Seminars & Conferences

First day of the conference; see the program here

Second day; see the program here.

Further details

4 pm Welcome to all from Johanna

4:05 - 4:45 pm Helen’s Talk

4:45 - 5 pm A short break with some questions

5 pm Launch proper
Main Speaker: Nick Evans
Second Speaker: Bruce Moore
A few words: Anna
A few words: Helen

Dr Timothy Baldwin (http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~tim/) is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Melbourne and a contributed research staff member of the NICTA Victoria Research Laboratories. He has held visiting positions at the University of Saarland and Tokyo University, and was a researcher at CSLI for 3 years. His research---funded by the NSF, NTT, ARC, Google, Microsoft and others---covers topics including deep linguistic processing, multiword expressions, computer-assisted language learning for Japanese, deep lexical acquisition, information extraction and web mining, with a particular interest on the interface between computational and theoretical linguistics.

Phil Rose is Reader in Phonetics and Chinese linguistics at the ANU, and has been British Academy Visiting Professor at the Joseph Bell Centre for Forensic Statistics and Legal Reasoning at the University of Edinburgh. He is author of Forensic Speaker Identification, in the Taylor & Francis Forensic Science Series, and The Technical Comparison of Forensic Voice Samples in the legal reference series Expert Evidence. He has also published widely on forensic speaker identification. He is chairman of the Forensic Speech Science Committee of the Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association, and former Member of Council of the International Phonetic Association. He has done research for almost 30 years on similarities and differences between individuals in their speech, and has been undertaking forensic speaker identification case-work in Chinese and Australian English for well over a decade.

Steven Bird is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Melbourne, and Senior Research Associate in the Linguistic Data Consortium at the University of Pennsylvania. He completed a PhD on computational phonology at the University of Edinburgh in 1990. He later moved to Cameroon to conduct linguistic fieldwork on the Grassfields Bantu languages under the auspices of the Summer Institute of Linguistics. More recently, he spent several years as Associate Director of the Linguistic Data Consortium where he led an R&D team to create models and tools for large databases of annotated text. At Melbourne University, he established a language technology research group and has taught at all levels of the undergraduate computer science curriculum. In 2009, Steven is President of the Association for Computational Linguistics.

Joseph Lo Bianco holds the Chair of Language and Literacy Education at The University of Melbourne and is also Associate Dean (International) Graduate School of Education. He is Honorary Professor in Language Education at the University of Hong Kong.

He wrote Australia’s first National Policy on Languages in 1987, the first multilingual national language policy in an English speaking country. He was Director of the National Languages and Literacy Institute of Australia between 1989 and 2001. He has been an invited consultant advising on language and literacy planning, bilingualism, integration of indigenous and immigrant children into mainstream schools, anti-racist and multicultural education in many countries including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Ireland, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Thailand, Italy, Vietnam, several Pacific Island nations and Scotland. His recent books include: Australian Literacies: Informing National Policy on Literacy Education (with P. Freebody, 2001); Australian Policy Activism in Language and Literacy (with R. Wickert, 2001); Voices from Phnom Penh, Development and Language, 2002; Teaching Invisible Culture: Classroom Practice and Theory (with C. Crozet 2003); and Language Policy in Australia, (Council of Europe, 2004) and a Special Issue of the International Journal Language Policy entitled The Emergence of Chinese (2007). In press are China and English: Globalisation and Dilemmas of Identity and Language Learning from the Inside, a volume on Italian and Japanese in Australian schools.

About the speaker: Professor Tony Woodbury teaches at the University of Texas at Austin, and is visiting the Australian National University (Department of Linguistics, RSPAS) in February 2009 under the Academic Visitors' Scheme. A leading figure in the movement to document endangered languages, he has special interests in verbal art in indigenous American languages. He is centrally involved in the Center for the Indigenous Languages of Latin America, which has become the world centre for the training of Latin American students interested in the indigenous languages of the Americas