LINGUIST List 15.2492

Wed Sep 8 2004

Confs: Computational Ling/Jeju Island, Korea

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COCOSDA 2004 Workshop 

Date: 04-Oct-2004 - 04-Oct-2004
Location: Jeju Island, Korea, Republic of
Contact: Khalid Choukri
Meeting URL: http://www.cocosda.org 

Linguistic Sub-field: Computational Linguistics 

Meeting Description:

The next COCOSDA workshop will be organized on Monday 4th October,
parallel to the INTERSPEECH 2004 - ICSLP conference, held from 4th to
8th October 2004.

The International Committee for the Co-ordination and Standardization
of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques (COCOSDA), has been
established to encourage and promote international interaction and
cooperation in the foundation areas of Spoken Language Processing.

COCOSDA is an international organization for coordinating the
globalized efforts in Language resource developments and speech
technology evaluation. The annual workshops of COCOSDA have been held
as satellite events of ICSLP and Eurospeech, now Interspeech. This
year, the workshop will be organised on Monday, 4th October at
Interspeech 2004 - ICSLP conference in Korea.

The next COCOSDA workshop will be organized on Monday 4th October,
parallel to the INTERSPEECH 2004 - ICSLP conference, held from 4th to
8th October 2004.

The International Committee for the Co-ordination and Standardization
of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques (COCOSDA), has been
established to encourage and promote international interaction and
cooperation in the foundation areas of Spoken Language Processing.

COCOSDA is an international organization for coordinating the
globalized efforts in Language resource developments and speech
technology evaluation. The annual workshops of COCOSDA have been held
as satellite events of ICSLP and Eurospeech, now Interspeech. This
year, the workshop will be organised on Monday, 4th October at
Interspeech 2004 - ICSLP conference in Korea.

COCOSDA is organized with a structure which reflects the two
dimensions of its functionalities: ''Topic Domains'' and ''Regional
Programs''. The former considers the dynamic technology environments,
while the latter addresses the regional efforts and differences.

Four topic domains have been established:
- Evaluation of Speech Understanding/Dialogue Systems, 
- Multi-Modal Corpora, 
- Corpus Annotation Tools,
- Local Languages.

Six regional programs are currently present:
- North America, 
- Europe, 
- Asia, 
- Oceania, 
- Latin America,
- Africa.

You are invited to participate in the workshop, which will be
organized to address all issues relevant to COCOSDA. The final program
of the workshop is under construction (see below a first draft) and
will be circulated shortly.

It includes pre-organized reports for all regional programs mentioned
above and other relevant reports/discussions, plus presentations from
the open-call submissions.

If you would like to contribute, please send a short proposal to:
Khalid Choukri
COCOSDA convenor
choukrielda.fr & infoelda.fr

More information about COCOSDA can be found at: http://www.cocosda.org

This is a first general announcement and a call for contributions.

The main items that are planned within the workshop would cover:
- Welcome and General Introduction to the Workshop and COCOSDA
- Recent Activities in South Africa
- Recent Activities of Oriental COCOSDA, Recent developments in China
and Korea
- Recent Activities in Europe and in the Mediterranean Area
- Recent Activities in North America
- Recent Activities in Latin America
- Recent Activities in Oceania
- Developments and trends in speech technologies for local languages
- General Discussion: COCOSDA mission, Partnership with other
organizations, etc.

We also seek proposals for contributions on Language resources and
evaluation hot topics such as recent activities related to:
- Multimodal Projects
- Dialog
- Speech to Speech Technologies
- Corpus annotation
- Etc.
and any other topic that may be of interest to the audience of COCOSDA
workshops.

For information about Interspeech-ICSLP 2004 conference, please visit
the conference web site at: http://www.icslp2004.org/