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For A Fistful Of Dollars: Using Crowd-Sourcing To Evaluate A Spoken Language CALL Application

Presented at Venice (Italy), 24-26 August 2011
Publication date2011
Abstract

We present an evaluation of a Web-deployed spoken language CALL system, carried out using crowd-sourcing methods. The system, “Survival Japanese”, is a crash course in tourist Japanese implemented within the platform CALL-SLT. The evaluation was carried out over one week using the Amazon Mechanical Turk. Although we found a high proportion of attempted scammers, there was a core of 23 subjects who used the system in a responsible manner. The evidence that these subjects learned from their 111 sessions and 9092 spoken interactions was significant at P=0.001. Our conclusion is that crowd-sourcing is a potentially valid method for evaluating spoken CALL systems.

Keywords
  • CALL
  • Crowd-sourcing
  • Speech recognition
  • Evaluation
  • Japanese
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RAYNER, Emmanuel et al. For A Fistful Of Dollars: Using Crowd-Sourcing To Evaluate A Spoken Language CALL Application. In: Proceedings of the SLaTE Workshop. Venice (Italy). [s.l.] : [s.n.], 2011.
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