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eess.AS2026
Data Augmentation for L2 English Speaking Assessment using TTS
Stefano Bannò, Penny Karanasou, Mengjie Qian +2
Automated assessment of second language (L2) speaking proficiency requires substantial annotated speech data, which are scarce compared to written learner corpora. We investigate w…
eess.AS2025
Natural Language-based Assessment of L2 Oral Proficiency using LLMs
Stefano Bannò, Rao Ma, Mengjie Qian +3
Natural language-based assessment (NLA) is an approach to second language assessment that uses instructions - expressed in the form of can-do descriptors - originally intended for…
eess.AS2024★ 5 cited
Learn and Don't Forget: Adding a New Language to ASR Foundation Models
Mengjie Qian, Siyuan Tang, Rao Ma +2
Foundation ASR models often support many languages, e.g. 100 languages in Whisper. However, there has been limited work on integrating an additional, typically low-resource, langua…