Automated Content Scoring of Spoken Responses in an Assessment for Teachers of English

Prompt-based Content Scoring for Automated Spoken Language Assessment

Atypical Inputs in Educational Applications

In large-scale educational assessments, the use of automated scoring has recently become quite common. While the majority of student responses can be processed and scored without difficulty, there are a small number of r…

Application of an Automatic Plagiarism Detection System in a Large-scale Assessment of English Speaking Proficiency

This study aims to build an automatic system for the detection of plagiarized spoken responses in the context of an assessment of English speaking proficiency for non-native speakers. Classification models were trained t…

Using Rhetorical Structure Theory to Assess Discourse Coherence for Non-native Spontaneous Speech

This study aims to model the discourse structure of spontaneous spoken responses within the context of an assessment of English speaking proficiency for non-native speakers. Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) has been com…

Building Better Open-Source Tools to Support Fairness in Automated Scoring

Automated scoring of written and spoken responses is an NLP application that can significantly impact lives especially when deployed as part of high-stakes tests such as the GRE® and the TOEFL®. Ethical considerations re…