Papers by Hannah Craighead
Investigating the effect of auxiliary objectives for the automated grading of learner English speech transcriptions (2020.acl-main)
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| Challenge: | a growing demand for the ability to communicate in English means automated tutoring and assessment systems are becoming more popular. |
| Approach: | They propose to use automatic speech recognition transcripts to grade spontaneous speech based on textual features. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system improves on a transformer encoder with native language identification as an auxiliary task. |