ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
COCOSDA, the Coordinating Committee on Speech Databases and Assessment,
was founded in 1991, and has held yearly workshops ever since.
The 1997 COCOSDA workshop, on the theme "Standards and Tools for
Linguistic Annotation of Speech Databases," will take place at the
Convention Centre of the Rodos Palace Hotel, in Rhodes, Greece, on the
two days following the Eurospeech meeting: Friday, September 26 and
Saturday, September 27. It will be co-located with the COST workshop
on "Speech Technology in the Public Telephone Network: Where are we
today?" held in the same facility on the same two days. Overall
registration is limited to 200, 100 from each organization.
COCOSDA aims to promote collaborative work and information exchange
for resources and standards in Spoken Language Engineering. It
maintains working groups on Speech Corpora and Labelling, Speech
Synthesis Assessment, and Speech Recognition Assessment. COCOSDA
workshops include reports on relevant activities around the world, and
discussions of topics of mutual interest.
Further information about COCOSDA can be found at the URL
http://www.itl.atr.co.jp/cocosda/, and further information about COST
(European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical
Research) can be found at http://www2.cordis.lu/cost/src/intro.htm.
Submissions on the theme of COCOSDA'97, as well as other relevant
subjects, are invited.
REGISTRATION FOR COCOSDA'97
To register for COCOSDA97, see http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/cocosda97.
COCOSDA'97 attendees are welcome to attend sessions of the COST
workshop as well, though they will have to register separately for
COST in order to get a copy of the proceedings.
On Friday afternoon, there will be a joint COST/COCOSDA session on the
topic of Speech Recognition.
On Friday morning and Saturday afternoon, COCOSDA'97 will meet
separately from COST. There will be both reports of general interest
and presentations on the workshop theme.
On Saturday morning, the three COCOSDA working groups (on Speech
Corpora and Labelling, Speech Synthesis Assessment, and Speech
Recognition Assessment) will meet separately, as arranged by their
individual organizers.
INFORMATION FOR COCOSDA'97 PRESENTERS
COCOSDA'97 is focused on standards and tools for linguistic annotation
of speech databases. If you would like to make a presentation on the
workshop theme, or on another topic within COCOSDA's area of interest,
please register for the workshop and send an abstract of 500 words or
less to cocosda97@ldc.upenn.edu. If possible, include a URL for
papers or project descriptions. All good-faith submissions will be
accommodated, though some may have to be placed in a poster session.