Exploring content features for automated speech scoring

NAACL HLT 2012 - 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 103-111

  Xie, Shasha ^a   Evanini, Keelan ^a   Zechner, Klaus ^a  

^a EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

HUMAN SPEECH; LATENT SEMANTIC ANALYSIS; LEXICAL MATCHING; MATCHING METHODS; POINTWISE MUTUAL INFORMATION; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY MEASURES; SIMILARITY MEASURE; SPEECH TRANSCRIPTIONS; SPONTANEOUS SPEECH; VECTOR SPACE MODELS;

VECTOR SPACES;

EID: 84926181768     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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