Peiyun Liu

NN-based Ordinal Regression for Assessing Fluency of ESL Speech

Automatic assessment of a language learner's speech fluency is highly desirable for language education, e.g. for English as a Second Language (ESL) learning. In this paper, we formulate the fluency assessment as a problem of Ordinal Regression with Anchored Reference Samples (ORARS), where the fluen…