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Spoken Grammar Assessment Using LLM

Computation and Language 2024-10-03 v1 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

Spoken language assessment (SLA) systems restrict themselves to evaluating the pronunciation and oral fluency of a speaker by analysing the read and spontaneous spoken utterances respectively. The assessment of language grammar or vocabulary is relegated to written language assessment (WLA) systems. Most WLA systems present a set of sentences from a curated finite-size database of sentences thereby making it possible to anticipate the test questions and train oneself. In this paper, we propose a novel end-to-end SLA system to assess language grammar from spoken utterances thus making WLA systems redundant; additionally, we make the assessment largely unteachable by employing a large language model (LLM) to bring in variations in the test. We further demonstrate that a hybrid automatic speech recognition (ASR) with a custom-built language model outperforms the state-of-the-art ASR engine for spoken grammar assessment.

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@article{arxiv.2410.01579,
  title  = {Spoken Grammar Assessment Using LLM},
  author = {Sunil Kumar Kopparapu and Chitralekha Bhat and Ashish Panda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.01579},
  year   = {2024}
}

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5 pages, 2 figures

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