Detecting structural events for assessing non-native speech

Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, BEA 2011 at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, ACL-HLT 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 38-45

  Chen, Lei ^a   Yoon, Su Youn ^a  

^a EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

DISFLUENCIES; EVENTS DETECTION; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; NON-NATIVE SPEECH; ON-MACHINES; PROFICIENCY LEVEL; SPEECH DATA; SPONTANEOUS SPEECH; STRUCTURAL EVENTS;

SPEECH;

EID: 84883315838     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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