Title
Recognizing Young Readers' Spoken Questions
Abstract
Free-form spoken input would be the easiest and most natural way for young children to communicate to an intelligent tutoring system. However, achieving such a capability poses a challenge both to instruction design and to automatic speech recognition. To address the difficulties of accepting such input, we adopt the framework of predictable response training, which aims at simultaneously achieving linguistic predictability and educational utility. We design instruction in this framework to teach children the reading comprehension strategy of self-questioning. To filter out some misrecognized speech, we combine acoustic confidence with language modeling techniques that exploit the predictability of the elicited responses. Compared to a baseline that does neither, this approach performs significantly better in concept recall 47% vs. 28% and precision 61% vs. 39% on 250 unseen utterances from 34 previously unseen speakers. We conclude with some design implications for future speech enabled tutoring systems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.3233/JAI-130031
I. J. Artificial Intelligence in Education
Keywords
Field
DocType
misrecognized speech,automatic speech recognition,instruction design,unseen speaker,design implication,intelligent tutoring system,recognizing young readers,acoustic confidence,future speech,spoken questions,unseen utterance,linguistic predictability,computational linguistics,artificial intelligence,automation,speech
Predictability,Intelligent tutoring system,Computer science,Reading comprehension,Computational linguistics,Automation,Speech recognition,Exploit,Artificial intelligence,Natural language processing,Recall,Language model
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
21
4
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.48
14
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wei Chen1323.49
Jack Mostow21133263.51
Gregory Aist312529.06