Dear All,
I am glad to announce that 13th Oriental COCOSDA workshop/conference is
going to be held in Kathmandu this November (24th - 25th) 2010.
Oriental chapter of the International Committee for the Co-ordination and
Standardization of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques organizes
international workshops which are held annually in differerent Oriental
countries. The first preparatory meeting was held in Hong Kong
in 1997 and the other twelve workshops were held in following
countries/regions: Japan, Taiwan, China, Korea, Thailand, Singapore, India,
Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Japan and China. This year the
workshop/conference is going to be hosted by Centre for Communication and
Development Studies in Kathmandu.
We would like to formally invite all the FOSS enthusiasts to the
workshop/conference.
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Important dates:
- Submission of full paper : July 31, 2010
- Notification of acceptance : Aug. 30, 2010
- Submission of final paper : Sep. 15, 2010
- Registration for authors : Oct.15, 2010
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First Announcement and Call for Papers: Oriental COCOSDA 2010The
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
13th Oriental COCOSDA Workshop will be held on November 24-25, in Kathmandu,
Nepal. 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 twelve workshops were held in following countries/regions:
Japan, Taiwan, China, Korea, Thailand, Singapore, India, Indonesia, Malaysia,
Vietnam, Japan and China.
Oriental COCOSDA workshop in Nepal will help in boosting the research
and development
in the field of Speech Technology and as well as further enthuse wider
interests
towards Speech Technology in East, Southeast and Middle Asia in general. 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are invited on substantial, original and unpublished research on all aspects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:Resources:1. Native and non-native, speech, text and spoken language
corpora
2. Monolingual and multilingual speech, text and spoken language corpora
3. Multimodal and multilingual spoken language corpora
Systems:1. Phonetic/phonological, orthographic and prosodic systems of oriental
languages
2. Speech input/output systems
3. Spoken language dialogue
4. Machine translation and machine aided translation
5. Machine aided learning
6. Segmentation and labeling
7. Speech prosody and labelling
Assessment and Standardization:1. Spoken language resources
2. Spoken language technology
3. Orthography
4. Segmentation and labeling
5. Assessment of speech technologies
Applications:1. Speech Processing Models & Systems
2. Spoken Language Processing Technology
OR Any other relevant topics
A few invited talks by eminent experts in these areas will also be
delivered.
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O-COCOSDA 2010 Committee Conference Chair Professor Jai Raj Awasthi,
Tribhuban University, Kathmandu
Conference Co-Chair Dr. Chiu-yu Tseng, Academia Sinica, Taipei
Conference Secretary Mr. Bhim Narayan Regmi, CECODES, Kathmandu
Organizing Committee Mr. Krishna Prasad Parajuli, CECODES, Kathmandu
Mr. Sagun Dhakhwa, CECODES, Kathmandu
Mr. Gelu Sherpa, CECODES, Kathmandu
Mr. Kamal Poudel, CECODES, Kathmandu
Mr. Bhim Lal Gautam, CECODES, Kathmandu
Mr. Sandeep Khatri, CECODES, Kathmandu
Mr. Asoke Datta, CDAC, Kolkata
Dr. Om Vikas, CDAC, Noida
Pushpak Bhattacharya, IIT, Mumbai
Mrs. Swarn Lata, DIT, MCIT
Advisory Committee Honorable Nilkantha Upreti, Executive Chief Commissioner,
Election Commission, Nepal
Honorable Tirtha Raj Khaniya, Member, National Planning Commission, Nepal
Honorable Manohar Kumar Bhattarai, Vice Chairman, HLCIT, Nepal
Professor Chura Mani Bandhu, Nepal
Professor Tej Ratna Kansakar, Nepal
Professor Novel Kishore Rai, CNAS, Tribhuvan University,Nepal
Professor Govinda Raj Bhattarai, Tribhuvan University, Nepal
B.Yegnanarayana, IIIT, Hyderabad, India
Hema Murthy, IIT, Madras, India
Professor Hiroya Fujisaki, Japan
D.D. Majumdar, ISI, Kolkata, India
P.V.S. Rao,Former-Head-CSC & Speech Tech. Group
Rajeev Sanjal, IIIT, Hyderabad, India
Dr. RMK Sinha, IIT, Kanpur, India
Professor Shuichi Itahashi, NII/AIST, Japan
President IETE ED-CDAC, Noida , India ED-CDAC, Kolkata, India Director-IIIT,
HYD, India Technical Program Committee Chairs Dr. Shyam S. Agrawal (CDAC,
Noida & KIIT, Gurgaon, India)
Professor Yoshinori Sagisaka (Waseda University, Japan)
Committee Dr. Aijun Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)
Dr. B. Mallikarjun, CIIL, Mysore, India
Dr. Chai Wutiwiwatchai (NECTEC, Thailand)
Dr. Chiu-yu Tseng (Academia Sinica, Taipei)
Dr. Haizhou Li (Institute of Infocom Research, Singapore)
Dr. Hammam Riza (BTTP, Indonesia)
Professor Hideaki Kikuchi (Waseda University, Japan)
Professor Hsiao-Chuan Wang, (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
K K Arora, CDAC, Noida
Dr. K. Samudravijaya (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India)
Dr. Luong Chi Mai (The Vietnamese Academy of Sciences, Vietnam)
Professor Nick Campbell (Trinity College, Ireland)
Professor Rachael Roxas, (De la Salle University-Manila, Philippines)
Professor Sashidhar Ram Joshi, (Institute of Engineering, Department of
Electronics & Computer Engineering, Kathmandu,Nepal)
Dr. Satoshi Nakamura (NICT/ATR, Japan)
Shyamal Das Mandal, CDAC, Kolkata
Swarn lata, DIT,Govt.India
Professor Tan Lee (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Professor Thomas Fang Zheng (Tsing Hua University, Beijing)
Professor Yong Ju Lee (Wonkwang University, Korea)
Professor Zuraidah Mohd Don (University of Malaysia, Malaysia)
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for more details visit : http://desceco.org/O-COCOSDA2010/
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Warm Regards,
Sagun Dhakhwa
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