4 papers
A Novel Sentence Stress Detection Framework Leveraging Auxiliary Word-Stress Modeling and Loss Optimization
Tien-Hong Lo, Fong-Chun Tsai, Ting-An Hung +3
Prosodic stress is a crucial aspect of automatic pronunciation assessment (APA), encompassing both sentence stress detection (SSD) and word stress detection (WSD). SSD highlights s…
An Effective Strategy for Modeling Score Ordinality and Non-uniform Intervals in Automated Speaking Assessment
Tien-Hong Lo, Szu-Yu Chen, Yao-Ting Sung +1
A recent line of research on automated speaking assessment (ASA) has benefited from self-supervised learning (SSL) representations, which capture rich acoustic and linguistic patte…
Beyond Modality Limitations: A Unified MLLM Approach to Automated Speaking Assessment with Effective Curriculum Learning
Yu-Hsuan Fang, Tien-Hong Lo, Yao-Ting Sung +1
Traditional Automated Speaking Assessment (ASA) systems exhibit inherent modality limitations: text-based approaches lack acoustic information while audio-based methods miss semant…
An Effective Automated Speaking Assessment Approach to Mitigating Data Scarcity and Imbalanced Distribution
Tien-Hong Lo, Fu-An Chao, Tzu-I Wu +2
Automated speaking assessment (ASA) typically involves automatic speech recognition (ASR) and hand-crafted feature extraction from the ASR transcript of a learner's speech. Recentl…