Ronald Cole

Also published as: R. Cole, Ron Cole, Ronald A. Cole


2024

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My Science Tutor (MyST)–a Large Corpus of Children’s Conversational Speech
Sameer Pradhan | Ronald A. Cole | Wayne H. Ward
Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)

This article describes the [corpus-name] corpus developed as part of the [project-name] project. To the best of our knowledge, this is one of the largest collections of children’s conversational speech that is freely available for non-commercial use under the creative commons license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). It comprises approximately 400 hours of speech, spanning some 230K utterances spread across about 10,500 virtual tutor sessions. Roughly 1,300 third, fourth and fifth grade students contributed to this corpus. The current release contains roughly 100K transcribed utterances. It is our hope that the corpus can be used to improve automatic speech recognition models and algorithms. We report the word error rate achieved on the test set using a model trained on the training and development portion of the corpus. The git repository of the corpus contains the complete training and evaluation setup in order to facilitate a fair and consistent evaluation. It is our hope that this corpus will contribute to the creation and evaluation of conversational AI agents having a better understanding of children’s speech, potentially opening doors to novel, effective, learning and therapeutic interventions.

2016

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My Science Tutor—Learning Science with a Conversational Virtual Tutor
Sameer Pradhan | Ron Cole | Wayne Ward
Proceedings of ACL-2016 System Demonstrations

2004

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Advances in Children’s Speech Recognition within an Interactive Literacy Tutor
Andreas Hagen | Bryan Pellom | Sarel van Vuuren | Ronald Cole
Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2004: Short Papers

2001

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University of Colorado Dialogue Systems for Travel and Navigation
B. Pellom | W. Ward | J. Hansen | R. Cole | K. Hacioglu | J. Zhang | X. Yu | S. Pradhan
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Human Language Technology Research

1999

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Letter to the Editor: Language Technology for Beginners
Ronald A. Cole
Computational Linguistics, Volume 25, Number 4, December 1999

1994

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Corpus Development Activities at the Center for Spoken Language Understanding
Ron Cole | Mike Noel | Daniel C. Burnett | Mark Fanty | Terri Lander | Beatrice Oshika | Stephen Sutton
Human Language Technology: Proceedings of a Workshop held at Plainsboro, New Jersey, March 8-11, 1994

1990

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Spoken Letter Recognition
Ronald Cole | Mark Fanty
Speech and Natural Language: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Hidden Valley, Pennsylvania, June 24-27,1990