3 papers
cs.CL2025
Multi-task Pretraining for Enhancing Interpretable L2 Pronunciation Assessment
Jiun-Ting Li, Bi-Cheng Yan, Yi-Cheng Wang +1
Automatic pronunciation assessment (APA) analyzes second-language (L2) learners' speech by providing fine-grained pronunciation feedback at various linguistic levels. Most existing…
cs.CL2024
Automated Speaking Assessment of Conversation Tests with Novel Graph-based Modeling on Spoken Response Coherence
Jiun-Ting Li, Bi-Cheng Yan, Tien-Hong Lo +3
Automated speaking assessment in conversation tests (ASAC) aims to evaluate the overall speaking proficiency of an L2 (second-language) speaker in a setting where an interlocutor i…
eess.AS2024
ConPCO: Preserving Phoneme Characteristics for Automatic Pronunciation Assessment Leveraging Contrastive Ordinal Regularization
Bi-Cheng Yan, Wei-Cheng Chao, Jiun-Ting Li +4
Automatic pronunciation assessment (APA) manages to evaluate the pronunciation proficiency of a second language (L2) learner in a target language. Existing efforts typically draw o…