The Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing Society of Singapore is pleased to announce that the Oriental COCOSDA 2003 will be held in Singapore on June 24-26, 2003. This meeting will be held concurrently with the 17th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 17)

Oriental COCOSDA is an international workshop held annually by the oriental chapter of The International Committee for the Co-ordination and Standardization of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques for Speech Input/Output. The first preparatory meeting was held in Hong Kong and then the past five workshops were held in Japan, Taiwan, China Mainland, Korea and Thailand.

Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques for Speech Input/Output, including, but not limited to:

- speech databases and corpora
- assessment of speech technologies
- speech input and output
- phonetic systems for oriental langauges
- segmentation and labeling
- speech processing models and systems
- multilingual speech corpora
- special topics on speech databases and assessments
- any other relevant topics.

Paper should be submitted electronically to website http://cslp.comp.nus.edu.sg/cgi-bin/journal/Review1.exe. Please register as a user first. In case of difficulties, you may also submit you paper as an e-mail attachment to: luakt@comp.nus.edu.sg.

The maximum length of a paper is 8 A4-sized pages, 11pt, double-spaced throughout. For e-mail submission, the first page of the submitted paper should bear the following information: the title of the paper, the name(s) of the author(s), affiliations, mailing address, and email address for correspondence. Acceptable file formats are PostScript (.ps), Portable Document Format (.pdf), MS Word (.doc), and plain text. Please separate the first page from the main body of the paper so that it can be reviewed anonymously. There is no need to include this page if your paper is submitted electronically to our web cgi. You would have entered all these to our computer system when you register as a user.

Generally, we do not accept hard copy submission for this conference. Hard copy will only be accepted under extreme conditions. Please email to : luakt@comp.nus.edu.sg for assistance.

Accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings. Suitable papers may also be considered to be included in a special issue of our Journal of Chinese Language and Computing.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper submission due: March 1, 2003
Notification of acceptance: April 1 2003
Final Manuscript: April 15, 2003
Early Bird registration: May 15, 2003
Deadline for Conference Registration: June 10, 2003

For further information, please contact:

Associate Professor. Kim-Teng Lua,
School of Computing, National University of Singapore
3 Science Drive 2, Singapore 117543
E-mail: luakt@comp.nus.edu.sg
Phone: 6874-2782, Fax: 6779-4580

Oriental COCOSDA 2003 workshop home page:
http://cslp.comp.nus.edu.sg/colips/conference/cocosda2003