Hosted Conferences

COLIPS runs a flagship conference International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP) annually. For details, please refer to the IALP page.

In addition, COLIPS also works with other organizations to host international conferences and workshops in Singapore frequently. The following are some of the events that COLIPS organized in the past years.

2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2022)

The International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP), is the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s flagship conference on signal processing and its applications. The physical event of the 47th edition of ICASSP was held in Singapore Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Center, Singapore on 22-27 May 2022.  The virtual conference of ICASSP was held online on 7-13 May 2022.

The 22nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2021) 

The 22nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2021) was held on 29-31 July 2021 in Singapore.

The 12th International Workshop on Spoken Dialog System Technology (IWSDS 2021)

The 12th International Workshop on Spoken Dialog System Technology (IWSDS 2021) was held on15-17 November 2021. It was co-organized by COLIPS, IEEE Singapore SMC Chapter, and the National University of Singapore.

The 24th Conference of the Oriental COCOSDA (O-COCOSDA 2021)

The 24th Conference of the Oriental COCOSDA(O-COCOSDA) was held in Singapore on 18-20 November 2021.

IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU 2019)

IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU 2019) was held in Sentosa on 14-18 December 2019.

2017 International Conference on Orange Technologies (ICOT 2017)

ICOT 2017 was held at the National University of Singapore on 8-10 Dec 2017, Singapore, organized by COLIPS.

The 17th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop(CLSW 2016)

The 17th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop (CLSW2016) was held in Singapore on 20-22 May 2016. CLSW2016 was organized by the Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing Society (COLIPS). Accepted papers were included in the conference proceedings. Selected English papers were published in Springer’s LNAI series and indexed by both SCOPUS and EI. In addition, excellent papers were also recommended for publication in The International Journal of Knowledge and Language Processing (KLP), and the International Journal on Asian Language Processing (IJALP).

15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2014)

INTERSPEECH is the world’s largest and most comprehensive conference on issues surrounding the science and technology of spoken language processing, both in humans and in machines. Interspeech 2014 was held in Singapore EXPO on 14-18 Sep 2014.

International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 2014)

The 9th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 2014) was held in Singapore on 12-14 Sep 2014, collocated with Interspeech 2014. ISCSLP 2014 was organized by the Oriental Languages Information Processing Society (COLIPS), Special Interest Group on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (SIG-CSLP) of the International Speech and Communication Association (ISCA), and IEEE Singapore SMC Chapter. The Symposium was attended by over 200 participants from over the world.

Blizzard Challenge 2014 Workshop

Blizzard Challenge Workshop 2014 was held on 19 September 2014 in Singapore, hosted by Institute for Infocomm Research and COLIPS. The workshop was held to report the results of the annual international speech synthesis benchmark.

The Ninth Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS 2013)

The Ninth Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference was held in Singapore on 09-11 December 2013, organized by the Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing Society (COLIPS).

The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop (Odyssey 2012)

The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop was hosted by COLIPS in Singapore on 25-28 June 2012. Odyssey’12 was an ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop held in cooperation with the ISCA Speaker and Language Characterization SIG.

25th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 25)

The 25th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 25) was held in Singapore on December 16-18, 2011, hosted by Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and the Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing Society (COLIPS). The PACLIC series of conferences emphasize the synergy of theoretical analysis and processing of language and provides a forum for researchers in different fields of language study in the Pacific-Asia region to share their findings and interests in the formal and empirical study of languages.

ACL-IJCNLP-2009

A Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP) was held in Singapore on August 2-7, 2009. The conference was organized by ACL, AFNLP, and COLIPS.

Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop (CLSW 2008)

Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop was held on 14-17 July 2008 in National University of Singapore, organized by the Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing Society of Singapore (COLIPS)

The 21st International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (ICCPOL 2006)

The 21st International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages was held in Sijori Resort Sentosa on 17-19 Dec 2006, organized by the Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing Society (COLIPS).

The 5th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 2006)

The 5th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing was held on 13-16 December 2006 in Singapore, jointly organized by Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) and the Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing Society (COLIPS).

5th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop (CLSW 2004)

The 5th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop was held at the National University of Singapore on 14-19 June 2004.

The International Committee for the Co-ordination and Standardization of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques (O-COCOSDA 2003)

The International Committee for the Co-ordination and Standardization of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques was held on 1 – 3 October 2003 in Singapore, organized by the Chinese and Oriental Language Information Processing Society.

The 17th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 2003)

The 17th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation was held on 1 – 3 October 2003 in Singapore. The event was co-located with O-COCOSDA 2003.

4th Global Chinese Conference on Computers in Education (GCCCE 2000)

The 4th Global Chinese Conference on Computers in Education was in Orchard Hotel on 29 – 31 May 2000, Singapore.

International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 1998)

ISCSLP 1998 was held at the National University of Singapore on 7-9 December 1998.

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