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Vajjala, Sowmya – International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2018
Automatic essay scoring (AES) refers to the process of scoring free text responses to given prompts, considering human grader scores as the gold standard. Writing such essays is an essential component of many language and aptitude exams. Hence, AES became an active and established area of research, and there are many proprietary systems used in…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Essays, Writing Evaluation, Scoring
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Aslin, Richard N.; Newport, Elissa L. – Language Learning, 2014
In the past 15 years, a substantial body of evidence has confirmed that a powerful distributional learning mechanism is present in infants, children, adults and (at least to some degree) in nonhuman animals as well. The present article briefly reviews this literature and then examines some of the fundamental questions that must be addressed for…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Grammar, Language Research, Computational Linguistics
Jangjamras, Jirapat – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study investigated the effects of first language prosodic transfer on the perception and production of English lexical stress and the relation between stress perception and production by second language learners. To test the effect of Thai tonal distribution rules and stress patterns on native Thai speakers' perception and production of…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Evidence, Acoustics, North American English
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Batchelder, Eleanor Olds – Cognition, 2002
Details BootLex, a model using distributional cues to build a lexicon and achieving significant segmentation results with English, Japanese, and Spanish; child- and adult-directed speech, and written text; and variations in coding structure. Compares BootLex with three groups of computational models of the infant segmentation process. Discusses…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Cognitive Development, Cues, Infants
Wilson, Robert D. – 1979
A schema developed for the teaching of reading involves five factors: learning, language, clues, mediums of communication, and adaptive processes. Learning involves four tasks, taught in the following sequence: comprehension, comparison of semantic shapes, composition of the whole into parts, and concentration. There are four general language…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Cues, Elementary Education