Automatic assessment of student translations for foreign language tutoring

NAACL HLT 2007 - Human Language Technologies 2007: The Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Main Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 468-475

  Wang, Chao ^a   Seneff, Stephanie ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE LEARNING; COMPUTER GAME; CONTEXT INFORMATION; CRITICAL TECHNOLOGIES; EVALUATION RESULTS; FOREIGN LANGUAGE; HUMAN JUDGMENTS; LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS; MANDARIN CHINESE; NATIVE LANGUAGE; NON-NATIVE; RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE; SPEECH TRANSLATION; TRANSLATION QUALITY;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; STUDENTS; TECHNOLOGY;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 84863337546     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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