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A Shared Task for Spoken CALL?

Presented atPortorož, Slovenia, May 2016
Published inNicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Marko Grobelnik, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Helene Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis (Ed.), Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), p. 237-244
PublisherEuropean Language Resources Association (ELRA)
Publication date2016
Abstract

We argue that the field of spoken CALL needs a shared task in order to facilitate comparisons between different groups and methodologies, and describe a concrete example of such a task, based on data collected from a speech-enabled online tool which has been used to help young Swiss German teens practise skills in English conversation. Items are prompt-response pairs, where the prompt is a piece of German text and the response is a recorded English audio file. The task is to label pairs as “accept” or “reject”, accepting responses which are grammatically and linguistically correct to match a set of hidden gold standard answers as closely as possible. Initial resources are provided so that a scratch system can be constructed with a minimal investment of effort, and in particular without necessarily using a speech recogniser. Training data for the task will be released in June 2016, and test data in January 2017.

Keywords
  • CALL
  • Shared tasks
  • Speech recognition
  • Metrics
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BAUR, Claudia et al. A Shared Task for Spoken CALL? In: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC′16). Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Marko Grobelnik, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Helene Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis (Ed.). Portorož, Slovenia. [s.l.] : European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2016. p. 237–244.
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