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most citedThe Promises and Pitfalls of Using Language Models to Measure Instruction Quality in Education

6 citations · 14 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

eess.AS2026

Speaker Verification Under Real Classroom Conditions for English Speech

Saba Tabatabaee, Jing Liu, Meghavarshini Krishnaswamy +1

Developing speaker verification (SV) models that are robust to classroom noise and effective across both children and adult speakers is critical for AI tools supporting educational…

cs.SD2026

Multimodal Speaker Identification in Classroom Environments

Michael L. Chrzan, Meghavarshini Krishnaswamy, Robert Gibboni +3

Automated analysis of K-12 classroom dynamics faces challenges due to background noise and variable child speech, often confounding acoustic-only models. This study evaluates a mul…

eess.AS2025

Articulation-Informed ASR: Integrating Articulatory Features into ASR via Auxiliary Speech Inversion and Cross-Attention Fusion

Ahmed Adel Attia, Jing Liu, Carol Espy Wilson

Prior works have investigated the use of articulatory features as complementary representations for automatic speech recognition (ASR), but their use was largely confined to shallo…

cs.SD2025

RealClass: A Framework for Classroom Speech Simulation with Public Datasets and Game Engines

Ahmed Adel Attia, Jing Liu, Carol Espy Wilson

The scarcity of large-scale classroom speech data has hindered the development of AI-driven speech models for education. Classroom datasets remain limited and not publicly availabl…

cs.SD2025

SimClass: A Classroom Speech Dataset Generated via Game Engine Simulation For Automatic Speech Recognition Research

Ahmed Adel Attia, Jing Liu, Carl Espy-Wilson

The scarcity of large-scale classroom speech data has hindered the development of AI-driven speech models for education. Public classroom datasets remain limited, and the lack of a…

cs.SD2025

Abstract Sound Fusion with Unconditional Inversion Models

Jing Liu, Enqi Lian, Moyao Deng

An abstract sound is defined as a sound that does not disclose identifiable real-world sound events to a listener. Sound fusion aims to synthesize an original sound and a reference…

eess.AS2025★ 2 cited

FT-Boosted SV: Towards Noise Robust Speaker Verification for English Speaking Classroom Environments

Saba Tabatabaee, Jing Liu, Carol Espy-Wilson

Creating Speaker Verification (SV) systems for classroom settings that are robust to classroom noises such as babble noise is crucial for the development of AI tools that assist ed…

eess.AS2025

From Weak Labels to Strong Results: Utilizing 5,000 Hours of Noisy Classroom Transcripts with Minimal Accurate Data

Ahmed Adel Attia, Dorottya Demszky, Jing Liu +1

Recent progress in speech recognition has relied on models trained on vast amounts of labeled data. However, classroom Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) faces the real-world chall…

cs.CL2024★ 4 cited

CPT-Boosted Wav2vec2.0: Towards Noise Robust Speech Recognition for Classroom Environments

Ahmed Adel Attia, Dorottya Demszky, Tolulope Ogunremi +2

Creating Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems that are robust and resilient to classroom conditions is paramount to the development of AI tools to aid teachers and students.…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Continued Pretraining for Domain Adaptation of Wav2vec2.0 in Automatic Speech Recognition for Elementary Math Classroom Settings

Ahmed Adel Attia, Dorottya Demszky, Tolulope Ogunremi +2

Creating Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems that are robust and resilient to classroom conditions is paramount to the development of AI tools to aid teachers and students.…

cs.CL2024★ 6 cited

The Promises and Pitfalls of Using Language Models to Measure Instruction Quality in Education

Paiheng Xu, Jing Liu, Nathan Jones +2

Assessing instruction quality is a fundamental component of any improvement efforts in the education system. However, traditional manual assessments are expensive, subjective, and…

eess.AS2023★ 1 cited

Kid-Whisper: Towards Bridging the Performance Gap in Automatic Speech Recognition for Children VS. Adults

Ahmed Adel Attia, Jing Liu, Wei Ai +2

Recent advancements in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems, exemplified by Whisper, have demonstrated the potential of these systems to approach human-level performance give…