Call for Papers: Oriental COCOSDA 2008

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.

This time three speakers will kindly provide keynote speeches.

Keynote 1: “ASR for Resource Deficient Languages”, Prof. Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Keynote 2: “Attribute-Based Universal Phone Modeling for Multilingual Speech Recognition”, Prof. Chin-hui Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology

Keynote 3: To be announced soon Dr. Stephanie Strassel, Linguistic Data Consortium

Papers are invited on substantial, original and unpublished research on all aspects of speech databases, assessments and speech I/O, including, but not limited to: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

* Please refer to the Web site: http://www. atr . jp /o-cocosda200 8

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.

ORIENTAL-COCOSDA COMMITTEES Conference Chair Satoshi Nakamura (NICT/ATR, Japan) Conference Co-Chair Chiu-yu Tseng (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

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)

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)

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)

Important Dates

Submission of one page abstract Aug. 29th , 2008

Notification of acceptance of paper Sept 19th , 2008

Final Manuscript Oct. 24th , 2008

Early Registration for authors Oct. 24th, 2008

Early Bird Registration on or Oct. 31rd, 2008

Workshop Nov. 25-27th, 2008