Technical Program
Oriental COCOSDA 2011 program
Day 1: Wed. 26, Oct.
09:30 Opening
10:00 Keynote 1:
“Linguistics-Oriented Language Resource Development at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics”
Kikuo Maekawa, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL), Japan
Chair: Hiroya Fujisaki, Professor Emeritus, the University of Tokyo, Japan
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)
Chiu-yu Tseng
2. Development of Hindi Mobile Communication Text and Speech Corpus
Shweta Sinha, Shyam Agrawal and Jesper Olsen
3. The Design and Development of PELECAN (Pronunciation Errors from Learners of English Corpus and Annotation)
Ananlada Chotimongkol, Sumonmas Thatphithakkul, Patcharika Chootrakool, Chatchawarn Hansakunbuntheung and Chai Wutiwiwatchai
4. Construction of Speech Corpus of AESOP-SD
Yuan Jia, Meng Wang, Honghua Zhai and Aijun Li
5. Design and Creation of Dysarthric Speech Database for Development of QoLT Software Technology
Dae-Lim Choi, Bong-Wan Kim, Yong-Ju Lee, Yongnam Um and Minhwa Chung
6. Bengali Speech Corpus for Continuous Automatic Speech Recognition System
Biswajit Das, Sandipan Mandal and Pabitra Mitra
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Keynote 2:
“Emotions in Hindi Speech- Analysis, Perception and Recognition”
Shyam S. Agrawal, CDAC, Noida & KIIT, Gurgaon, India
Chair: Shuichi Itahashi, NII/AIST, Japan
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
Anal Warsi, Tulika Basu, Keikichi Hirose and Hiroya Fujisaki
2. A Comparative Study on Accentuation Implementation of Chinese EFL Learners vs. American Native Speakers
Xia Wang, Yuan Jia and Aijun Li
3. A Preliminary Study on the Transcription of Chinese Intonation
Maolin Wang, Wei Shi, Maocan Lin, Aijun Li and Ziyu Xiong
4. Intonation Patterns of Exclamations for Chinese EFL Learners from Zhenjiang
Pengfei Shao, Yuan Jia and Aijun Li
5. The Influence of Shandong Dialects on the Acquisition of English Plosives
Yuan Jia, Xia Wang and Aijun Li
6. Enunciate: An Internet-Accessible Computer-Aided Pronunciation Training System and Related User Evaluations
Ka-Wa Yuen, Wai-Kim Leung, Peng-Fei Liu, Ka-Ho Wong, Xiao-Jun Qian, Wai-Kit Lo and Helen Meng
16:30 Coffee Break
17:00 Session 3: Speech Processing
Chair: Thomas Fang Zheng, Tsinghua University, China
Yong Ju Lee, Wonkwang University, Korea
1. Adaptive Noise Estimation and Reduction based on Two-Stage Wiener Filtering in MCLT Domain
Mahwash Ahmed and Zahid Hasan Bawar
2. A Question-and-Answer Classification Technique for Constructing and Managing Spoken Dialog System
Ryosuke Inoue, Yoshiaki Kurosawa, Kazuya Mera and Toshiyuki Takezawa
3. Feature Normalization and Selection for Robust Speaker State Recognition
Chien-Lin Huang, Yu Tsao, Chiori Hori and Hideki Kashioka
4. Unsupervised Spoken Term Detection with Acoustic Segment Model
Haipeng Wang, Tan Lee and Cheung-Chi Leung
5. Morpheme Concatenation Approach in Language Modeling for Large-Vocabulary Uyghur Speech Recognition
Mijit Ablimit, Askar Hamdulla and Tatsuya Kawahara
6. The Role of Speech Technology in Service-Operation Estimation
Masanori Takehara, Satoshi Tamura, Ryuhei Tenmoku, Takeshi Kurata and Satoru Hayamizu
18:30 End of Session 3
19:00 Welcome Reception
Day 2: Thu. 27, Oct.
09:00 Keynote 3:
“Voice-Driven Multimedia Systems in the Network Era”
Lin-shan Lee, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Chair: Sin-Horng Chen, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
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
Han-Ping Shen, Chung-Hsien Wu, Yan-Ting Yang and Chun-Shan Hsu
2. Acoustic Parameter Databases of Daur, Evenki, Oroqen Nationalities
Zhou Xuewen, Hu He, Wu Ri Ge Xi Le Tu, Ha Si Qi Mu Ge and Zheng Yuling
3. Mongolian Speech Corpus for Text-To-Speech Development
Chatchawarn Hansakunbuntheung, Ausdang Thangthai, Nattanun Thatphithakkul and Altangerel Chagnaa
4. The Development of a Database of Functional and Emotional Intonation in Chinese
Maolin Wang, Yingju Li, Maocan Lin, Aijun Li and Ziyu Xiong
5. A Multimodal Corpus for Modeling Turn Management in Multi-Party Conversations
Hironaga Furukawa, Masafumi Nishida, Kristiina Jokinen and Seiichi Yamamoto
6. MAM: A Multi-Accent Mandarin Corpus
Chung Hsiang Huang and Chia-Ping Chen
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Excursion & Banquet
Day 3: Fri. 28, Oct.
09:00 Keynote 4:
“A Simple Architecture for the Fine-grained Documentation of Endangered Languages: The LACITO Multimedia Archive”
Boyd Michailovsky, Alexis Michaud and Severine Guillaume, CNRS, France,
Chair: Hsin-Min Wang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
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
Dac-Thang Hoang and Hsiao-Chuan Wang
2. Interactive Visualization and Search System for Speech Corpora
Shuichi Itahashi, Tomoko Kajiyama, Kimiko Yamakawa, Yuichi Ishimoto and Tomoko Matsui
3. Creation of Acoustic Signal Dictionary for ESNOLA based Concatenated Bangla and Nepali TTS System
Soma Khan and Rajib Roy
4. Annotation of Japanese Response Tokens and Preliminary Analysis on their Distribution in Three-Party Conversations
Yasuharu Den, Nao Yoshida, Katsuya Takanashi and Hanae Koiso
5. Assessing the Naturalness of Malay Emotional Voice Corpora
Mumtaz B. Mustafa, Raja Noor Ainon Zabariah, Roziati Zainuddin, Zuraidah M. Don and Gerry Knowles
6. Acoustic Feature and Variance of Uigur Vowels
Zhou Xuewen, Hu He, Wu Ri Ge Xi Le Tu, Ha Si Qi Mu Ge and Zheng Yuling
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
Sanghamitra Mohanty and Basanta Kumar Swain
2. Subjective Evaluation of Joint Modeling of Pause Insertion and F0 Contour Generation in Text-to-Speech Synthesis of Bangla
Arup Saha, Tulika Basu, Anal Warsi, Keikichi Hirose and Hiroya Fujisaki
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
Imran Ahmed and Sunil Kumar Kopparapu
5. Ontological Knowledge Database for Bangla Verb Arguments
Subhash Chandra and Pampa Bhattacharyya
6. Enabling Rapid Prototyping of an Existing Speech Solution into Another Language
Sunil Kumar Kopparapu and Imran Ahmed
7. Development of Female Voice Speech Synthesiser for Hindi Language
Archana Balyan, S.S. Agrawal and Amita Dev
8. Developing a Kashmiri Morphological Analyzer/Generator
Aadil Amin Kak, Nazima Mehdi and Aadil Ahmad Lawaye
9. Influence of Verb PoS on the Accuracy Translation from Indonesian to Interlingua
Herry Sujaini, Kuspriyanto Kuspriyanto and Arry Akhmad Arman
10. Typology of Verb Agreement in the Languages of Nepal
Madhav Pokharel
11. Qualitative and Quantitative Classification of Bangla Vowel
Tulika Basu and Arup Saha
12. Tonal Patterns of Shandong Dialects - a case study of Liaocheng and Tai’an
Yuan Jia
13. Interaction of CR and CC in Tone Sandhi Patterning of Shandong Three-Toned Dialects
Honghua Zhai
14. Modeling Spectral Dynamics for Classification of Vowels in Mandarin Chinese
Jiahong Yuan
15. Construction of the Speech Corpus Retrieval System: Corpus Search & Catalog-Search
Raymond Shen and Hideaki Kikuchi
16. Prosodic Word Boundary Detection for Bangla based on Empirical Mode Decomposition of F0 Contour
Sudipta Acharya and Shyamal Kumar Das Mandal
17. Study on the Corpus-based Mongolian Words
Aomin, Xiong Ziyu and Huhe
18. Putonghua Shuiping Ceshi (PSC) Speech Corpus for Mandarin Pronunciation Test in Xiang Dialect Area
Xu Yanhan, Xie Xiang, Fang Huilin and Jiang Bo
19. Developing a Digitized Phoneme Database for Sinhala Language
Viraj Karunananda
20. Verification of a Rich Arabic Speech Database
Awais Mahmood, Mohamed Abdelkader Bencherif, Mansour Alsulaiman and Ghulam Muhammad
21. Study on Mandarin Chinese Short Message Database
Zhen Wei, Yufeng Hao and Xianfeng Cheng
22. Multimodal Corpus Using Multimodal Dictionary in Lohorung
Jens Allwood, Sagun Dhakhwa, Bhim N. Regmi and Prasanna Shrestha
23. PBDP based Real-Time Speaker Identification System Using Excitation Source Modeling Features
Soma Khan, Joyanta Basu and Milton Samirakshma Bepari
24. Voice Enabled Railway Travel Enquiry System: An IVR Application on Bangla Automatic Speech Recognition
Joyanta Basu, Soma Khan, Rajib Roy and Milton Samirakshma Bepari
25. Performance of Hmm based Hindi Speech Recognizer Using a Combination of Phoneme and Pause Model
Sunita Arora, Karunesh Arora and Shyam Sunder Agrawal
14:00 Coffee Break
14:30 Country Reports
17:30 Closing
18:00 End of Conference