Applications of Natural Language Processing in Bilingual Language Teaching: An Indonesian-English Case Study

Zara Maxwell-Smith, Simón González Ochoa, Ben Foley, Hanna Suominen

Abstract
Multilingual corpora are difficult to compile and a classroom setting adds pedagogy to the mix of factors which make this data so rich and problematic to classify. In this paper, we set out methodological considerations of using automated speech recognition to build a corpus of teacher speech in an Indonesian language classroom. Our preliminary results (64% word error rate) suggest these tools have the potential to speed data collection in this context. We provide practical examples of our data structure, details of our piloted computer-assisted processes, and fine-grained error analysis. Our study is informed and directed by genuine research questions and discussion in both the education and computational linguistics fields. We highlight some of the benefits and risks of using these emerging technologies to analyze the complex work of language teachers and in education more generally.
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2020.bea-1.12
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Proceedings of the Fifteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
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July
Year:
2020
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Seattle, WA, USA → Online
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Jill Burstein, Ekaterina Kochmar, Claudia Leacock, Nitin Madnani, Ildikó Pilán, Helen Yannakoudakis, Torsten Zesch
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BEA
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SIGEDU
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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124–134
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10.18653/v1/2020.bea-1.12
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Zara Maxwell-Smith, Simón González Ochoa, Ben Foley, and Hanna Suominen. 2020. Applications of Natural Language Processing in Bilingual Language Teaching: An Indonesian-English Case Study. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, pages 124–134, Seattle, WA, USA → Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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