COCOSDA 2003 - 31st Agust 2003, Geneva - Preliminary Programme

[Magali Jeanmaire]

Apologies for multiple posting
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COCOSDA Workshop 2003 - Sunday 31st August 2003 - 14:00-18:00 - Geneva,
Switzerland

                         In conjunction with EuroSpeech2003

                         Geneva International Conference Centre
(or Centre International  de Conférence de Genève (CICG), 15, rue Varembé,
1202 Geneva )

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                                 PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME

A special poster session will also be taking place. Please see the list below.
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- Welcome and General Introduction to the Workshop and COCOSDA (K. Choukri,
COCOSDA
Convenor and ELRA CEO, France)

- Recent Activities in South Africa (Prof. J.C. Roux, Director of Research
Unit for Experimental
Phonology, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa)

- Recent Activities of Oriental COCOSDA (Prof. S. Itahashi, Institute of
Information Sciences and
Electronics, University of Tsukuba, Japan)

- Recent Activities in China - the current available and future agenda of
language resources (Prof.
Bo Xu, Deputy President of CASIA - Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy
of Sciences)

- An Overview of Speech Corpus related Activities in Korea (Prof. Yong-Ju
Lee, Wonkwang
University, Korea)

- Recent Activities in Europe and in the Mediterranean Area (K. Choukri,
COCOSDA Convenor
and ELRA CEO, France)

- Recent Activities in North America (C. Cieri, Linguistic Data Consortium,
Philadelphia, PA, USA)

- Developments and Trends in Speech Technologies for Local Languages
(Dafydd Gibbon, Linguistic
Department, Bielefeld University, Germany)

- "Biometric databases and Evaluation" (Dijana Petrovska et. al., on behalf
of the Biomet project,
DIUF - Computer Sciences Department, Fribourg University, Switzerland)

- General Discussion: COCOSDA mission, partnership with other organizations
(e.g. the new "COCOSDA"
for written resources), new initiatives (e.g. in India), etc.

For the "Recent Activities in Oceania", a Web address will be given, with
the updates of such activities (Prof.
J.B. Millar, Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering,
Australian National University,
Canberra, Australia)

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POSTER 1: Overview of Speech Corpora for European Portuguese (Astrid Hagen
<astrid at weenie.inesc.pt>)

1/ Identification of existing speech resources (BDFALA, BD-PUBLICO,
SPEECHDAT, ALERT, ...)
2/ Presentation of the major speech corpora regarding:
         2.1 Partners
         2.2 (Eagles) Typology: linguistic contents, speaker
characteristics, data collection, annotation)
         2.3 Research efforts
3/ Recent speech recognition results on Portuguese SpeechDat
         3.1 Using the SpeechDat reference recognizer
         3.2 Using an HMM/MLP hybrid recognizer

POSTER 2: Report on the Activities on Japanese Prosodic Corpus (Prof.
Shigeyoshi Kitazawa,
Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, Japan)

POSTER 3: (provisional title) Validation and Quality of Spoken  Language
Resources, the case of Orientel
project - collection of speech resources for the Mediterranean countries:
Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish, Greek,
French, English, etc. (Dr Dorota J. Iskra, SPEX, Erasmusplein 1, 6525 HT
Nijmegen, the Netherlands)

POSTER 4 (to be confirmed): Speech to Speech Translation (Asuncion Moreno
and Antonio Bonafonte,
TALP Research Center, Departament de Teoria del Senyal i Comunicacions,
Universitat Politècnica
de Catalunyan, Barcelona, Spain)

POSTER 5: A brand new virtual speech archive , "Datenbank Gesprochenes
Deutsch (Dr. Peter Wagener,
Institut für Deutsche Sprache, R 5, 6-13 D-68161 Mannheim, Germany)

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Updates on the programme of the 2003 COCOSDA workshop will ba available
from the
dedicated web site, at www.cocosda.org.



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