The promise of NLP and speech processing technologies in language assessment.

Autor/inn/en	Chapelle, Carol A.; Chung, Yoo-Ree
Titel	The promise of NLP and speech processing technologies in language assessment.
Quelle	In: Language testing, 27 (2010) 3, S. 301-315Infoseite zur Zeitschrift Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben; Tabellen 2
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0265-5322
Schlagwörter	Empirische Forschung; Test; Leistungsbeurteilung; Methodik; Computer; Vergleichende Analyse; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Computerlinguistik; Situationsbericht
Abstract	Advances in natural language processing (NLP) and automatic speech recognition and processing technologies offer new opportunities for language testing. Despite their potential uses on a range of language test item types, relatively little work has been done in this area, and it is therefore not well understood by test developers, researchers or users in language assessment. The paper introduces NLP for language assessment as an area of inquiry and practice by describing the historical roots coming from computational linguistics, statistical NLP, speech recognition and processing technologies, language assessment, and computer-assisted language learning. It outlines uses of NLP and speech recognition and processing technologies in language assessment through illustrations of current testing projects, and identifies areas in need of further development. (Verlag, adapt.).
Erfasst von	Informationszentrum für Fremdsprachenforschung, Marburg
Update	2022/3