Klaus Zechner

Hagen Soltau, Florian Metze, Klaus Zechner, 2001, 2001 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. Proceedings (Cat. No.01CH37221).

Atypical Inputs in Educational Applications

Anastassia Loukina, Nitin Madnani, Su-Youn Yoon, 2018, NAACL-HLT.

Pronunciation accuracy and intelligibility of non-native speech

Anastassia Loukina, Klaus Zechner, David Suendermann-Oeft, 2015, INTERSPEECH.

Automatic Detection of Off-Topic Spoken Responses Using Very Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

Su-Youn Yoon, Klaus Zechner, Keelan Evanini, 2019, INTERSPEECH.

Adapting the acoustic model of a speech recognizer for varied proficiency non-native spontaneous speech using read speech with language-specific pronunciation difficulty

Klaus Zechner, Yoko Futagi, Derrick Higgins, 2009, INTERSPEECH.

Using Crowdsourcing to Provide Prosodic Annotations for Non-Native Speech

Klaus Zechner, Keelan Evanini, 2011, INTERSPEECH.

Discourse Modeling of Non-Native Spontaneous Speech Using the Rhetorical Structure Theory Framework

Klaus Zechner, Keelan Evanini, Xinhao Wang, 2018, 2018 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT).

Using Amazon Mechanical Turk for Transcription of Non-Native Speech

Klaus Zechner, Keelan Evanini, Derrick Higgins, 2010, Mturk@HLT-NAACL.

Automated Essay Scoring: Writing Assessment and Instruction

Klaus Zechner, Jill Burstein, Derrick Higgins, 2010 .

A discourse coding scheme for conversational Spanish

Alon Lavie, Klaus Zechner, Klaus Ries, 1998, ICSLP.

Learner corpora and automated scoring

Chaitanya Ramineni, Sylviane Granger, Klaus Zechner, 2015 .

Using bidirectional lstm recurrent neural networks to learn high-level abstractions of sequential features for automated scoring of non-native spontaneous speech

Klaus Zechner, David Suendermann-Oeft, Vikram Ramanarayanan, 2015, 2015 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU).

Comparative evaluation of automated scoring of syntactic competence of non-native speakers

Su-Youn Yoon, Klaus Zechner, Suma Bhat, 2017, Comput. Hum. Behav..

Automated Scoring of Spontaneous Speech Using SpeechRater? v1.0. Research Report. ETS RR-08-62.

Xiaoming Xi, David M. Williamson, Klaus Zechner, 2008 .

Using Very Deep Convolutional Neural Networks to Automatically Detect Plagiarized Spoken Responses

Klaus Zechner, Keelan Evanini, Xinhao Wang, 2019, 2019 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU).

Efficient Optimization for Bilingual Sentence Alignment Based on Linear Regression

Alexander H. Waibel, Klaus Zechner, Bing Zhao, 2003, ParallelTexts@NAACL-HLT.

Evaluating prosodic features for automated scoring of non-native read speech

Xiaoming Xi, Lei Chen, Klaus Zechner, 2011, 2011 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition & Understanding.

Summarization of Spoken Language Challenges, Methods, and Prospects

Klaus Zechner, 2002 .

TOWARD AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE ROLE OF SPEECH RECOGNITION IN NONNATIVE SPEECH ASSESSMENT

Klaus Zechner, Ramin Hemat, Isaac I. Bejar, 2007 .

Modeling Discourse Coherence for the Automated Scoring of Spontaneous Spoken Responses

Klaus Zechner, Keelan Evanini, Xinhao Wang, 2017, SLaTE.

Increasing the Coherence of Spoken Dialogue Summaries by Cross-Speaker Information Linking

Alon Lavie, Klaus Zechner, A. Lavie, 2001 .

Automated Scoring of Extended Spontaneous Speech

Anastassia Loukina, Klaus Zechner, K. Zechner, 2020 .

A Multimodal Dialog System for Language Assessment: Current State and Future Directions

Klaus Zechner, David Suendermann-Oeft, Keelan Evanini, 2017 .

Performance of Automated Speech Scoring on Different Low‐ to Medium‐Entropy Item Types for Low‐Proficiency English Learners

Anastassia Loukina, Su-Youn Yoon, Klaus Zechner, 2017 .

Exploring deep learning architectures for automatically grading non-native spontaneous speech

Lei Chen, Klaus Zechner, Shabnam Ghaffarzadegan, 2016, 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP).

Computing and Evaluating Syntactic Complexity Features for Automated Scoring of Spontaneous Non-Native Speech

Klaus Zechner, Miao Chen, K. Zechner, 2011, ACL.

Overview of Automated Speech Scoring

Klaus Zechner, Keelan Evanini, K. Zechner, 2019 .

Coherence Modeling for the Automated Assessment of Spontaneous Spoken Responses

Klaus Zechner, Keelan Evanini, Xinhao Wang, 2013, NAACL.

Feature selection for automated speech scoring

Anastassia Loukina, Lei Chen, Klaus Zechner, 2015, BEA@NAACL-HLT.

Automated scoring of speaking items in an assessment for teachers of English as a Foreign Language

Su-Youn Yoon, Lei Chen, Klaus Zechner, 2014, BEA@ACL.

AUTOMATED SCORING OF SPONTANEOUS SPEECH USING SPEECHRATERSM V1.0

Xiaoming Xi, David M. Williamson, Klaus Zechner, 2008 .

Applying rhythm metrics to non-native spontaneous speech

Klaus Zechner, Keelan Evanini, Catherine Lai, 2013, SLaTE.

INFERRING DISCOURSE STRUCTURE FROM SPEECH

Alex Waibel, Lori Levin, Alon Lavie, 1998 .

Automatic Summarization of Open-Domain Multiparty Dialogues in Diverse Genres

Klaus Zechner, K. Zechner, 2002, CL.

Exploring Content Features for Automated Speech Scoring

Klaus Zechner, Keelan Evanini, Shasha Xie, 2012, HLT-NAACL.

Using exemplar responses for training and evaluating automated speech scoring systems

Beata Beigman Klebanov, Anastassia Loukina, Klaus Zechner, 2018, BEA@NAACL-HLT.

Automated content scoring of spoken responses containing multiple parts with factual information

Lei Chen, Klaus Zechner, Keelan Evanini, 2013, SLaTE.

Using an Ontology for Improved Automated Content Scoring of Spontaneous Non-Native Speech

Klaus Zechner, Miao Chen, 2012, BEA@NAACL-HLT.

Recent Innovations in Machine Scoring of Studentand Test Taker–Written and –Spoken Responses

Chris Brew, Klaus Zechner, Jill Burstein, 2015 .

Using F0 contours to assess nativeness in a sentence repeat task

Anastassia Loukina, Klaus Zechner, Keelan Evanini, 2015, INTERSPEECH.

Improved pronunciation features for construct-driven assessment of non-native spontaneous speech

Xiaoming Xi, Lei Chen, Klaus Zechner, 2009, HLT-NAACL.

A Good Start is Half the Battle Won: Unsupervised Pre-training for Low Resource Children's Speech Recognition for an Interactive Reading Companion

Abhinav Misra, Beata Beigman Klebanov, Anastassia Loukina, 2021, AIED.

Automated Scoring of Nonnative Speech Using the SpeechRater SM v. 5.0 Engine

Anastassia Loukina, Su-Youn Yoon, Klaus Zechner, 2018 .

Monitoring the performance of human and automated scores for spoken responses

Klaus Zechner, K. Zechner, Zhen Wang, 2018 .

The importance of optimal parameter setting for pitch extraction.

Klaus Zechner, Catherine Lai, K. Zechner, 2010 .

The Impact of Asr Accuracy on the Performance of an Automated Scoring Engine for Spoken Responses

Lei Chen, Klaus Zechner, Keelan Evanini, .

A comparison of two scoring methods for an automated speech scoring system

Xiaoming Xi, David M. Williamson, Klaus Zechner, 2012 .

Automated Speaking Assessment

Klaus Zechner, Keelan Evanini, 2019 .

Using Rhetorical Structure Theory to Assess Discourse Coherence for Non-native Spontaneous Speech

Klaus Zechner, Keelan Evanini, Binod Gyawali, 2019, Proceedings of the Workshop on Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking 2019.