This study provides a method that increases the robustness of automated speech scoring. Responses with sub-optimal characteristics such as background noises, volume problems, nonEnglish speech, whispered speech, and non-responses make automated scoring more difficult. For instance, loud background noises distort the spectral characteristics of speech, and the performance of the prosody and pron...

Technology is being increasingly used to aid judging in sport, but its employment as the primary means of scoring is rare. We have developed and implemented a fully automated scoring system in the context of a modified, lowrisk form of boxing. The system, which requires contestants to wear vests and gloves incorporating sensor fabrics, has been used in multiple settings over the past five years...

For many years, the analysis of micronuclei (MN) has been successfully applied to human biomonitoring of in vivo genotoxin exposure and provides a sensitive and relatively easy methodology to assess genomic instability. However, there is a need for automation of MN analysis for rapid, more reliable and non-subjective MN detection. In this review, we evaluate the application of automated image a...

This study presents the results of applying automated speech scoring technology to English spoken responses provided by non-native children in the context of an English proficiency assessment for middle school students. The assessment contains three diverse task types designed to measure a student’s English communication skills, and an automated scoring system was used to extract features and b...

In this paper, we describe the evaluation of an automated in vitro micronucleus assay using CHO-K1 cells in 96-well plates. CHO-K1 cells were pre-loaded with a cell dye that stains the cytoplasm, after which the cells were treated with the test compounds for either 3h (for the +S9 condition) or 24h (for the -S9 condition). A total of 10 concentrations were tested, of which the top five concentr...

This paper examined validity evidence for the scores based on the Intelligent Essay Assessor (IEA), an automated essay-scoring engine developed by Pearson Knowledge Technologies. A study was carried out using the validity framework described by Yang, et al. (2002). This framework delineates three approaches to validation studies: examine the relationship among scores given to the same essays by...