A Shared Task for Spoken CALL?

Claudia Baur, Johanna Gerlach, Manny Rayner, Martin Russell, Helmer Strik


Abstract
We argue that the field of spoken CALL needs a shared task in order to facilitate comparisons between different groups and methodologies, and describe a concrete example of such a task, based on data collected from a speech-enabled online tool which has been used to help young Swiss German teens practise skills in English conversation. Items are prompt-response pairs, where the prompt is a piece of German text and the response is a recorded English audio file. The task is to label pairs as “accept” or “reject”, accepting responses which are grammatically and linguistically correct to match a set of hidden gold standard answers as closely as possible. Initial resources are provided so that a scratch system can be constructed with a minimal investment of effort, and in particular without necessarily using a speech recogniser. Training data for the task will be released in June 2016, and test data in January 2017.
Anthology ID:
L16-1036
Volume:
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)
Month:
May
Year:
2016
Address:
Portorož, Slovenia
Editors:
Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Marko Grobelnik, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Helene Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
Venue:
LREC
SIG:
Publisher:
European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
Note:
Pages:
237–244
Language:
URL:
https://aclanthology.org/L16-1036
DOI:
Bibkey:
Cite (ACL):
Claudia Baur, Johanna Gerlach, Manny Rayner, Martin Russell, and Helmer Strik. 2016. A Shared Task for Spoken CALL?. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 237–244, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
Cite (Informal):
A Shared Task for Spoken CALL? (Baur et al., LREC 2016)
Copy Citation:
PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/L16-1036.pdf