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Flexible and Interpretable Accent Distance Measurements
Charles McGhee, Mark J. F. Gales, Kate M. Knill
Determining the differences between two speakers' accents is a fundamental task in linguistics and speech technology research. The methodology used to measure these differences dep…
Controlling Implicit Shortcut Reliance in L2 Spoken English Auto-markers
Shilin Gao, Mark J. F. Gales, Kate M. Knill
Increasingly, speech and language processing tasks take either audio or text directly rather than extracting features from these as the input to the classifier or regressor. Often…
Data Augmentation for L2 English Speaking Assessment using TTS
Stefano Bannò, Penny Karanasou, Mengjie Qian +2
Automated assessment of second language (L2) speaking proficiency relies on large-scale annotated speech data, which remains scarce compared to widely available written learner cor…
To Be Multimodal or Not to Be: Query-Adaptive Audio-Visual Person Retrieval via Active Modality Detection
Erfan Loweimi, Mengjie Qian, Kate Knill +7
When retrieving a person from a video archive by voice and face, should the system be multimodal or not? In real-world broadcast archives, unlike curated benchmarks, a target may b…
Towards Self-Referential Analytic Assessment: A Profile-Based Approach to L2 Writing Evaluation with LLMs
Stefano Bannò, Kate Knill, Mark Gales
Automated essay scoring (AES) research often relies on rank-based correlation metrics to validate analytic assessment. However, such metrics obscure both intrinsic intercorrelation…
The Impact of Editorial Intervention on Detecting Native Language Traces
Ahmet Yavuz Uluslu, Mark Gales, Kate Knill +1
Native Language Identification (NLI) is the task of determining an author's native language (L1) from their non-native writing. With the advent of human-AI co-authorship, learner t…