Automatic physiotherapy instruction

Automatic Selection of Collocations for Instruction

For teaching of collocations no resource exists that comprehensively ranks collocations in terms of usefulness for learners. Towards developing a method to produce such a resource, we define a collocation's utility in terms of its unpredictability; the inability of a student to derive the meaning of the collocation from her semantic knowledge of its constituent words. We conduct an experiment c...

Automatic pronunciation scoring for language instruction

This work is part of an effort aimed at developing computer-based systems for language instruction; we address the task of grading the pronunciation quality of the speech of a student of a foreign language. The automatic grading system uses SRI's Decipher™ continuous speech recognition system to generate phonetic segmentations. Based on these segmentations and probabilistic models we produce pr...

Automatic detection of mispronunciation for language instruction

This work is part of a project aimed at developing a speech recognition system for language instruction that can assess the quality of pronunciation, identify pronunciation problems, and provide the student with accurate feedback about specific mistakes. Previous work was mainly concerned with scoring the quality of pronunciation. In this work we focus on automatic detection of mispronunciation...

Automatic Measurement of Instruction Cache Capacity

There is growing interest in autonomic computing systems that can optimize their own behavior on different platforms without manual intervention. Examples of successful self-optimizing systems are ATLAS, which generates Basic Linear Algebra Subroutine (BLAS) Libraries, and FFTW, which generates FFT libraries. Self-optimizing systems may need the values of hardware parameters such as the number ...

Automatic Design of Computer Instruction Sets