Accuracy of peer ratings on the quality of spoken-language interpreting

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Chao Han ◽  
Xiao Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Spoken Language ◽  
Peer Ratings

scholarly journals Better Word Representation Vectors Using Syllabic Alphabet: A Case Study of Swahili

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (18) ◽  
pp. 3648
Author(s):  
Casper S. Shikali ◽  
Zhou Sijie ◽  
Liu Qihe ◽  
Refuoe Mokhosi
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Language Model ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Language Models ◽  
Word Embeddings ◽  
Word Representation

Deep learning has extensively been used in natural language processing with sub-word representation vectors playing a critical role. However, this cannot be said of Swahili, which is a low resource and widely spoken language in East and Central Africa. This study proposed novel word embeddings from syllable embeddings (WEFSE) for Swahili to address the concern of word representation for agglutinative and syllabic-based languages. Inspired by the learning methodology of Swahili in beginner classes, we encoded respective syllables instead of characters, character n-grams or morphemes of words and generated quality word embeddings using a convolutional neural network. The quality of WEFSE was demonstrated by the state-of-art results in the syllable-aware language model on both the small dataset (31.229 perplexity value) and the medium dataset (45.859 perplexity value), outperforming character-aware language models. We further evaluated the word embeddings using word analogy task. To the best of our knowledge, syllabic alphabets have not been used to compose the word representation vectors. Therefore, the main contributions of the study are a syllabic alphabet, WEFSE, a syllabic-aware language model and a word analogy dataset for Swahili.

How Old Do You Think I Am? Speech-Language Predictors of Perceived Age and Communicative Competence

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (7) ◽  
pp. 2455-2472
Author(s):  
Jean K. Gordon ◽  
Kim Andersen ◽  
Gabriella Perez ◽  
Eileen Finnegan
Keyword(s):  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Speech Rate ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Speech And Language ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Primary Means ◽  
Perceived Age ◽  
The Impact

Purpose Spoken language serves as a primary means of social interaction, but speech and language skills change with age, a potential source of age-related stereotyping. The goals of this study were to examine how accurately age could be estimated from language samples, to determine which speech and language cues were most informative, and to assess the impact of perceived age on judgments of the speakers' communication skills. Method We analyzed narratives from 84 speakers aged 30–89 years to identify age-related differences and compared these differences to factors affecting perceptions of age and communicative competence. Three groups of raters estimated the speakers' ages and judged the quality of their communication: 44 listeners listened to audio-recorded narratives, 51 readers read transcripts of the narratives, and 24 voice raters listened to 10-s samples of speech extracted from one of the narratives. Results Older speakers spoke more slowly but showed minimal linguistic differences compared to younger speakers. Speakers' ages were estimated quite accurately, even from 10-s samples. Estimates were largely based on cues available in the acoustic signal—speech rate and vocal characteristics—so listeners were more accurate than readers. However, an overreliance on these cues also contributed to overestimates of speakers' ages. Communication ratings were not strongly related to perceived age but were influenced by various aspects of speech and language. In particular, speakers who produced longer narratives and spoke more quickly were judged to be better communicators. Conclusion Speakers tend to be judged on relatively superficial aspects of spoken language, in part because age-related change is most evident at these levels. Implications of these findings for age-related theories of stereotyping and speech-language intervention are discussed.

Single‐item big five ratings in a social network design

2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaap J. A. Denissen ◽  
Rinie Geenen ◽  
Maarten Selfhout ◽  
Marcel A. G. van Aken
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Big Five ◽  
High Reliability ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Peer Ratings ◽  
Single Item ◽  
Peer Rating ◽  
Validity Criteria ◽  
Psychometric Quality

To develop and validate an ultra‐short measure to assess the Big Five in social network designs, the unipolar items of the Ten‐Item Personality Inventory were adapted to create a bipolar single‐item scale (TIPI‐r), including a new Openness item. Reliability was examined in terms of the internal consistency and test–retest stability of self‐ratings and peer‐rating composites (trait reputations). Validity was examined by means of convergence between TIPI‐r and Big Five Inventory (BFI) scores, self‐peer agreement and projection (intra‐ individual correlation between self‐ and peer‐ratings). The psychometric quality of the TIPI‐r differed somewhat between scales and the different reliability and validity criteria. The high reliability of the peer‐rating composites motivates to use the TIPI‐r in future studies employing social network designs. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Vocabulary Learning in Children with Cochlear Implants in Signed and Spoken Modalities

2020 ◽  
pp. 109-125
Author(s):  
Daan Hermans ◽  
Lian van Berkel-van Hoof ◽  
Harry Knoors
Keyword(s):  
Cochlear Implants ◽  
Hard Of Hearing ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Lexical Knowledge ◽  
Lexical Representations ◽  
Signed Language ◽  
Lexical Quality ◽  
Hearing Children ◽  
The Impact

The lexical quality hypothesis emphasizes the importance of the quantity and the quality of lexical knowledge for reading comprehension: children need to quickly and accurately access the meanings of the written words they encounter. This chapter discusses research on the quality and quantity of lexical representations in spoken language and in signed language in children with cochlear implants (CIs). It also describes the impact of three multimodal approaches that have been used to enhance the quantity and quality of lexical representations in deaf and hard-of-hearing children, including those with CIs: Cued Speech, orthographic information, and augmentative signs. The chapter argues that these three multimodal approaches are promising tools for enhancing the quality of lexical representations in spoken language in children with CIs.

Spoken Language of Individuals With Mild Fluent Aphasia Under Focused and Divided-Attention Conditions

1998 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 213-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura L. Murray ◽  
Audrey L. Holland ◽  
Pelagie M. Beeson
Keyword(s):  
Divided Attention ◽  
Qualitative Change ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Control Subjects ◽  
Word Finding ◽  
Description Task ◽  
Tone Discrimination ◽  
Dual Task Interference

The spoken language of individuals with mild aphasia and age-matched control subjects was studied under conditions of isolation, focused attention, and divided attention. A picture-description task was completed alone and in competition with a tone-discrimination task. Regardless of condition, individuals with aphasia performed more poorly on most morphosyntactic, lexical, and pragmatic measures of spoken language than control subjects. Increasing condition complexity resulted in little quantitative or qualitative change in the spoken language of the control group. In contrast, the individuals with aphasia showed dual-task interference; as they shifted from isolation to divided-attention conditions, they produced fewer syntactically complete and complex utterances, fewer words, and poorer word-finding accuracy. In pragmatic terms, their communication was considered less successful and less efficient. These results suggest that decrements of attentional capacity or its allocation may negatively affect the quantity and quality of the spoken language of individuals with mild aphasia.

scholarly journals Many Analysts, One Data Set: Making Transparent How Variations in Analytic Choices Affect Results

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 337-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Silberzahn ◽  
E. L. Uhlmann ◽  
D. P. Martin ◽  
P. Anselmi ◽  
F. Aust ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Research Question ◽  
Complex Data ◽  
Dark Skin ◽  
Prior Beliefs ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Peer Ratings ◽  
Research Teams ◽  
Light Skin ◽  
Positive Effect

Twenty-nine teams involving 61 analysts used the same data set to address the same research question: whether soccer referees are more likely to give red cards to dark-skin-toned players than to light-skin-toned players. Analytic approaches varied widely across the teams, and the estimated effect sizes ranged from 0.89 to 2.93 ( Mdn = 1.31) in odds-ratio units. Twenty teams (69%) found a statistically significant positive effect, and 9 teams (31%) did not observe a significant relationship. Overall, the 29 different analyses used 21 unique combinations of covariates. Neither analysts’ prior beliefs about the effect of interest nor their level of expertise readily explained the variation in the outcomes of the analyses. Peer ratings of the quality of the analyses also did not account for the variability. These findings suggest that significant variation in the results of analyses of complex data may be difficult to avoid, even by experts with honest intentions. Crowdsourcing data analysis, a strategy in which numerous research teams are recruited to simultaneously investigate the same research question, makes transparent how defensible, yet subjective, analytic choices influence research results.

scholarly journals “In un placete de La Mancha of which nombre no quiero remembrearme”: Don Quijote en spanglish y los desafíos de la traducción bilingüe

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Kunz
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Classical Text ◽  
Hispanic Culture ◽  
Don Quijote ◽  
American Scholar ◽  
La Mancha

Spanglish, the mixing of Spanish and English in oral and written communi-cation, has an increasing importance as a literary code. Challenged by derogatory comments on the poor aesthetic possibilities of Spanglish, Mexican American scholar Ilan Stavans translated the first chapter of Cervantes’ Don Quijote into a mixed language made of English, Spanish and hybrid words. The result provoked the hilarity of many readers, but also the indignation of Castilian purists who opposed the invasion of their mother tongue by a foreign language and the desecration of the most out- standing monument of the Hispanic Culture, while American Chicanos criticized the quality of the translation, arguing that Stavans ’ Spanglish fails to reflect accurately the reality of bilingual speech in daily life. In my paper I propose some reflections about this controversy and I try to analyse Stavans’ intentions and strategies in this translation of a canonical classical text into a non-normative and highly stigmatized variety of spoken language. As it is directed to a bilingual audience, this translation loses its principal raison d’être, that is to make the text understandable for foreign readers, but it fulfils other functions.

scholarly journals Literasi Literasi Sejarah Sebagai Upaya Penanaman Karakter Bagi Anak

Diakronika ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 153
Author(s):  
Hera Hastuti ◽  
Zafri Zafri ◽  
Iqrima Basri
Keyword(s):  
Human Behavior ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
Secondary Schooling ◽  
The People ◽  
Historical Figures ◽  
Historical Literacy

Education is the main way to advance a nation. Progress is not only in terms of technological or physical aspects but also progress in human behavior and civilization. So it is not strange that the character of the people of a nation is a reflection of the quality of education. At present, the problem of the character of Indonesia's young generation is crucial to be overcome. The decline in character does not only occur in children with minimal education, but also occurs in children with secondary schooling. Many cases are related to this character decline, for example in Nagari Sungai Nyalo, Pesisir Selatan Regency. Nagari Sungai Nyalo as an active area in tourism, but not accompanied by changes in the behavior of its generation for the better, is evident that there are still many children of Nagari Sungai Nyalo who extort extortion to tourists, besides the spoken language has not been used reflecting the values of politeness. Facing this problem several attempts were made, one of which was the inculcation of character values through historical literacy. The essence of history is a storehouse of values and characters, one of which can be obtained through the story of historical figures, such as; Buya Hamka, Mohammad Hatta, Agus Salim, Natsir, Tan Malaka and other historical figures. These figures are great figures who not only have intellectual intelligence but also have extraordinary character and character. The moral values and personalities of these figures need to be instilled in the younger generation of children, as the authors have done with the children of Nagari Sungai Nyalo in Pesisir Selatan Regency.

scholarly journals Prototyping Mobile Storytelling Applications for People with Aphasia

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Szklanny ◽  
Marcin Wichrowski ◽  
Alicja Wieczorkowska
Keyword(s):  
Language Skills ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Google Glass ◽  
Visual Storytelling ◽  
Usability Tests ◽  
Daily Experiences ◽  
National Competition

Aphasia is a partial or total loss of the ability to articulate ideas or comprehend spoken language, resulting from brain damage, in a person whose language skills were previously normal. Our goal was to find out how a storytelling app can help people with aphasia to communicate and share daily experiences. For this purpose, the Aphasia Create app was created for tablets, along with Aphastory for the Google Glass device. These applications facilitate social participation and enhance quality of life by using visual storytelling forms composed of photos, drawings, icons, etc., that can be saved and shared. We performed usability tests (supervised by a neuropsychologist) on six participants with aphasia who were able to communicate. Our work contributes (1) evidence that the functions implemented in the Aphasia Create tablet app suit the needs of target users, but older people are often not familiar with tactile devices, (2) reports that the Google Glass device may be problematic for persons with right-hand paresis, and (3) a characterization of the design guidelines for apps for aphasics. Both applications can be used to work with people with aphasia, and can be further developed. Aphasic centers, in which the apps were presented, expressed interest in using them to work with patients. The Aphasia Create app won the Enactus Poland National Competition in 2015.

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