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If I Have a Hammer: Computational Linguistics in a Reading Tutor that Listens
J. Mostow
42nd Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL-EACL 2004), July, 2004.

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Project LISTEN?s Reading Tutor uses speech recognition to listen to children read aloud, and helps them learn to read, as evidenced by rigorous evaluations of pre- to posttest gains compared to various controls. In the 2003-2004 school year, children ages 5-14 used the Reading Tutor daily at school on over 200 computers, logging over 50,000 sessions, 1.5 million tutorial responses, and 10 million words.

This talk uses the Reading Tutor to illustrate the diverse roles that computational linguistics can play in an intelligent tutor:

• A domain model describes a skill to learn, such as mapping from spelling to pronunciation.
• A production model predicts student behavior, such as likely oral reading mistakes.
• A language model predicts likely word sequences for a given task, such as oral reading.
• A student model estimates a student?s skills, such as mastery of grapheme-to-phoneme mappings.
• A pedagogical model guides tutorial decisions, such as choosing words a student is ready to try.

Associated lab/group: Project LISTEN
Associated project: Project LISTEN's Reading Tutor

Note: Invited keynote address

J. Mostow, "If I Have a Hammer: Computational Linguistics in a Reading Tutor that Listens," 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL-EACL 2004), July, 2004.

@inproceedings{Mostow_2004_4996,
   author = "Jack Mostow",
   title = "If I Have a Hammer: Computational Linguistics in a Reading Tutor that Listens",
   booktitle = "42nd Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL-EACL 2004)",
   month = "July",
   year = "2004",
   note = "Invited keynote address"
}