Cocosda

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Cocosda

• Coordinating Committee on Speech Databases and
  Speech I/O Systems Assessment

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Cocosda history

• Started 1991 in Chiavari
• Satellite event of Eurospeech91 (Genoa)
• Organisation
• CCC
• 2 representatives per continent
• US, Asia, Oceania, Europe
• Repository centers (LDC, ELRA)
• Topic rapporteurs

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Cocosda history

• General convenors
• J. Mariani (1991), A. Fourcin, M. Liberman, Lin
  Chan Lee, K. Choukri, D. Gibbon (2006)
• Annual meetings (proceedings)
• Eurospeech ICSLP / Interspeech
• Chiavari 1991, Banff 1992, Berlin 1993, Yokohama
  1994, Madrid 1995, Philadelphia 1996, Rhodos
  1997, Sydney 1998, Budapest 1999, Beijing 2000

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Cocosda milestones

• 1992 Banff
• Polyphone, Speechdat
• 1993 Berlin
• TED (Transnational/Terrible English Database)
• Conference presentation translit(t)eration
  contest
• Oriental Cocosda
• 1994
• Eurococosda
• 1995 ( Relator, Speechdat, Eurococosda, Elsnet)
• ELRA

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Cocosda milestones

• 1998 ( ELRA, ELSNET)
• LREC
• 2000
• Cocosda Best Student Paper price
• 2002 ( ELRA)
• WRITE
• WRITE Cocosda joint workshop at LREC