Assessing Reading Literacy of Bulgarian Pupils with Finger–tracking

Alessandro Lento, Andrea Nadalini, Marcello Ferro, Claudia Marzi, Vito Pirrelli, Tsvetana Dimitrova, Hristina Kukova, Valentina Stefanova, Maria Todorova, Svetla Koeva


Abstract
The paper reports on the first steps in developing a time-stamped multimodal dataset of reading data by Bulgarian children. Data are being collected, structured and analysed by means of ReadLet, an innovative infrastructure for multimodal language data collection that uses a tablet as a reader’s front-end. The overall goal of the project is to quantitatively analyse the reading skills of a sample of early Bulgarian readers collected over a two-year period, and compare them with the reading data of early readers of Italian, collected using the same protocol. We illustrate design issues of the experimental protocol, as well as the data acquisition process and the post-processing phase of data annotation/augmentation. To evaluate the potential and usefulness of the Bulgarian dataset for reading research, we present some preliminary statistical analyses of our recently collected data. They show robust convergence trends between Bulgarian and Italian early reading development stages.
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2024.clib-1.14
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Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2024)
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September
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2024
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Sofia, Bulgaria
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Department of Computational Linguistics, Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
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Alessandro Lento, Andrea Nadalini, Marcello Ferro, Claudia Marzi, Vito Pirrelli, Tsvetana Dimitrova, Hristina Kukova, Valentina Stefanova, Maria Todorova, and Svetla Koeva. 2024. Assessing Reading Literacy of Bulgarian Pupils with Finger–tracking. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2024), pages 140–149, Sofia, Bulgaria. Department of Computational Linguistics, Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
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Assessing Reading Literacy of Bulgarian Pupils with Finger–tracking (Lento et al., CLIB 2024)
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