News and Announcements

  • Jun 30, 2009: [New] InterBEST 2009 Thai Word Segmentation: an International Episode

    This special shared task challenges everyone all over the world who works on string segmentation to solve the problem of Thai word segmentation. As you may know, Thai has been considered one of the most difficult languages for text processing due to its absence of syllable, word, and even sentence boundary markers. The ambiguity in segmenting texts could be higher with a large number of Thai characters and the presences of named entities and loanwords transliterated from Sanskrit, Pali, Chinese, English, etc.

    In this shared task, we are providing for free a huge set of manually word-annotated Thai texts (up to 7M words) distributed in various domains and genres with a guideline for Thai word segmentation. Participants are encouraged to join the InterBEST 2009 workshop co-located with the 8th International Symposium on Natural Language Processing (SNLP 2009) in Bangkok, Thailand, this coming October 2009.

  • Jun 10, 2009: [New] Prof Haizhou LI is elected to ISCA board.

    It is our pleasure to announce that Professor Haizhou Li, Founding Member of ISCSLP and General Chair of ISCSLP 2006, is elected to the ISCA board. Congratulations to Professor Li!  We believe that he will represent us all to the board and perform his duties more than sufficiently.

  • May 20, 2009: The 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010) , Beijing, China, August 23 - 27, 2010

    The International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL) is pleased to announce the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010), to be held in Beijing, China on August 23-27th, 2010. We look forward to welcoming you to Beijing, not only the capital of China, but also a famous city of fantastic history and culture. COLING will cover a broad spectrum of technical areas related to natural language and computation. The conference will include full papers, oral presentations, poster presentations, demonstrations, tutorials, and workshops. We invite the submission of papers on original and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics. More details will be available closer to the April 19, 2010 submission deadline.

  • Apr 24, 2009: O-COCOSDA 2009 paper submission deadline extended.
    The upcoming Oriental-COCOSDA 2009 conference will be held during August 10-12 at Urumuqi, Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China. Please note that the deadline of paper submission has been extended to May 8th. Please visit the conference website at http://o-cocosda2009.xju.edu.cn/

  • Apr 1, 2009: Proceedings of Oriental COCOSDA 2009 will be published in IEEE Xplorer.

    The proceedings of Oriental COCOSDA 2009 will be published in IEEE Xplorer. This is a big step forward towards upgrading the academic standard of O-C workshops. Please visit the updated O-C 2009 website http://o-cocosda2009.xju.edu.cn/ to access the IEEE paper format. The deadline of submission is April 20. 

  • Feb 2, 2009: Job Posts at Nanjing Normal University, China.
    The Department of Linguistic Science and Technology at Nanjing Normal University, China, invites applications for two positions at Associate Professor or Lecturer level in the area of Phonetic Sciences and Speech Technologies. (Details)

  • Jan 22, 2009: O-COCOSDA 2009, Urumqi, China, Aug 10-12, 2009.
    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 12th International Oriental COCOSDA Conference will be held on Aug. 10-12, 2009 in Urumqi, China. The local host and organizer is the School of Information Science and Engineering of Xinjiang University. The paper submission deadline is Apr. 20th , 2009. (Call-for-papers)

  • Jan 19, 2009: In the January 2009 issue of ISCApad, there is a SIG-CSLP report on ISCSLP 2008.

  • Dec 11, 2008: Announcement of FLaReNet (Fostering Language Resources Network)

    FLaReNet is an eContentPlus project funded by the European Commission, officially started on 1st September 2008. It is intended to promote the consolidation of a European strategy in the field of Language Resources and Language Technologies and to be a European forum to facilitate interaction among LR stakeholders.     Details are at: http://www.flarenet.eu/.

  • Dec 9, 2008: Outcome of SIG-CSLP officer election is announced.

  • Nov 9, 2008: Call-for-participation to ISUC 2008. The second International Symposium on Universal Communication will be held in Osaka, Japan on Dec 15 - 16, 2008. The conference website is http://www.is-uc.org/2008/.

  • Oct 17, 2008: Minutes and pictures of SIG-CSLP meeting at Interspeech 2008 in Brisbane are online now.

  • Aug 25, 2008: Nominees of Sig-CSLP officers. The following members have been nominted for the election of SIG-CSLP officers: Chairperson: Chiu-yu Tseng  (10 nominations), Vice Chairperson: Jianhua Tao (6 nominations), Secretary: Bin Ma (7 nominations). (Details of the nomination)

  • August 15, 2008: Call for Papers: O-COCOSDA 2008 in Kyoto, Japan.
    O-COCOSDA 2008 Workshop will be held on Nov. 25-27, in Kyoto, Japan. The deadline for submission of one page abstract is Aug. 29th,  2008. (Download the updated call-for-papers.)

  • July 30, 2008: ISUC 2008: The extended abstract due date has been extended to August 4, 2008 (JST:GMT+9:00).

  • July 10, 2008: ISUC 2008 Call for Papers/Demos
    The second International Symposium on Universal Communication will be held in Osaka, Japan on Dec 15 - 16, 2008. The conference website is http://www.is-uc.org/2008/.

  • June 12, 2008: Extended Paper Submission Deadline: ISCSLP 2008 in Kunming.
    ISCSLP 2008
    The 6th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processinig (ISCSLP 2008) will be held on December 16-19, 2008 in Kunming, hosted by the University of Science and Technology of China and Yunnan University.     The paper submission deadline is now extended to July 29, 2008. (Download the PDF file of the call-for-papers.)

  • May 15, 2008: Membership Enrollment and Nomination of Officer Election.
    The Special Interest Group on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (SIG-CSLP), ISCA solicits your continual support and now calls for free membership enrollment and officer nomination. Major upcoming impeding activities related to confirmed membership are SIG-CSLP officer election and the ISCSLP2008 conference. The term of incumbent officers expires by the end of the calendar year. Membership is required to nominate and to be nominated.

  • May 15, 2008: Call for Papers: International Conference on Asian Language Proceesing 2008 (IALP 2008), Chiang Mai, Thailand.
    The International Conference on Asian Language Proceesing 2008 (IALP 2008) will be held in Chiang Mai, Thailand, on 12-14 Nov. 2008. This conference will be jointly organized by Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing Society (COLIPS) of Singapore and Department of Computer Science, Chiang Mai University of Thailand. 

  • April 30, 2008: Call for Papers: O-COCOSDA 2008 in Kyoto, Japan.
    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 11th Oriental COCOSDA Workshop will be held on Nov. 25-27, in Kyoto, Japan hosted by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan (NICT) and Advanced Telecommunication Research Institute International (ATR). The deadline for submission of one page abstract is Aug. 29th,  2008. (Download call-for-papers)

  • February 19, 2008: Call for Papers: ISCSLP 2008 in Kunming.

    The 6th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processinig (ISCSLP 2008) will be held on December 16-19, 2008 in Kunming, hosted by the University of Science and Technology of China and Yunnan University.

  • December 20, 2007: Call for Papers: ICASSP 2009 in Taipei.
    The 34th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) will be held at the Taipei International Convention Center in Taipei, Taiwan, April 19 - 24, 2009. The ICASSP meeting is the world’s largest and most comprehensive technical conference focused on signal processing and its applications.

  • November 26, 2007: Call for Student Membership in the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA).

Introduction to SIG-CSLP

The main goals of SIG-CSLP (The Special Interest Group on Chinese Spoken Language Processing) are to promote research interests and activities on Chinese Spoken Language Processing among ISCA members; provide a platform to exchange idea exchange, share experiences and facilitate developments to those who are interested in Chinese Spoken Language Processing; sponsor meetings, workshops and other events related to Chinese Spoken Language Processing; and whenever possible make available resources relevant to research in Chinese Spoken Language Processing such as text and speech corpora, analysis tools, research papers and generated data to the community.

SIG-CSLP was established on August 24, 2002 at the third International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 2002) held in Taipei. A total of 141 participants attended the Symposium general assembly and unanimously approved the set up of SIG-CSLP, making the event the first General Assembly of SIG-CSLP as well. The assembly also approved and passed a constitution, which was duly submitted and passed by ISCA later.

Another SIG-CSLP general assembly was held on December 15, 2006 during ISCSLP 2006 held in Singapore. New SIG officers including the Chair, Vice Chair and Secretary were elected. The assembly also agreed to set up four working groups, Corpora, Website and Membership, Community Relations and Events, to involve more colleagues in SIG affairs and aid SIG business in general.

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