Towards Using Conversations with Spoken Dialogue Systems in the Automated Assessment of Non-Native Speakers of English
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Existing speaking tests only require nonnative speakers to engage in dialogue when the assessment is done by humans. This paper examines the viability of using off-the-shelf systems for spoken dialogue and for speech grading to automate the holistic scoring of the conversational speech of non-native speakers of English.
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