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Automatic Assessment of Text Complexity Levels in European Portuguese

The assessment of text readability and the classification of texts by complexity levels is essential for language education and language-related industries that rely on effective communication. The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) provides a widely recognized framework for classifying language proficiency levels. This framework can be used not only to assess the proficiency of learner...

Hierarchical Multi-Label Dialog Act Recognition on Spanish Data

Dialog acts reveal the intention behind the uttered words. Thus, their automatic recognition is important for a dialog system trying to understand its conversational partner. The study presented in this article approaches that task on the DIHANA corpus, whose three-level dialog act annotation scheme poses problems which have not been explored in recent studies. In addition to the hierarchical problem, the two l...

Combining Multiple Approaches to Predict the Degree of Nativeness

Automatic speaker nativeness assessment has multiple applications, such as second language learning and IVR systems. In this paper we view this as a regression problem, since the available labels are on a continuous scale. Multiple approaches were applied, such as phonotactic models, i-vectors, and goodness of pronunciation, covering both segmental and suprasegmental features. Different phonotactic models were ...

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