3 papers
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…
cs.CL2025
Assessment of L2 Oral Proficiency using Speech Large Language Models
Rao Ma, Mengjie Qian, Siyuan Tang +3
The growing population of L2 English speakers has increased the demand for developing automatic graders for spoken language assessment (SLA). Historically, statistical models, text…
cs.CL2024
Speak & Improve Challenge 2025: Tasks and Baseline Systems
Mengjie Qian, Kate Knill, Stefano Banno +4
This paper presents the "Speak & Improve Challenge 2025: Spoken Language Assessment and Feedback" -- a challenge associated with the ISCA SLaTE 2025 Workshop. The goal of the chall…