Collecting Linguistic Resources for Assessing Children’s Pronunciation of Nordic Languages
Anne Marte Haug Olstad, Anna Smolander, Sofia Strömbergsson, Sari Ylinen, Minna Lehtonen, Mikko Kurimo, Yaroslav Getman, Tamás Grósz, Xinwei Cao, Torbjørn Svendsen, Giampiero Salvi
Abstract
This paper reports on the experience collecting a number of corpora of Nordic languages spoken by children. The aim of the data collection is providing annotated data to develop and evaluate computer assisted pronunciation assessment systems both for non-native children learning a Nordic language (L2) and for L1 children with speech sound disorder (SSD). The paper presents the challenges encountered recording and annotating data for Finnish, Swedish and Norwegian, as well as the ethical considerations related with making this data publicly available. We hope that sharing this experience will encourage others to collect similar data for other languages. Of the different data collections, we were able to make the Norwegian corpus publicly available in the hope that it will serve as a reference in pronunciation assessment research.- Anthology ID:
- 2024.lrec-main.313
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2024
- Address:
- Torino, Italia
- Editors:
- Nicoletta Calzolari, Min-Yen Kan, Veronique Hoste, Alessandro Lenci, Sakriani Sakti, Nianwen Xue
- Venues:
- LREC | COLING
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- ELRA and ICCL
- Note:
- Pages:
- 3529–3537
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.313
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Anne Marte Haug Olstad, Anna Smolander, Sofia Strömbergsson, Sari Ylinen, Minna Lehtonen, Mikko Kurimo, Yaroslav Getman, Tamás Grósz, Xinwei Cao, Torbjørn Svendsen, and Giampiero Salvi. 2024. Collecting Linguistic Resources for Assessing Children’s Pronunciation of Nordic Languages. In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), pages 3529–3537, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
- Cite (Informal):
- Collecting Linguistic Resources for Assessing Children’s Pronunciation of Nordic Languages (Olstad et al., LREC-COLING 2024)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-4/2024.lrec-main.313.pdf