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A Web-Deployed Swedish Spoken CALL System Based on a Large Shared English/Swedish Feature Grammar

Published inProceedings of the SLTC Workshop on NLP for CALL, Editors Lars Borin & Elena Volodina, p. 37-46
Presented at Lund (Sweden), 25th October, 2012
Publication date2012
Abstract

We describe a Swedish version of CALL-SLT, a web-deployed CALL system that allows beginner/intermediate students to practise generative spoken language skills. Speech recog- nition is grammar-based, with language models derived, using the Regulus platform, from substantial domain-independent feature grammars. The paper focusses on the Swedish grammar resources, which were developed by generalising the existing English feature grammar into a shared grammar for English and Swedish. It turns out that this can be done very economically: all but a handful of rules and features are shared, and English grammar essentially ends up being treated as a reduced form of Swedish. We conclude by present- ing a simple evaluation which compares the Swedish and French versions of CALL-SLT.

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  • CALL
  • Swedish
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RAYNER, Emmanuel et al. A Web-Deployed Swedish Spoken CALL System Based on a Large Shared English/Swedish Feature Grammar. In: Proceedings of the SLTC Workshop on NLP for CALL. Lund (Sweden). [s.l.] : [s.n.], 2012. p. 37–46.
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