Principled construction of elicited imitation tests

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 233-238

  Christensen, Carl ^a   Hendrickson, Ross ^a   Lonsdale, Deryle ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE TESTS; ITEM GENERATION; LANGUAGE RESOURCES; RELEVANT FEATURES;

TESTING;

EID: 84984642149     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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