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title = "A Shared Task for Spoken {CALL}?",
author = "Baur, Claudia and
Gerlach, Johanna and
Rayner, Manny and
Russell, Martin and
Strik, Helmer",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC}'16)",
month = may,
year = "2016",
address = "Portoro{\v{z}}, Slovenia",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/L16-1036",
pages = "237--244",
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.",
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%T A Shared Task for Spoken CALL?
%A Baur, Claudia
%A Gerlach, Johanna
%A Rayner, Manny
%A Russell, Martin
%A Strik, Helmer
%S Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’16)
%D 2016
%8 may
%I European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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%X 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.
%U https://aclanthology.org/L16-1036
%P 237-244
Markdown (Informal)
[A Shared Task for Spoken CALL?](https://aclanthology.org/L16-1036) (Baur et al., LREC 2016)
ACL
- Claudia Baur, Johanna Gerlach, Manny Rayner, Martin Russell, and Helmer Strik. 2016. A Shared Task for Spoken CALL?. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 237–244, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).