Inclusive AI for Language Learning
Nancy F. Chen

Analyzing Multiple-Choice Reading and Listening Comprehension Tests
Vatsal Raina, Adian Liusie, Mark Gales

Comparing phoneme recognition systems on the detection and diagnosis of reading mistakes for young children's oral reading evaluation
Lucile Gelin, Morgane Daniel, Thomas Pellegrini, Julien Pinquier

Measuring Word Correctness in Young Initial Readers: Comparing Assessments from Teachers, Phoneticians, and ASR Models
Wieke Harmsen, Ferdy Hubers, Roeland van Hout, Catia Cucchiarini, Helmer Strik

Enhancing ASR-Based Educational Applications: Peer Evaluation of Non-Native Child Speech
Simone Wills, Cristian Tejedor-Garcia, Catia Cucchiarini, Helmer Strik

A pronunciation Scoring System Embedded into Children’s Foreign Language Learning Games with Experimental Verification of Learning Benefits
Reima Karhila, Sari Ylinen, Anna-Riikka Smolander, Aku Rouhe, Ragheb Al-Ghezi, Yaroslav Getman, Tamas Grosz, Maria Uther, Mikko Kurimo

SpeechBlender: Speech Augmentation Framework for Mispronunciation Data Generation
Yassine EL Kheir, Shammur Chowdhury, Ahmed Ali, Hamdy Mubarak, Shazia Afzal

Sensitivity to Phonemic Contrasts and Insensitivity to Non-phonemic Contrasts of Various Speech Representations Tested for L2 Speech Assessment
Haitong Sun, Yingxiang Gao, Yusuke Shozui, Tong Ma, Nobuaki Minematsu

Multi-task wav2vec2 Serving as a Pronunciation Training System for Children
Yaroslav Getman, Ragheb Al-Ghezi, Tamas Grosz, Mikko Kurimo

Can the decoded text from automatic speech recognition effectively detect spoken grammar errors?
Chowdam Venkata Thirumala Kumar, Meenakshi Sirigiraju, Rakesh Vaideeswaran, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh, Chiranjeevi Yarra

Learners' Prosodic Control in the Task of Expressive Storytelling and Predicted Native Listeners' Impressions of the Learners' Speech
Chihiro Shoda, Yingxiang Gao, Yurun He, Nobuaki Minematsu, Noriko Nakanishi, Daisuke Saito

Distinctive Features for Classifying Spoken Native Versus Non-Native Speech
Xing Wei, Catia Cucchiarini, Roeland van Hout, Helmer Strik

Using Practice Data to Measure the Progress of CALL System Users
Wenwei Dong, Akos Steger, Muzakki Bashori, Roeland van Hout, Helmer Strik

End-to-End Mispronunciation Detection and Diagnosis for Non-native English Speech
Wenwei Dong, Catia Cucchiarini, Helmer Strik

Towards Acoustic-to-Articulatory Inversion for Pronunciation Training
Charles G McGhee, Katherine M Knill, Mark Gales

Mispronunciation detection using self-supervised speech representations
Jazmín Vidal, Pablo Riera, Luciana Ferrer

Analyzing the Trade Space in Multi-lingual Automatic Text Difficulty Estimation
Esther Gupta, Douglas Jones

Effective Neural Modeling Leveraging Readability Features for Automated Essay Scoring
Tzu-I Wu, Tien-Hong Lo, Fu-An Chao, Yao-Ting Sung, Berlin Chen

Multi-View Multi-Task Representation Learning for Mispronunciation Detection
Yassine EL Kheir, Shammur Chowdhury, Ahmed Ali

BERT Models for Disfluency Detection of Spoken Learner English
Lucy Skidmore, Roger Moore

Flowchase: a Mobile Application for Pronunciation Training
Noé Tits, Zoé Broisson

ELSA Speech Analyzer: English Communication Assessment of Spontaneous Speech
Xavier Anguera, Jorge Proenca, Kristina Gulordava, Balazs Tarjan, Nicholas Parslow, Vladimir Dobrovolskii, Francisco Valente, Raphael Girard

ListenHere: a CALL integration resource for migrants in Ireland using local community sourced material
Emer Gilmartin, Anna Zajko, Ciara Hamilton

Automatic Assessment of Conversational Speaking Tests
Simon W McKnight, Arda Civelekoglu, Mark Gales, Stefano Bannò, Adian Liusie, Katherine M Knill

Adapting an ASR Foundation Model for Spoken Language Assessment
Rao Ma, Mengjie Qian, Mark Gales, Katherine M Knill

Graph-Enhanced Transformer Architecture with Novel Use of CEFR Vocabulary Profile and Filled Pauses in Automated Speaking Assessment
Jiun Ting Li, Tien-Hong Lo, Bi-Cheng Yan, Yung-Chang Hsu, Berlin Chen

Retention Effects of Form-focused English Speaking Training Based on Question-Answering Task in Comparison with Repeating Task using Robot-assisted Language Learning System
Daiki Muramoto, Tsuneo Kato, Akihiro Tamura, Seiichi Yamamoto

Towards Automatically Assessing Children's Oral Picture Description Tasks
Hariram Veeramani, Natarajan Balaji Shankar, Alexander Johnson, Abeer Alwan

Measuring Intelligibility in Non-native Speech: The Usability of Automatically Extracted Acoustic-Phonetic Features
Xing Wei, Catia Cucchiarini, Roeland van Hout, Helmer Strik

Assessment of L2 Oral Proficiency Using Self-Supervised Speech Representation Learning
Stefano Bannò, Katherine M Knill, Marco Matassoni, Vyas Raina, Mark Gales

Density and Entropy of Spoken Syllables in American English and Japanese English Estimated with Acoustic Word Embeddings
Yusuke Shozui, Nobuaki Minematsu, Noriko Nakanishi, Daisuke Saito

Grammatical Error Correction for L2 Speech Using Publicly Available Data
Stefano Bannò, Michela Rais, Marco Matassoni

Unsupervised Multilingual Topic Segmentation of Video Lectures: What can Hierarchical Labels tell us about the Performance?
Steffen Freisinger, Fabian Schneider, Aaricia Herygers, Munir Georges, Tobias Bocklet, Korbinian Riedhammer

Annotation of L2 English Speech for Developing and Evaluating End-to-End Spoken Grammatical Error Correction
Katherine M Knill, Diane Nicholls, Mark Gales, Pawel Stroinski, Alex Watkinson

Exploring Speech Representations for Proficiency Assessment in Language Learning
Elaf Islam, Chanho Park, Thomas Hain

A Punctuation Restoration System For L2 Speech Using Text And Acoustic Features
Seongjin Park, Aaron Albin, Rutuja Ubale

Learner and Linguistic Factors in Commercial ASR Use for Spoken Language Practice: A Focus on Form
Elizabeth Bear, Stephen Bodnar, Xiaobin Chen

New data, benchmark and baseline for L2 speaking assessment for low-resource languages
Mikko Kurimo, Yaroslav Getman, Ekaterina Voskoboinik, Ragheb Al-Ghezi, Heini Kallio, Mikko Kuronen, Anna von Zansen, Raili Hilden, Sirkku Kronholm, Ari Huhta, Krister Linden

An Bat Mírialta: Stateful Development of an Irregular Verb Bot for Irish
John Sloan, Neasa Ní Chiaráin

Filling the SLaTE: examining the contribution LLMs can make to Irish iCALL content generation
Neasa Ní Chiaráin, Oisín Nolan, Neimhin Robinson Gunning, Madeleine Comtois

Mol an Óige: a phonological awareness and early literacy platform for Irish
Ailbhe Ní Chasaide, Neasa Ní Chiaráin, Rian Errity, Oskar Mroz, Ornait Ní hAonghusa, Sibéal Ní Chasaide, Anna Giovannini, Emily Barnes