A system for technology based assessment of language and literacy in young children: The role of multiple information sources

2007 IEEE 9Th International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, MMSP 2007 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 26-30

  Alwan, Abeer ^b   Bai, Yijian ^b   Black, Matt ^a   Casey, Larry ^b   Gerosa, Matteo ^a   Heritage, Margaret ^b   Iseli, Markus ^b   Jones, Barbara ^b   Kazemzadeh, Abe ^a   Lee, Sungbok ^a   Narayanan, Shrikanth ^a   Price, Patti ^c   Tepperman, Joseph ^a   Wang, Shizhen ^b  

^a University of Southern California ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PPRICE Speech and Language Technology

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN ENGLISH; ASSESSMENT SYSTEMS; AUTOMATIC ASSESSMENTS; AUTOMATIC SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SOURCES; LITERACY SKILLS; MULTIPLE SOURCES; TECHNOLOGY BASED; YOUNG CHILDREN;

LINGUISTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 48149114655     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MMSP.2007.4412810     Document Type: Conference Paper

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