本所鄭秋豫特聘研究員研究團隊於第21屆Oriental COCOSDA國際會議(The Oriental Chapter of the International Committee for the Co-ordination and Standardisation of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques, 2018年5月8日至9日,日本宮崎) 發表論文“Parenthetical-A Special Type of Prosodic Reduction in Continuous Speech” Chiu-yu Tseng, Helen Kai-yun Chen and Yen-Hsing Chen)一文,經大會評審獲頒大會最佳論文獎 (The Oriental COCOSDA ITN Best Paper Award),並於大會閉幕式中由OC-2018大會主席中村哲(Satoshi Nakamura)教授公開頒獎。