International Symposium on Asian Speech Resources
In commemoration of the 10 years’ continued activities of Oriental COCOSDA
The purpose of Oriental COCOSDA is to exchange ideas, to share information and to discuss regional matters oncreation, utilization, dissemination of spoken language corpora of oriental languages and also on the assessment
methods of speech recognition/synthesis systems as well as to promote speech research on oriental languages. Afterthe preparatory meeting held in Hong Kong in 1997, a series of annual international workshops has been held in Japan,Taiwan, China, Korea, Thailand, Singapore, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Vietnam. The Oriental COCOSDA 2008
conference, scheduled to take place in Kyoto, Japan on 25-27 Nov. 2008, highlights the first decade of sustained
activities of Oriental COCOSDA by bringing the research community back to Japan where the first meeting was heldin 1998.
The current symposium, scheduled right after Oriental COCOSDA 2008 to address the Japanese researchcommunity, is also organized to commemorate 10 years of sustained activities of Oriental COCOSDA. The objectiveof the symposium is to introduce recent activities on language resources in Asia and to find a better way of mutual
collaboration. Seven researchers from the Oriental COCOSDA community are invited to talk at the symposium. They
come from various countries in Asia and have worked on and with language resources with different languages.
Organizer:

National Institute of Informatics (NII), Oriental COCOSDA, GSK

Auspices:Technical Committee on Speech, Acoustical Society of Japan
Technical Group of Speech, Inst. of Electronics, Inform. and Communication Engineers

Date:Fri. 28 Nov., 2008

10:45 – 16:45

Venue:

National Institute of Informatics (NII), Meeting Room (12F)
2-1-2 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo (http://www.nii.ac.jp/introduce/access1.shtml)

URL:

http://research.nii.ac.jp/src/symp2008/【Program】
Moderator: Prof. S. Itahashi (National Institute of Informatics (NII)/AIST, Japan)
10:45-11:00 Opening address
Prof. Y. Tohkura (Deputy Director, National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan)
11:00-11:30 Speech and language resources and technologies of some Indian languages
Dr. S. S. Agrawal (CDAC, Noida and KIIT Institutions, Gurgaon, India)
11:30-12:00 Recent activities of Chinese Corpus Consortium (CCC)
Prof. T. Fang Zheng (Tsinghua University, China)
13:30-14:00 Speech Resources in Thai
Dr. Chai Wutiwiwatchai (National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC), Thailand)
14:00-14:30 Recent activities of Speech Information Technology and Industry Promotion Center (SITEC) in Korea
Prof. Y-J Lee (Wonkwang University/SITEC, Korea)
14:30-15:00 Speech and language resources of Indonesian languages
Dr. Hammam Riza (Agency for Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT), Indonesia)
15:30-16:00 Some recent developments of speech resources for Vietnamese
Dr. Vu Tat Thang, Dr. Luong Chi Mai (Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology (VAST), Vietnam)
16:00-16:30 Speech and language resources at NICT/ATR
Dr. S. Nakamura (National Institute of Communications Technology (NICT)/ATR-SLC, Japan)
16:30-16:45 Closing address
Dr. C-Y Tseng (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)