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Design and Analysis of a Database to Evaluate Children’s Reading Aloud Performance

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dc.contributor.authorProença, Jorge
dc.contributor.authorCelorico, Dirce
dc.contributor.authorLopes, Carla, Alexandra Calado Lopes
dc.contributor.authorDias, Miguel Sales
dc.contributor.authorTjalve, Michael
dc.contributor.authorStolcke, Andreas
dc.contributor.authorCandeias, Sara
dc.contributor.authorPerdigão, Fernando
dc.date.accessioned2025-07-17T16:51:21Z
dc.date.available2025-07-17T16:51:21Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractTo evaluate the reading performance of children, human assessment is usually involved, where a teacher or tutor has to take time to individually estimate the performance in terms of fluency (speed, accuracy and expression). Automatic estimation of reading ability can be an important alternative or complement to the usual methods, and can improve other applications such as elearning. Techniques must be developed to analyse audio recordings of read utterances by children and detect the deviations from the intended correct reading i.e. disfluencies. For that goal, a database of 284 European Portuguese children from 6 to 10 years old (1st-4th grades) reading aloud amounting to 20 hours was collected in private and public Portuguese schools. This paper describes the design of the reading tasks as well as the data collection procedure. The presence of different types of disfluencies is analysed as well as reading performance compared to known curricular goals.eng
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was supported in part by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia under the projects UID/EEA/50008/2013 (pluriannual funding in the scope of the LETSREAD project), and Marie Curie Action IRIS (ref. 610986, FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IAPP). Jorge Proença is supported by the SFRH/BD/97204/2013 FCT Grant. We would like to thank João de Deus, Bissaya Barreto and EBI de Pereira school associations and CASPAE parent’s association for collaborating in the database collection.
dc.identifier.citationProença, J. et al. (2016). Design and Analysis of a Database to Evaluate Children’s Reading Aloud Performance. In: Silva, J., Ribeiro, R., Quaresma, P., Adami, A., Branco, A. (eds) Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language. PROPOR 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9727. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41552-9_39
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/978-3-319-41552-9_39
dc.identifier.isbn9783319415512
dc.identifier.isbn9783319415529
dc.identifier.issn0302-9743
dc.identifier.issn1611-3349
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/13710
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedn/a
dc.publisherSpringer International Publishing
dc.relationUID/EEA/50008/2013
dc.relation.hasversionhttps://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-41552-9_39
dc.relation.ispartofLecture Notes in Computer Science
dc.relation.ispartofComputational Processing of the Portuguese Language
dc.rights.uriN/A
dc.subjectReading Aloud Performance
dc.subjectChild Speech
dc.subjectSpeech Corpus
dc.subjectReading Disfluencies
dc.titleDesign and Analysis of a Database to Evaluate Children’s Reading Aloud Performanceeng
dc.typeconference paper
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oaire.citation.titleComputational Processing of the Portuguese Language (PROPOR 2016)
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