Adapting the NICT-JLE Corpus for Disfluency Detection Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2308.02482v1
• Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2023 17:54:52 GMT
• Title: Adapting the NICT-JLE Corpus for Disfluency Detection Models
• Authors: Lucy Skidmore and Roger K. Moore
• Abstract summary: This paper describes the adaptation of the NICT-JLE corpus to a format suitable for disfluency detection model training and evaluation. Points of difference between the NICT-JLE and Switchboard corpora are explored, followed by a detailed overview of adaptations to the tag set and meta-features. The result of this work provides a standardised train, heldout and test set for use in future research on disfluency detection for learner speech.
• Score: 9.90780328490921
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: The detection of disfluencies such as hesitations, repetitions and false starts commonly found in speech is a widely studied area of research. With a standardised process for evaluation using the Switchboard Corpus, model performance can be easily compared across approaches. This is not the case for disfluency detection research on learner speech, however, where such datasets have restricted access policies, making comparison and subsequent development of improved models more challenging. To address this issue, this paper describes the adaptation of the NICT-JLE corpus, containing approximately 300 hours of English learners' oral proficiency tests, to a format that is suitable for disfluency detection model training and evaluation. Points of difference between the NICT-JLE and Switchboard corpora are explored, followed by a detailed overview of adaptations to the tag set and meta-features of the NICT-JLE corpus. The result of this work provides a standardised train, heldout and test set for use in future research on disfluency detection for learner speech.

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