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Applications of Natural Language Processing in Bilingual Language Teaching: An Indonesian-English Case Study




AuthorsZara Maxwelll-Smith, Simón González Ochoa, Ben Foley, Hanna Suominen

EditorsJill Burstein, Ekaterina Kochmar, Claudia Leacock, Nitin Madnani, Ildikó Pilán, Helen Yannakoudakis, Torsten Zesch

Conference nameWorkshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications

Publication year2020

JournalAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Book title Proceedings of the Fifteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA)

First page 124

Last page134

eISBN978-1-952148-18-7

ISSN0736-587X

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.bea-1.12

Self-archived copy’s web addresshttps://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/Publication/52185695


Abstract

Multilingual corpora are difficult to compile and a classroom setting adds pedagogy to the mix of factors which make this data so rich and problematic to classify. In this paper, we set out methodological considerations of using automated speech recognition to build a corpus of teacher speech in an Indonesian language classroom. Our preliminary results (64% word error rate) suggest these tools have the potential to speed data collection in this context. We provide practical examples of our data structure, details of our piloted computer-assisted processes, and fine-grained error analysis. Our study is informed and directed by genuine research questions and discussion in both the education and computational linguistics fields. We highlight some of the benefits and risks of using these emerging technologies to analyze the complex work of language teachers and in education more generally.


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