their ACS member benefits package. > Quick Search across the more than 850,000+ scientific research articles and book chapters now on the ACS Web Editions Platform — discoverable by author, keyword, title, abstract, DOI or bibliographic citation. [snip] Links To Video Demo / Download ACS Mobile at the Apple iTunes Store / News Available At [ http://tinyurl.com/yd26l9n ] EnJOY ! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 Follow Me On Twitter > http://twitter.com/GMcKBlogs >>> "The Future Is Mobile" >>>

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***FlowTV.org Special Issue CFP: The Archive***
by Alexander Cho 18 Mar '10

18 Mar '10

FlowTV.org CFP: The Archive Due Date: Friday, May 7, 2010 http://flowtv.org/?page_id=25 "Silences enter the process of historical production at four crucial moments: the moment of fact creation (the making of sources); the moment of fact assembly (the making of archives); the moment of fact retrieval (the making of narratives); and the moment of retrospective significance (the making of history in the final instance)." --Michel-Rolph Trouillot, "Silencing the Past" For this special issue, we are soliciting columns that use media archives as sources and explore archives as objects of study in themselves. In particular, Flow seeks to problematize the rhetoric of "new," "digital," "ephemeral," and "interchangeable" with regard to our multifaceted media landscape and ask: In what very real ways do we form, practice, and extract from the archive? How does the archive function as a connection between the past and the present (and an example of the past's place in the present)? How does media function in the archive and as an archive? How can archival study be used to further public knowledge and historical consciousness? Which voices are filtered out, and which gain admission to the archive? What about the "unarchivable" -- affective, unwriteable, experiential? In a sense, this special issue will itself be an archive: What is the current state of the mass-mediated past? Some possible subjects include: Social media as archive Film preservation DVR The actor's, producer's and director's archive Queer temporalities and media practices Trauma, public memory, media News gathering The Internet as archive and archiving the Internet DVDs as television archives Mobile technology as archive Reproducibility across media TV networks as archives--TV Land/Nick at Nite, ESPN Classic, AMC, History channel Popular media in national or official archives Flow has a longstanding policy of encouraging non-jargony, highly readable pieces and ample incorporation of images and video. Please send submissions (attached as a Word doc) of between 1000-1500 words to flowtveditor(a)gmail.com no later than May 7, 2010. Images must be accompanied by a hyperlink to their original source on the web or other image credits. FlowTV.org is the University of Texas at Austin, Department of Radio-TV-Film's journal of television and new media. -- Alexander Cho Co-Coordinating Editor, FlowTV.org Doctoral Student University of Texas at Austin Department of Radio-TV-Film

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ICLS 2010 Pre-Conference Workshop CfP: Collaborative Learning with Interactive Surfaces
by michael a evans 18 Mar '10

18 Mar '10

Dear All, Please take a moment to review the workshop CfP below - feel free to distribute to colleagues whom might have interest...and, apologies for any cross-postings... Cheers, Michael~ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Workshop Contributions CfP: http://shareitproject.org/26 Collaborative Learning with Interactive Surfaces: An Interdisciplinary Agenda Palmer House Hilton Hotel, Chicago, IL, USA Monday, 28 June 2010 9:00AM – 5:30PM A preconference event of the 9th International Conference of the Learning Sciences ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OVERVIEW This workshop brings together educators, engineers, and researchers from diverse backgrounds who have a mutual interest in collaborative learning with interactive surfaces. Because they allow multiple users to interact concurrently, new interactive surfaces (tabletops, whiteboards, etc.) have an unprecedented potential to support co- located collaborative learning. As commercial hardware becomes available and software tools mature, research on these technologies need no longer be confined to technologists. This workshop will familiarize participants with the current state of interactive surfaces, connect them with current leaders in the field, and prepare them for starting or refining their own research agenda. The workshop will culminate in planning tangible outcomes that may include grant proposals, a special journal issue, or an edited book on the topic. The target participants are educators, engineers, and researchers from the Learning Sciences (LS) and Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) communities interested in building, implementing, and evaluating interactive surfaces for learning and work. FORMAT The research space on collaborative learning with interactive surfaces is vast and still largely unexplored. To cover this space, the workshop will use the Open Space Technology method to flexibly divide the workshop into smaller groups based on attendee interest. Thus, we can support participants from diverse backgrounds (educators, instructional designers, psychologists, ethnographers, computer scientists, etc.) and diverse interests (laboratory studies, classroom integration, museum use, etc.). All are welcome. The goal of the workshop is both to inform and to build connections between attendees. Breakout sessions will be led by current leaders in the field and will encourage audience participation through discussion and hands on demonstrations. Based on the interest of participants, "birds of a feather" discussion groups will meet in parallel. APPLYING FOR PARTICIPATION Due to space considerations, people interested in participating should express their interest by 16 April 2010. Participants can either apply as presenters, requiring a 2-page abstract, or as attendees. For details on applying for participation, see the website: http://shareitproject.org/26 ORGANIZERS * Michael A. Evans, Department of Learning Sciences & Technologies, Virginia Tech, mae(a)vt.edu URL: http://www.colab.soe.vt.edu/itemL/ * Jochen "Jeff" Rick, Department of Computing, Open University, j.rick(a)open.ac.uk URL: http://www.je77.com/research An online copy of this CFP and up-to-date details of the workshop, including a list of presenters and titles for their presentations, can be found on the website: http://shareitproject.org/26

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Re: [Air-L] Q: Twitter text logs?
by Reynol Junco 18 Mar '10

18 Mar '10

Doron, I would recommend using the Twitter API directly. Here is the page in the Twitter API Wiki that explains how to correctly call on the API for a search : http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-Search-API-Method:-search. When you make such a call into the API, it will return an XML file that can be imported into MS Excel (Windows only-- sorry, fellow Mac users). I wrote a step-by-step blog post on how to do this using the "user timeline" method when we were in the middle of our Twitter research project last semester: http://reyjunco.tumblr.com/post/219287195/how-to-export-twitter-updates-to-… If you want to download a lot of tweets, make sure you pay particular attention to the *rpp* (returns per page) and the *page* parameters. I have a lot of experience with this as we downloaded and archived almost 3,500 tweets during our 15-week-long study. So, please let me know if you have any questions. Best, Rey Junco -- Dr. Reynol Junco Associate Professor Department of Academic Development and Counseling Director, Disability Services Lock Haven University http://www.reyjunco.com ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:02:22 +0200 From: "Friedman Doron" <doronf(a)idc.ac.il> To: <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Q: Twitter text logs? Message-ID: <EAC062C903BCD049AE7C3602A2F373A5AFC1EB(a)JAMES.idc.ac.il> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi, Can anyone point us to authentic data from twitter that can be used for research purposes? We are looking for sub-networks of followers, and a set of texts generated by users that belong to the network. Alternatively status messages from Facebook with the corresponding friendship graphs can be useful as well. of course, the actual usernames can be encrypted for privacy. Of course we will give full credit to whoever has been able to harvest such data and make it available to the research community. Thanks! - doron ==================== Dr. Doron Friedman Lecturer, The Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya (Israel) & Honorary Lecturer, University College London Mobile: +972-54-4461807 Office: +972-9-9527654 http://www.idc.ac.il/communications/avl -- Dr. Reynol Junco Associate Professor Department of Academic Development and Counseling Director, Disability Services Lock Haven University http://www.reyjunco.com

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CfP: ICTs-and-Society: A new Transdiscipline? until March 21, 2010
by Celina Raffl 18 Mar '10

18 Mar '10

apologize for cross-postings CfP: ICTs-and-Society: A new Transdiscipline? Submission due date: March 21st, 2010 Just a gentle reminder that the deadline for the special issue on "ICTs-and-Society: A new Transdiscipline?" is approaching! We are looking for contributions that discuss whether or not ICTs-and-Society research can be considered a cross-, inter-, or transdiscipline and what impact this has on research, methods, theories, practice, and teaching; for the education of early stage researchers and the future of the field. Further info on the call can be found at http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/announcement/view/6 or below. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact me: Celina.Raffl(a)sbg.ac.at. We are looking forward to your contributions! :: Celina Raffl and Joseph Brenner Besides that, we are also organizing a workshop on the same topic, which will be held on on Friday, July 2nd 2010 at the IN3 in Castelldefels, near Barcelona. We would like to invite those interested in participating in the workshop to prepare a position paper (not more than 5 pages) on this topic. Submission due date: May 31 2010 We will circulate these position papers among the participants in advance to ensure a deep discussion. The position papers can also be made available as "Reflection" in TripleC. There will be a second deadline for full paper submissions on July 18th 2010 for those who attend the workshop. These contributions will be added to the Special Issue (making use of the advantage of online publishing!) and appear in autumn 2010. For inquires please do not hesitate contacting me at celina.raffl(a)sbg.ac.at. Regards, :: Celina Raffl

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