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Brief Information about COCOSDA COCOSDA is an international organization for coordinating the globalized efforts in language resources and speech technology evaluation. Currently, COCOSDA is organized with a structure which reflects the two dimensions of its functionalities: "Topic Domains" and "Regional Programs". The former considers the dynamic technology environments, while the latter addresses the regional differences and activities. Four topic domains have been established: Evaluation of Speech Understanding/Dialogue Systems, Multi-Modal Corpora, Corpus Annotation Tools and Local Languages. Six regional programs are currently present: North America, Europe, Asia, Oceania, Latin America and Africa. Complete information of COCOSDA is available at the following Website: http://www.cocosda.org
Cocosda current structure The members of the current Central Coordination Committee (CCC) of COCOSDA include: rapporteurs of all the topic domains and regional programs, data center representatives, advisors, and a convenor, a deputy convenor and a secretary. (I) Working Group: (1) Officers: Convenor: Daffyd Gibon Vice Convenors, Secretary
Cocosda current structure • (2) Rapporteurs for Topic Domains: • Evaluation of Speech Understanding and Dialogue Systems : • Multi-modal Corpora: • Corpus Annotation Tools: • Local Languages: • (3) Rapporteurs for Regional Programs: • Europe : Khalid Choukri (choukri@elda.org) • North America: Christopher Cieri (Christopher.Cieri@ldc.upenn.edu) • Asia : Shuichi Itahashi (itahashi@milab.is.tsukuba.ac.jp) • Oceania : Bruce Millar (Bruce.Millar@anu.edu.au) • Latin America : ??? • Africa : Justus Roux (jcr@maties.sun.ac.za) • (4) Data Center Representatives: • LDC : Christopher Cieri • ELRA : Khalid Choukri Advisory Committee: Adrian Fourcin (adrian@phonetics.UCL.ac.uk) Hiroya Fujisaki (fujisaki@te.noda.sut.ac.jp) Akira Kurematsu (kure@apple.ee.uec.ac.jp) Mark Liberman (myl@unagi.cis.upenn.edu) Joseph Mariani (Joseph.Mariani@limsi.fr) Louis Pols (Louis.Pols@hum.uva.nl)
Big initiatives • Polyphon (back to Genoa) • TED • Aurora • LDC ELRA GSK • National Programs (all over the world) • Large number of Workshops
See Jospeh Mariani slides for more details (Joseph was the first Cocosda Convenor)