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| Title | Principled Construction of Elicited Imitation Tests |
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| Authors | Carl Christensen, Ross Hendrickson and Deryle Lonsdale |
| Abstract | In this paper we discuss the methodology behind the construction ofelicited imitation (EI) test items. First we examine varying uses for EItests in research and in testing overall oral proficiency. We alsomention criticisms of previous test items. Then we identify thefactors that contribute to the difficulty of an EI item as shown inprevious studies. Based on this discussion, we describe a way ofautomating the creation of test items in order to better evaluatelanguage learners' oral proficiency while improving itemnaturalness. We present a new item construction tool and the processthat it implements in order to create test items from a corpus,identifying relevant features needed to compile a database ofEI test items. We examine results from administration of a new EI testengineered in this manner, illustrating the effect that standardlanguage resources can have on creating an effective EI testitem repository. We also sketch ongoing work on test itemgeneration for other languages and an adaptive test that will use this collection of test items. |
| Language | Corpus (creation, annotation, etc.) |
| Topics | Tools, systems, applications, Acquisition, Corpus (creation, annotation, etc.) |
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Principled Construction of Elicited Imitation Tests |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{CHRISTENSEN10.672, author = {Carl Christensen, Ross Hendrickson and Deryle Lonsdale}, title = {Principled Construction of Elicited Imitation Tests}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)}, year = {2010}, month = {may}, date = {19-21}, address = {Valletta, Malta}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odjik, Stelios Piperidis, Mike Rosner, Daniel Tapias}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {2-9517408-6-7}, language = {english} } |