@inproceedings{ai-charfuelan-2014-mat,
title = "{MAT}: a tool for {L}2 pronunciation errors annotation",
author = "Ai, Renlong and
Charfuelan, Marcela",
editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta and
Choukri, Khalid and
Declerck, Thierry and
Loftsson, Hrafn and
Maegaard, Bente and
Mariani, Joseph and
Moreno, Asuncion and
Odijk, Jan and
Piperidis, Stelios",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC}'14)",
month = may,
year = "2014",
address = "Reykjavik, Iceland",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
url = "http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/971_Paper.pdf",
abstract = "In the area of Computer Assisted Language Learning(CALL), second language (L2) learners spoken data is an important resource for analysing and annotating typical L2 pronunciation errors. The annotation of L2 pronunciation errors in spoken data is not an easy task though, normally it requires manual annotation from trained linguists or phoneticians. In order to facilitate this task, in this paper, we present the MAT tool, a web-based tool intended to facilitate the annotation of L2 learners{'} pronunciation errors at various levels. The tool has been designed taking into account recent studies on error detection in pronunciation training. It also aims at providing an easy and fast annotation process via a comprehensive and friendly user interface. The tool is based on the MARY TTS open source platform, from which it uses the components: text analyser (tokeniser, syllabifier, phonemiser), phonetic aligner and speech signal processor. Annotation results at sentence, word, syllable and phoneme levels are stored in XML format. The tool is currently under evaluation with a L2 learners spoken corpus recorded in the SPRINTER (Language Technology for Interactive, Multi-Media Online Language Learning) project.",
}
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<modsCollection xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3">
<mods ID="ai-charfuelan-2014-mat">
<titleInfo>
<title>MAT: a tool for L2 pronunciation errors annotation</title>
</titleInfo>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Renlong</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Ai</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">author</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Marcela</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Charfuelan</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">author</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<originInfo>
<dateIssued>2014-05</dateIssued>
</originInfo>
<typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource>
<relatedItem type="host">
<titleInfo>
<title>Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’14)</title>
</titleInfo>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Nicoletta</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Calzolari</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Khalid</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Choukri</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Thierry</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Declerck</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Hrafn</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Loftsson</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Bente</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Maegaard</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Joseph</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Mariani</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Asuncion</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Moreno</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Jan</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Odijk</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Stelios</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Piperidis</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<originInfo>
<publisher>European Language Resources Association (ELRA)</publisher>
<place>
<placeTerm type="text">Reykjavik, Iceland</placeTerm>
</place>
</originInfo>
<genre authority="marcgt">conference publication</genre>
</relatedItem>
<abstract>In the area of Computer Assisted Language Learning(CALL), second language (L2) learners spoken data is an important resource for analysing and annotating typical L2 pronunciation errors. The annotation of L2 pronunciation errors in spoken data is not an easy task though, normally it requires manual annotation from trained linguists or phoneticians. In order to facilitate this task, in this paper, we present the MAT tool, a web-based tool intended to facilitate the annotation of L2 learners’ pronunciation errors at various levels. The tool has been designed taking into account recent studies on error detection in pronunciation training. It also aims at providing an easy and fast annotation process via a comprehensive and friendly user interface. The tool is based on the MARY TTS open source platform, from which it uses the components: text analyser (tokeniser, syllabifier, phonemiser), phonetic aligner and speech signal processor. Annotation results at sentence, word, syllable and phoneme levels are stored in XML format. The tool is currently under evaluation with a L2 learners spoken corpus recorded in the SPRINTER (Language Technology for Interactive, Multi-Media Online Language Learning) project.</abstract>
<identifier type="citekey">ai-charfuelan-2014-mat</identifier>
<location>
<url>http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/971_Paper.pdf</url>
</location>
<part>
<date>2014-05</date>
</part>
</mods>
</modsCollection>
%0 Conference Proceedings
%T MAT: a tool for L2 pronunciation errors annotation
%A Ai, Renlong
%A Charfuelan, Marcela
%Y Calzolari, Nicoletta
%Y Choukri, Khalid
%Y Declerck, Thierry
%Y Loftsson, Hrafn
%Y Maegaard, Bente
%Y Mariani, Joseph
%Y Moreno, Asuncion
%Y Odijk, Jan
%Y Piperidis, Stelios
%S Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’14)
%D 2014
%8 May
%I European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
%C Reykjavik, Iceland
%F ai-charfuelan-2014-mat
%X In the area of Computer Assisted Language Learning(CALL), second language (L2) learners spoken data is an important resource for analysing and annotating typical L2 pronunciation errors. The annotation of L2 pronunciation errors in spoken data is not an easy task though, normally it requires manual annotation from trained linguists or phoneticians. In order to facilitate this task, in this paper, we present the MAT tool, a web-based tool intended to facilitate the annotation of L2 learners’ pronunciation errors at various levels. The tool has been designed taking into account recent studies on error detection in pronunciation training. It also aims at providing an easy and fast annotation process via a comprehensive and friendly user interface. The tool is based on the MARY TTS open source platform, from which it uses the components: text analyser (tokeniser, syllabifier, phonemiser), phonetic aligner and speech signal processor. Annotation results at sentence, word, syllable and phoneme levels are stored in XML format. The tool is currently under evaluation with a L2 learners spoken corpus recorded in the SPRINTER (Language Technology for Interactive, Multi-Media Online Language Learning) project.
%U http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/971_Paper.pdf
Markdown (Informal)
[MAT: a tool for L2 pronunciation errors annotation](http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/971_Paper.pdf) (Ai & Charfuelan, LREC 2014)
ACL
- Renlong Ai and Marcela Charfuelan. 2014. MAT: a tool for L2 pronunciation errors annotation. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), Reykjavik, Iceland. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).