Purpose

The purpose of the CCC, as laid out in the CCC Constitution, includes:

• Collecting and integrating existing Chinese speech and linguistic corpus resources, and continuing creation of new such resources.
• Integrating existing tools for the creation, transcription, and analysis of Chinese speech and linguistic corpus resources, improving their usability, and creating new tools.
• Collecting, organizing and introducing the specifications and standards for Chinese speech and language research and development.
• Promoting the exchange of Chinese speech and linguistic corpus resources.

Organization

Sponsored by Dr. Thomas Fang Zheng and Co-Founded by the following 8 universities, institutes and companies, the Chinese Corpus Consortium was founded in March 2004:

1. d-Ear [*]: Beijing d-Ear Technologies Co., Ltd., China.
   Representative: Dr. Zhanjiang Song. [Personal Homepage]
2. CST [*]: Center for Speech Technology, Tsinghua University, China.
   Representative:Dr. Thomas Fang Zheng. [Personal Homepage]
3. CASS [*]: Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China.
   Representative:Prof. Aijun Li. [Personal Homepage]
4. HCI&MM [*]: Human Computer Interaction and Multimedia Lab, Tsinghua University, China.
   Representative:Prof. Lianhong Cai. [Personal Homepage]
5. COLIPS: Chinese & Oriental Language Information Processing Society, Singapore.
   Representative:Prof. Lua Kim Teng. [Personal Homepage]
6. ATR: Dept. 1, ATR Spoken Language Translation Research Labs, Japan.
   Representative: Dr. Satoshi Nakamura. [Personal Homepage]
7. JHU: Center for Language & Speech Processing, The Johns Hopkins University, USA.
   Representative:Dr. William Byrne. [Personal Homepage]
8. CUHK: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
   Representative: Prof. Pak-Chung Ching. [Personal Homepage]

   * These four co-founders are also co-founders and first member units of the Chinese Speech Interactive Technology Group (in Chinese) approved by the Science and Technology Department of the Ministry of Information Industry of China.

Headquartered in Beijing, China, the CCC is supported by the Chinese Language Resources branch of the High-tech Enterprises Association of the Beijing Experimental Zone for the Development of New Technology Industries (HTEA), and accepts the supervision, inspection and management of the Beijing Municipal Commission of Science and Technology and Beijing Social Organization Managing Office. Under the guidance of the HTEA, the CCC works for the mutual promotion of the standardization and industrialization of Chinese language resources. The CCC is administered by Beijing d-Ear Technologies Co., Ltd., which covered daily expenses during the creation period of the CCC.

The management team for the years 2004-2006 is comprised of the following people:

Council Chair: Dr. Thomas Fang Zheng
Vice Chair: Dr. Satoshi Nakamura
Council: (representatives listed above)
Standing Secretary: Dr Yi LIU
Treasurer: Yan JIANG

Contact Details

Chinese Corpus Consortium
c/o Beijing d-Ear Technologies Co., Ltd.
Room 505, Building D, Pioneer Park
Shangdi Xinxilu No. 2, Haidian District
Beijing, 100085, China

Phone: +86-10-8289-3531/2
Email: Standing Secretary (Dr Yi LIU) or any of the representatives listed above.