The aim of the workshop is to bring together people working on the development (compilation and processing) of spoken language corpora.* The workshop will provide participants with the opportunity to exchange views and share experiences. Moreover, the workshop is instrumental in taking stock of and evaluating the present state-of-the-art. The workshop thus aims to contribute to the development of a future roadmap that will guide the development of standards, tools, etc. for use with spoken language corpora.

*The term 'spoken language corpora' is used here to distinguish such corpora from speech corpora or speech databases: speech corpora are collections of spoken data that are typically recorded for specific purposes by specific users (speech corpora/databases such as SpeechDat Car that are used for developing consumer applications). Usually such databases lack the richness of linguistic annations that is pursued for spoken language corpora.