Applying Unsupervised Learning to Support Vector Space Model Based Speaking Assessment

Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, BEA 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 58-62

  Chen, Lei ^a  

^a EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Document clustering; Speech assessment; Unsupervised learning; Vector Space Model (VSM)

Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; VECTOR SPACES; VECTORS;

LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT; MEASUREMENTS OF; MODEL-BASED OPC; NON-NATIVE; REFERENCE VECTORS; SPEECH ASSESSMENT; SUPPORT VECTOR; UNSUPERVISED LEARNING METHOD; VECTOR SPACE MODEL; VECTOR SPACE MODELS;

UNSUPERVISED LEARNING;

EID: 85121756293     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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