Search Results for author: James Bruno

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Using exemplar responses for training and evaluating automated speech scoring systems

no code implementations WS 2018 Anastassia Loukina, Klaus Zechner, James Bruno, Beata Beigman Klebanov

In this paper we compare the performance of an automated speech scoring engine using two corpora: a corpus of almost 700, 000 randomly sampled spoken responses with scores assigned by one or two raters during operational scoring, and a corpus of 16, 500 exemplar responses with scores reviewed by multiple expert raters.

Discourse Annotation of Non-native Spontaneous Spoken Responses Using the Rhetorical Structure Theory Framework

no code implementations ACL 2017 Xinhao Wang, James Bruno, Hillary Molloy, Keelan Evanini, Klaus Zechner

Considering that the measurement of discourse coherence is typically a key metric in human scoring rubrics for assessments of spoken language, we initiated a research effort to obtain RST annotations of a large number of non-native spoken responses from a standardized assessment of academic English proficiency.

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