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Applications of Natural Language Processing in Bilingual Language Teaching: An Indonesian-English Case Study
Authors: Zara Maxwelll-Smith, Simón González Ochoa, Ben Foley, Hanna Suominen
Editors: Jill Burstein, Ekaterina Kochmar, Claudia Leacock, Nitin Madnani, Ildikó Pilán, Helen Yannakoudakis, Torsten Zesch
Conference name: Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
Publication year: 2020
Journal: Annual 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 page: 134
eISBN: 978-1-952148-18-7
ISSN: 0736-587X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.bea-1.12
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/Publication/52185695
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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