Call for Papers: Oriental COCOSDA 2008

[Helene Mazo]

**[Apologies for multiple copies of the announcement]
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*Call for Paper**s**: **Oriental COCOSDA 200**8***

The oriental chapter of COCOSDA (The International Committee for the 
Co-ordination and Standardization of Speech Databases and Assessment 
Techniques) is pleased to announce that the 11th Oriental COCOSDA 
Workshop will be held on Nov. 25-27, in Kyoto, Japan hosted by the 
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan 
(NICT) and Advanced Telecommunication Research Institute International 
(ATR). Oriental COCOSDA is an international workshop held annually by 
the oriental chapter of COCOSDA. The first preparatory meeting was held 
in Hong Kong in 1997 and then the past ten workshops were held in Japan, 
Taiwan, China, Korea, Thailand, Singapore, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, 
and Vietnam. Since the first Oriental COCOSDA meeting was a preparatory 
workshop, this year workshop is the 10-years’ anniversary of the 
Oriental COCOSDA.

 

Oriental COCOSDA workshop in Japan will help in boosting the research 
and development in the field of Speech Technology and will help in 
enthusing the interest towards Speech Technology in East and Southeast Asia.

Papers are invited on substantial, original and unpublished research on 
all aspects of speech databases, assessments and speech I/O, including, 
but not limited to:

*Topics*

·         Speech databases and text corpora

·         Assessment of speech input and output technologies

·         Phonetic/phonological systems for Oriental languages

·         Romanization of Non-Roman Characters

·         Segmentation and labeling

·         Speech Prosody and Labeling

·         Speech processing models and systems

·         Multilingual speech corpora

·         Special topics on speech databases and assessments

·         Standardization

·         Any other relevant topics

*Paper Submission *

Papers should describe original work. The paper should emphasize 
completed work rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly 
the state of completion of the reported results. Each submission will be 
reviewed by at least two reviewers. A paper accepted for presentation at 
Oriental COCOSDA 2008 cannot be presented or have been presented at any 
other meeting with publicly available published proceedings. The format 
and other details of paper submission can be downloaded from the website.**

** /Web site Information will be loaded soon: 
http://www./**/atr/**/./**/jp/**//o-cocosda200/**/8/**//*

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*Submission Process*

Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics 
listed above.  The abstracts for proposed papers of no more than 400 
words (one page) should be submitted for review. All submissions should 
include the following information: the title, names and affiliations of 
the authors, the full address of the first author (or a contact person), 
including phone, fax, e-mail, and URL, and 3 to 5 key words.

  

·       For the purposes of partially automated routing of papers to 
reviewers only, submit one (1) electronic version of the abstract. 
 Acceptable file formats are PostScript (.ps), Portable Document Format 
(.pdf), MS Word (.doc), and plain text.

·       An acknowledgement of your submission will be e-mailed soon 
after receipt.

·         Once your paper has been accepted, submit your camera-ready 
copy along with a signed Copyright Release Statement by the final 
manuscript deadline.

·       Accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings.

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*ORIENTAL-COCOSDA COMMITTEES *

*/Conference Chair    /**/Satoshi Nakamura/**/ (/**/NICT/ATR, 
/**/Japan/**/)/*

*/Conference Co-Chair         /**/Chiu-yu Tseng/**/ (/**/Academia 
/**/Sinica/**/, /**/Taiwan/**/)/*

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*Local Organizing Committee **(NICT/ATR):***

*Eiichiro Sumita (NICT/ATR**, **Japan**)*

*Kentaro Torisawa(NICT, **Japan**)*

*Hideki Kashioka (NICT/ATR**, Japan**)*

*Tohru Shimizu (NICT/ATR**, **Japan**)*

*Kiyotaka Uchimoto(NICT, **Japan**)*

*Dawa Idomuco (NICT**, **Japan**)*

*Yoshinori Sagisaka (**Waseda University**, **Japan**)*

*Toshiyuki Takezawa (**Hiroshima City University**, **Japan**)***

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*Technical Program Committee**　***

*Chair           **Shuichi Itahashi** (**NII/AIST, Japan**)*

*Co-Chair       **S. S. Agrawal (CDAC **Noida**, **India**)*

Yong Ju Lee (Wonkwang University, Korea)

Haizhou Li (Institute of Infocom Research, Singapore)

Chai Wutiwiwatchai (NECTEC, Thailand)

Hammam Riza (BTTP, Indonesia)

*Aijun Li (Chinese **Academy of Social Sciences**, **China**)*

*Thomas Fang Zheng (**Tsinghua University**, **China**)*

*Jianhua Tao (Chinese **Academy of Sciences**, **China**)*

*Tan Lee (Chinese **University** of **Hong Kong**, **Hong Kong**, 
**China**)*

*Qiang Huo (Microsoft Asia, **China**)*

*Samudravijaya (Tata Institute of Fundamental **Research**, **India**)*

*Nick Campbell (NICT/ATR, **Japan**)*

*Hideaki Kikuchi (**Waseda University**, **Japan**) *

*Zuraidah Mohd Don (**Malaysia**)*

*Hsiao-Chuan Wang (**National Tsing Hua University**, **Taiwan**)*

*Luong Chi Mai (**Institute** of **Information** **Technology**, 
**VietNam**)*

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*International Scientific Committee***

*Hiroya Fujisaki (Science **University of Tokyo**, **Japan**)***

*P. C. Ching (Chinese **University of Hong Kong**, **China**)*

Yung-Hwan Oh (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology,

Korea)

Kim-Teng Lua (National University of Singapore, Singapore*_)_*

*Lin-shan Lee (Academia **Sinica**, **Taiwan**)***

Virach Sornlertlamvanich (Thai Computational Linguistics Laboratory, 
NICT Asia Research Center, Thailand)**

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*Important Dates*

*Submission of **one page abstract**                       **Aug. 29^th 
, ** 200**8***

*Noti**fication** of acceptance of paper                    **Sept 19^th 
,   2008***

*Final Manuscript                                 **            Oct. 
 24^th , 2008*

*Early Registration **for authors              **            **Oct**. 
24^th ,    2008***

*Early Bird Registration                                    on or **Oct. 
31^rd , 2008***

*Workshop                                                        **Nov. 
25-27^th , 2008***

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