Call for contributions to the Cocosda 2003 workshop

[Magali Jeanmaire]

Apologizes for multiple posting
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COCOSDA Workshop 2003 - Sunday 31st August 2003 - 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 announcement and Call for contributions

The next COCOSDA workshop will be organized on Sunday 31st August just
before the start of the
Eurospeech conference (Interspeech) that is taking place in Geneva
(Switzerland) from Monday 1st
September to Thursday 4th September.

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 on even years and Eurospeech on odd Years (now
Interspeech).
This year the workshop will be on Sunday 31st August, right before
Eurospeech 2003 in Geneva, Switzerland.

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

The COCOSDA Workshop 2003 will be organized to address all issues relevant
to COCOSDA.
You are invited to participate in the workshop. 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. A web based "Workshop
Notes" will be published.

If you would like to contribute, please send a short proposal to  Khalid
Choukri, COCOSDA convenor, at: choukri at elda.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 EuroSpeech please visit the conference URL at:
http://www.symporg.com/eurospeech/Information_venue.asp