Speech- and Text-driven Features for Automated Scoring of English Speaking Tasks

Anastassia Loukina, Nitin Madnani, Aoife Cahill


Abstract
We consider the automatic scoring of a task for which both the content of the response as well its spoken fluency are important. We combine features from a text-only content scoring system originally designed for written responses with several categories of acoustic features. Although adding any single category of acoustic features to the text-only system on its own does not significantly improve performance, adding all acoustic features together does yield a small but significant improvement. These results are consistent for responses to open-ended questions and to questions focused on some given source material.
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W17-4609
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Proceedings of the Workshop on Speech-Centric Natural Language Processing
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September
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2017
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Copenhagen, Denmark
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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67–77
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https://aclanthology.org/W17-4609
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10.18653/v1/W17-4609
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Anastassia Loukina, Nitin Madnani, and Aoife Cahill. 2017. Speech- and Text-driven Features for Automated Scoring of English Speaking Tasks. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Speech-Centric Natural Language Processing, pages 67–77, Copenhagen, Denmark. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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