[Corpora-List] TC-STAR Third Evaluation Campaign 2007 - Call for Participation

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    TC-STAR Third Evaluation Campaign 2007


      Call for Participation


TC-STAR is an European integrated project focusing on Speech-to-Speech 
Translation (SST). To encourage significant advances in all SST 
technologies, annual competitive evaluations are organized. Automatic 
Speech Recognition (ASR), Spoken Language Translation (SLT) and 
Text-To-Speech (TTS) are evaluated independently and within an 
end-to-end system. The project targets a selection of unconstrained 
conversational speech domains---speeches and broadcast news---and three 
languages: European English, European Spanish, and Mandarin Chinese.

*The second evaluation campaign took place in March 2006 and was 
concluded by an international workshop 
<http://www.elda.org/tcstar-workshop_2006>. TC-STAR welcomes outside 
participants in its 3rd evaluation of January-February 2007. This 
participation is free of charge. *

The TC-STAR 2007 evaluation campaign will consider:

*SLT in the following directions
*a) Chinese-to-English (Broadcast News)
b) Spanish-to-English (European Parliament plenary speeches; Cortes 
Spanish Parliament speeches)
c) English-to-Spanish (European Parliament plenary speeches)

The SLT evaluation of European Parliament plenary speeches will cover 
three types of input:
1. ASR output (single best sentence, and more: N-best, word lattices)
2. verbatim transcription,
3. final text edition.

*ASR in the following languages
*a) English (European Parliament plenary speeches)
b) Spanish (European Parliament plenary speeches; Cortes Spanish 
Parliament speeches)
c) Mandarin Chinese (Broadcast News)

*TTS in Chinese, English, and Spanish under the following conditions:
*a) Complete system: participants use their own training data
b) Voice conversion intralingual and crosslingual, expressive speech: 
data provided by TC-STAR
c) Component evaluation

For ASR and SLT, training data will be made available by the TC-STAR 
project for English and Spanish and can be purchased at LDC for Chinese. 
Development data will be provided by the TC-STAR project. Legal issues 
regarding the data will be detailed in the 2nd Call For Participation.

All participants will be given the opportunity to present and discuss 
their results in the 3rd TC-STAR evaluation* workshop in Aachen in March 
2007*.


Tentative schedule:
Registration: October 2006 (early expression of interest is welcome)
ASR evaluation: from 21st of January to 28th of January 2007
SLT evaluation: from 31st of January to 7th February 2007
TTS evaluation: from 9th of February to15th of February 2007

Workshop: March 28-30, 2007 in Aachen, Germany


Contact: Djamel Mostefa (ELDA)
e-mail: mostefa at elda.org
tel. +33 1 43 13 33 33