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The LetsRead Corpus of Portuguese children reading aloud for performance evaluation
| dc.contributor.author | Proença, Jorge | |
| dc.contributor.author | Celorico, Dirce | |
| dc.contributor.author | Candeias, Sara | |
| dc.contributor.author | Lopes, Carla | |
| dc.contributor.author | Perdigão, Fernando | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-06-17T14:28:01Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-06-17T14:28:01Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper introduces the LetsRead Corpus of European Portuguese read speech from 6 to 10 years old children. The motivation for the creation of this corpus stems from the inexistence of databases with recordings of reading tasks of Portuguese children with different performance levels and including all the common reading aloud disfluencies. It is also essential to develop techniques to fulfill the main objective of the LetsRead project: to automatically evaluate the reading performance of children through the analysis of reading tasks. The collected data amounts to 20 hours of speech from 284 children from private and public Portuguese schools, with each child carrying out two tasks: reading sentences and reading a list of pseudowords, both with varying levels of difficulty throughout the school grades. In this paper, the design of the reading tasks presented to children is described, as well as the collection procedure. Manually annotated data is analyzed according to disfluencies and reading performance. The considered word difficulty parameter is also confirmed to be suitable for the pseudoword reading tasks. | eng |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This 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.isbn | 978-295174089-1 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/13300 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.peerreviewed | n/a | |
| dc.publisher | European Language Resources Association (ELRA) | |
| dc.relation.hasversion | https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84997286084&origin=inward&txGid=5de4267bb17dee72547085ed848fb080 | |
| dc.rights.uri | N/A | |
| dc.subject | Children’s speech | |
| dc.subject | Reading disfluencies | |
| dc.subject | European Portuguese | |
| dc.title | The LetsRead Corpus of Portuguese children reading aloud for performance evaluation | eng |
| dc.type | conference paper | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.citation.conferenceDate | 2016 | |
| oaire.citation.endPage | 785 | |
| oaire.citation.startPage | 781 | |
| oaire.citation.title | 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2016 | |
| oaire.version | http://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85 | |
| person.familyName | Lopes | |
| person.givenName | Carla | |
| person.identifier.ciencia-id | AF14-3048-F510 | |
| person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0002-5366-0016 | |
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