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ICMI
2003
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
A computer-animated tutor for spoken and written language learning
Baldi, a computer-animated talking head is introduced. The quality of his visible speech has been repeatedly modified and evaluated to accurately simulate naturally talking humans...
Dominic W. Massaro
NAACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Paraphrasing Predicates from Written Language to Spoken Language Using the Web
There are a lot of differences between expressions used in written language and spoken language. It is one of the reasons why speech synthesis applications are prone to produce un...
Nobuhiro Kaji, Masashi Okamoto, Sadao Kurohashi
ITS
2004
Springer
129views Multimedia» more  ITS 2004»
13 years 10 months ago
Spoken Versus Typed Human and Computer Dialogue Tutoring
While human tutors typically interact with students using spoken dialogue, most computer dialogue tutors are text-based. We have conducted two experiments comparing typed and spoke...
Diane J. Litman, Carolyn Penstein Rosé, Kat...
TASLP
2008
229views more  TASLP 2008»
13 years 4 months ago
System Combination for Machine Translation of Spoken and Written Language
This paper describes an approach for computing a consensus translation from the outputs of multiple machine translation (MT) systems. The consensus translation is computed by weigh...
Evgeny Matusov, Gregor Leusch, Rafael E. Banchs, N...
ASSETS
2000
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
An intelligent tutoring system for deaf learners of written English
This paper describes progress toward a prototype implementation of a tool which aims to improve literacy in deaf high school and college students who are native (or near native) s...
Lisa N. Michaud, Kathleen F. McCoy, Christopher A....