Research project

AUWL

AUWL (AUtomatic Web-based Learner feedback system) is a sequel of the C-AuDiT research project with digital publishing and FAU as partners. It aims at pronunciation and dialogue training for learners of English by presenting a dialogue of the day to language learners who should take over the role of the dialogue partners by, for instance, repeating (parroting) or shadowing the tutor's utterances; the learners' pronunciation is assessed and they are provided with automatically generated feedback.

Besides novel methods for pronunciation assessment, the second focus of research is how to automatically give a user the most useful feedback, accounting for the special needs and problems of the user.

Project manager:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Elmar Nöth

Project participants:
Dr. phil. Anton Batliner, Dipl.-Inf. Florian Hönig

Keywords:
Pronunciation Assessment; Dialog Training; Computer-Assisted Language Learning; E-Learning

Duration: 1.7.2010 - 31.12.2011

Sponsored by:
Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie

Mitwirkende Institutionen:
digital publishing

Contact:
Nöth, Elmar
Phone +49 9131 85 27888, Fax +49 9131 85 27270, E-Mail: elmar.noeth@fau.de

Publications

Hönig, Florian ; Batliner, Anton ; Nöth, Elmar: How Many Labellers Revisited - Naives, Experts, and Real Experts. In: Helmer Strik ; Catia Cucchiarini ; Rodolfo Delmonte ; Rocco Tripodi (Ed.) : Proceedings of the ISCA Special Interest Group on Speech and Language Technology in Education (Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE) Venice, Italy 24.-26.08.2011). 2011, pp no pagination.

Maier, Andreas ; Hönig, Florian ; Steidl, Stefan ; Nöth, Elmar ; Horndasch, Stefanie ; Sauerhöfer, Elisabeth ; Kratz, Oliver ; Moll, Gunther: An automatic version of a reading disorder test. In: ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing (TSLP) 7 (2011), No. 4, pp 17:1-17:15
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Hönig, Florian ; Batliner, Anton ; Nöth, Elmar: Does it Groove or Does it Stumble - Automatic Classification of Alcoholic Intoxication Using Prosodic Features. In: ISCA (Ed.) : Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech) Florence, Italy 27.-31.08.2011). 2011, pp 3225-3228.

Hönig, Florian ; Batliner, Anton ; Nöth, Elmar: Automatic Assessment of Non-Native Prosody: Annotation, Modelling and Evaluation. In: Olov Engwall (Ed.) : Proceedings of the International Symposium on Automatic Detection of Errors in Pronunciation Training (International Symposium on Automatic Detection of Errors in Pronunciation Training Stockholm, Sweden 6.6.-8.6.2012). 2012, pp 21-30.