Important dates:

First Announcement and Call for Papers: Oriental COCOSDA 2010

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 Papers are invited on substantial, original and unpublished research on all aspects of speech databases, assessments and speech I/O, including, but not limited to: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

Satellite Workshop: A special session will also be held for presentation of country reports.

Co-located events

WPST10

A one-day workshop titled "Phonetics and Speech Technology" (WPST10) at TIFR, Mumbai on Friday, November 19, 2010
http://speech.tifr.res.in/workshop/wpst10/index.html

Satellite Workshop on AESOP

The second international workshop on Asian English Speech Corpus Project on Nov. 23, 2010 also in Kathmandu, Nepal original contributions study papers and work done in this area are invited for presentation in this workshop.

The chair of this workshop is:
Prof. Yoshinori Sagisaka
Faculty of Science and Engineering
School of Global Information & Telecom Studies 1-104,
Totsukamachi, Shinguku, Tokyo - 1698050 Japan
ysagisaka@gmail.com

LSN

31st Annual Conference of Linguistic Society of Nepal at Kathmandu, on November 26-27, 2010 A 2-day conference on Linguistics being held annually on the same dates from past 30 years and being a forum for Nepalese and foreign linguists working mainly but not limited to Nepalese languages. Papers have already been called, the deadline is August 23, 2010 a 120 to150-words abstract has to be submitted.

Contact:
Bhim Gautam:bgautam2003@yahoo.com
Bhim Regmi:bhimregmi@gmail.com
Kamal Poudel:kpoudelnp@yahoo.com