no code implementations • 17 Aug 2020 • Anastassia Loukina, Keelan Evanini, Matthew Mulholland, Ian Blood, Klaus Zechner
However, these differences do not lead to differences in human or automated scores of English language proficiency.
no code implementations • WS 2019 • Xinhao Wang, Binod Gyawali, James V. Bruno, Hillary R. Molloy, Keelan Evanini, Klaus Zechner
This study aims to model the discourse structure of spontaneous spoken responses within the context of an assessment of English speaking proficiency for non-native speakers.
no code implementations • WS 2017 • Shervin Malmasi, Keelan Evanini, Aoife Cahill, Joel Tetreault, Robert Pugh, Christopher Hamill, Diane Napolitano, Yao Qian
We believe this makes for a more interesting shared task while building on the methods and results from the previous two shared tasks.
no code implementations • ACL 2017 • Xinhao Wang, James Bruno, Hillary Molloy, Keelan Evanini, Klaus Zechner
Considering that the measurement of discourse coherence is typically a key metric in human scoring rubrics for assessments of spoken language, we initiated a research effort to obtain RST annotations of a large number of non-native spoken responses from a standardized assessment of academic English proficiency.