Title
Automatic assessment of oral reading fluency for Spanish speaking ELs.
Abstract
This article presents an approach to the automatic assessment of the oral reading fluency (ORF) of children in Spain who are learning to read English. We compared different acoustic modeling configurations and adaptation methods to determine the most accurate means of estimating reliable children’s oral reading fluency scores using the standard metric of words correct per minute (WCPM). We addressed the problem of identifying word errors by extracting a series of features in order to learn how the human experts are actually annotating individual words. Experimental results show that the difference between WCPM scores produced by the proposed system and two human judges on the same text is smaller than the average difference between the scores produced by the two judges. In addition, the system scored individual words in texts as correctly or incorrectly read with an accuracy similar to that of human annotators.
Year
Venue
Field
2012
WOCCI
Fluency,Psychology,Speech recognition,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,Learning to read
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
5
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Daniel Bolaños1204.16
Patricia Elhazaz Walsh200.34
Wayne H. Ward316433.92
Ronald A. Cole4686187.46