On the application of Large Language Models for language teaching and assessment technology

no code implementations • 17 Jul 2023 • Andrew Caines, Luca Benedetto, Shiva Taslimipoor, Christopher Davis, Yuan Gao, Oeistein Andersen, Zheng Yuan, Mark Elliott, Russell Moore, Christopher Bryant, Marek Rei, Helen Yannakoudakis, Andrew Mullooly, Diane Nicholls, Paula Buttery

The recent release of very large language models such as PaLM and GPT-4 has made an unprecedented impact in the popular media and public consciousness, giving rise to a mixture of excitement and fear as to their capabilities and potential uses, and shining a light on natural language processing research which had not previously received so much attention.

Grammatical Error Correction Misinformation +1

Adaptive Forgetting Curves for Spaced Repetition Language Learning

no code implementations • 23 Apr 2020 • Ahmed Zaidi, Andrew Caines, Russell Moore, Paula Buttery, Andrew Rice

The forgetting curve has been extensively explored by psychologists, educationalists and cognitive scientists alike.

Curriculum Q-Learning for Visual Vocabulary Acquisition

no code implementations • 29 Nov 2017 • Ahmed H. Zaidi, Russell Moore, Ted Briscoe

The structure of curriculum plays a vital role in our learning process, both as children and adults.

Q-Learning Reinforcement Learning

Automated speech-unit delimitation in spoken learner English

no code implementations • COLING 2016 • Russell Moore, Andrew Caines, Calbert Graham, Paula Buttery

In order to apply computational linguistic analyses and pass information to downstream applications, transcriptions of speech obtained via automatic speech recognition (ASR) need to be divided into smaller meaningful units, in a task we refer to as {`}speech-unit (SU) delimitation{'}.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +3