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Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 20:07:34
From: Carl Rubino [Carl.Rubino at iarpa.gov]
Subject: Open Automatic Speech Recognition Challenge and Workshop

 
Open Automatic Speech Recognition Challenge and Workshop 
Short Title: OpenASR20 

Date: 03-Nov-2020 - 10-Nov-2020 
Location: Gaithersburg, MD, USA 
Contact: Carl Rubino 
Contact Email: Carl.Rubino at iarpa.gov 
Meeting URL: https://sat.nist.gov/openasr20 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): Amharic (amh)
                     English (eng)
                     Vietnamese (vie)

Meeting Description: 

The goal of the OpenASR20 is to assess the state of the art of ASR
technologies for low-resource languages. The OpenASR20 Challenge is an open
challenge created out of the IARPA (Intelligence Advanced Research Projects
Activity) MATERIAL (Machine Translation for English Retrieval of Information
in Any Language) program that encompasses more tasks, including CLIR
(cross-language information retrieval), domain classification, and
summarization. For every year of MATERIAL, NIST supports a simplified, smaller
scale evaluation open to all, focusing on a particular technology aspect of
MATERIAL. CLIR technologies were the focus of the first open challenge in
2019, OpenCLIR. In 2020, the focus is on ASR. The capabilities tested in the
open challenges are expected to ultimately support the MATERIAL task of
effective triage and analysis of large volumes of data, in a variety of
less-studied languages.
 

Announcement: 

IARPA and NIST would like to announce that the Development Period for the
OpenASR20 Speech Recognition Challenge has officially commenced, but we are
still accepting registrations. Training and development data are now available
to all registrants in the ten languages of the challenge: Amharic, Cantonese,
Guarani, Javanese, Kurmanji, Mongolian, Pashto, Somali, Tamil and Vietnamese.

For more information and to participate, please visit:
https://sat.nist.gov/openasr20

Development Period: Started
Evaluation period: November 3-10, 2020
System description due to NIST: November 23, 2020





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