Oriental COCOSDA 2011 program
Day 1: Wed. 26, Oct. 09:30 Opening 10:00 Keynote 1:
11:00 Coffee Break 11:30 Session 1: Speech Corpora I Chairs: Yoshinori Sagisaka, Waseda University, Japan Aijun Li, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China 1. Phonotactic and Discourse Aspects of Content Design in AESOP (Asian English Speech cOrpus Project)
2. Development of Hindi Mobile Communication Text and Speech Corpus
3. The Design and Development of PELECAN (Pronunciation Errors from Learners of English Corpus and Annotation)
4. Construction of Speech Corpus of AESOP-SD
5. Design and Creation of Dysarthric Speech Database for Development of QoLT Software Technology
6. Bengali Speech Corpus for Continuous Automatic Speech Recognition System
13:00 Lunch 14:00 Keynote 2:
15:00 Session 2: Prosody and Language Learning Chairs: Keikichi Hirose, the University of Tokyo, Japan Chung-Hsien Wu, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan 1. Prosodic Comparison of Declarative and Interrogative Utterances in Standard Colloquial Bangla
2. A Comparative Study on Accentuation Implementation of Chinese EFL Learners vs. American Native Speakers
3. A Preliminary Study on the Transcription of Chinese Intonation
4. Intonation Patterns of Exclamations for Chinese EFL Learners from Zhenjiang
5. The Influence of Shandong Dialects on the Acquisition of English Plosives
6. Enunciate: An Internet-Accessible Computer-Aided Pronunciation Training System and Related User Evaluations
16:30 Coffee Break 17:00 Session 3: Speech Processing Chair: Thomas Fang Zheng, Tsinghua University, China Yong Ju Lee, Wonkwang University, Korea1. Adaptive Noise Estimation and Reduction based on Two-Stage Wiener Filtering in MCLT Domain
2. A Question-and-Answer Classification Technique for Constructing and Managing Spoken Dialog System
3. Feature Normalization and Selection for Robust Speaker State Recognition
4. Unsupervised Spoken Term Detection with Acoustic Segment Model
5. Morpheme Concatenation Approach in Language Modeling for Large-Vocabulary Uyghur Speech Recognition
6. The Role of Speech Technology in Service-Operation Estimation
18:30 End of Session 3 19:00 Welcome Reception
Day 2: Thu. 27, Oct. 09:00 Keynote 3:
10:00 Coffee Break 10:30 Session 4: Speech Corpora II Chairs: Hammam Riza, BPPT, Indonesia Bhim Narayan Regmi, CECODES, Nepal 1. CECOS: A Chinese-English Code-Switching Speech Database
2. Acoustic Parameter Databases of Daur, Evenki, Oroqen Nationalities
3. Mongolian Speech Corpus for Text-To-Speech Development
4. The Development of a Database of Functional and Emotional Intonation in Chinese
5. A Multimodal Corpus for Modeling Turn Management in Multi-Party Conversations
6. MAM: A Multi-Accent Mandarin Corpus
12:00 Lunch 13:00 Excursion & Banquet
Day 3: Fri. 28, Oct. 09:00 Keynote 4:
10:00 Coffee Break 10:30 Session 5: Labeling, Analysis and Management of Speech Corpora Chairs: Satoshi Nakamura, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Karunesh Kumar Arora, CDAC, Noida, India 1. Unsupervised Phone Segmentation Method Using Delta Spectral Function
2. Interactive Visualization and Search System for Speech Corpora
3. Creation of Acoustic Signal Dictionary for ESNOLA based Concatenated Bangla and Nepali TTS System
4. Annotation of Japanese Response Tokens and Preliminary Analysis on their Distribution in Three-Party Conversations
5. Assessing the Naturalness of Malay Emotional Voice Corpora
6. Acoustic Feature and Variance of Uigur Vowels
12:00 Lunch 13:00 Poster Chairs: Chia-Ping Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan Yuan-Fu Liao, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan 1. Oriya Voice Conversional Text-to-Speech System
2. Subjective Evaluation of Joint Modeling of Pause Insertion and F0 Contour Generation in Text-to-Speech Synthesis of Bangla
3. Framework of Real-Time Speech Translation System based on Constraint Synchronous Grammar Francisco Oliveira, Fai Wong and Sam Chao 4. Specifications for Mixed Language Speech Corpora: A Proposal
5. Ontological Knowledge Database for Bangla Verb Arguments
6. Enabling Rapid Prototyping of an Existing Speech Solution into Another Language
7. Development of Female Voice Speech Synthesiser for Hindi Language
8. Developing a Kashmiri Morphological Analyzer/Generator
9. Influence of Verb PoS on the Accuracy Translation from Indonesian to Interlingua
10. Typology of Verb Agreement in the Languages of Nepal
11. Qualitative and Quantitative Classification of Bangla Vowel
12. Tonal Patterns of Shandong Dialects - a case study of Liaocheng and Tai’an
13. Interaction of CR and CC in Tone Sandhi Patterning of Shandong Three-Toned Dialects
14. Modeling Spectral Dynamics for Classification of Vowels in Mandarin Chinese
15. Construction of the Speech Corpus Retrieval System: Corpus Search & Catalog-Search
16. Prosodic Word Boundary Detection for Bangla based on Empirical Mode Decomposition of F0 Contour
17. Study on the Corpus-based Mongolian Words
18. Putonghua Shuiping Ceshi (PSC) Speech Corpus for Mandarin Pronunciation Test in Xiang Dialect Area
19. Developing a Digitized Phoneme Database for Sinhala Language
20. Verification of a Rich Arabic Speech Database
21. Study on Mandarin Chinese Short Message Database
22. Multimodal Corpus Using Multimodal Dictionary in Lohorung
23. PBDP based Real-Time Speaker Identification System Using Excitation Source Modeling Features
24. Voice Enabled Railway Travel Enquiry System: An IVR Application on Bangla Automatic Speech Recognition
25. Performance of Hmm based Hindi Speech Recognizer Using a Combination of Phoneme and Pause Model
14:00 Coffee Break 14:30 Country Reports 17:30 Closing 18:00 End of Conference |