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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Automatic Assessment"”.
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Automatic Assessment of L2 Spoken English
… This has contributed to an increasing demand for automatic spoken language assessment systems for formal settings and practice situations in Computer-Assisted Language Learning. One common misunderstanding about automated assessment is the assumption that machines should replicate the human …
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Deep Learning for Automatic Assessment and Feedback of Spoken English
… English, has led to considerable interest in automatic spoken language assessment, whether for use in computerassisted language learning (CALL) tools or for grading candidates for formal qualifications. This thesis presents research conducted into the automatic assessment of spontaneous …
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Automatic assessment of voice similarity and its implications for forensic applications
… recognition, or voice parades and earwitness assessments. In the past decade, the collection of speech has become much easier, offering the opportunity to assess the suitability of large quantities of speakers for such purposes. However, manual assessment of voices by a forensic phonetician or …
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The Automatic Assessment of Multiple Artefacts: An Investigation into Design Diagrams and Their Implementations
… the growth in electronic support for learning. E-assessment has been a part of this growth as increasingly assessment and its feedback is seen as an integral part of the students’ learning process. Mature e-assessment systems exist, particularly where answers to questions are restricted to a …
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Automatic assessment and feature-based characterisation of oral narratives for Afrikaans and isiXhosa children
… an urgent need for early intervention. Accurate assessment is essential for identifying children who need support, but current methods rely on human judgement, which is resource-intensive and susceptible to inconsistencies. To address this, we design an automatic scoring system for low-income …
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Automatic assessment of biological control effectiveness of the egg parasitoid Trichogramma bourarachar against Cadra cautella using machine vision
… primary objective of this research is to achieve automatic evaluation of the efficiency of using Trichogramma bourarachae for biological control of Cadra (=Ephestia) cautella by calculating the rate of parasitization. Cadra cautella is a moth feeding as a larva on dried fruit as well as stored …
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Automated Environment Diagram Assessment for Introductory CS Education
… diagrams with a drag-and-drop and submit for automatic assessment. Students instantly receive hints to help them correct misunderstandings, allowing even large courses to give individualized feedback. Instructors can easily create questions by providing code that is interpreted into a solution …
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Human Activity Recognition using Hearing Aids
… for step counting, functional mobility assessment, and human activity recognition (HAR) under free living conditions. The use of ear-worn sensors for pedometry was validated using commercial hearing aids with integrated accelerometers. Algorithms for the automatic assessment of timed up …
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Using Daily Missions to Promote Incremental Progress on Programming Assignments
Automatic assessment tools are increasingly utilized in undergraduate programming courses to evaluate software solutions, streamlining the grading process for both students and professors. In spite of their benefits of speed and convenience, such online systems for providing instant feedback have …
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Decision Support of Security Assessment of Software Vulnerabilities in Industrial Practice
… we are aiming to facilitate the security assessment process in an industrial context. We start from the level of the own code of an individual software project, for which we propose a differential benchmarking approach for automatic assessment of static analysis security testing tools. We …
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Language technologies in speech-enabled second language learning games : from reading to dialogue
… and flexibility, where dynamic content creation, automatic assessment, and automatic assistance are emphasized. The four games, reading, translation, question-answering and dialogue, offer different activities with gradually increasing difficulty, and involve a wide range of language processing …
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Standardisation and quality assurance of 2D ultrasound Shear Wave Elastography imaging in breast tissue
… into account, algorithms were devised to enable automatic assessment of B-mode and SWE images.<br/><br/>In this work, influences from the imaging process and image evaluation on the SWE measurements were demonstrated. The influences investigated included: the impact from the region of interest …
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Estimation problems in speech and natural language
… aim of designing objective methods of fluency assessment from spontaneous speech. We show that articulation rate, phonation-time ratio, mean length of silent pauses and the number of silent pauses per second are aspects of speech production that are well correlated with human assigned scores of …
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Uncertainty Estimation in Deep Learning with application to Spoken Language Assessment
… as in autonomous vehicle control, high-stakes automatic proficiency assessment and in the medical, financial and legal fields. In the first part of this thesis uncertainty estimation via ensemble and single-model approaches is discussed in detail and a new class of models for uncertainty …
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Domain oriented object reuse based on genetic software architectures.
… their reusability. The tools are also used for automatic assessment of the domain architecture and the design conceptions of its schemas. Furthermore, when a new system is synthesised, components are retrieved, with the assistance of the tools, according to the scope of reuse within which the …
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Fracture process zone : microstructure and nanomechanics in quasi-brittle materials
… and FPZ regions of quasi-brittle material, the assessment of the fundamental properties (microstructure, small-scale mechanical properties) of intact and FPZ quasi-brittle material, and a conceptual model of FPZ development in quasi-brittle material. In pursuit of these objectives, the study …
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Building and Evaluating a Learning Environment for Data Structures and Algorithms Courses
… with teaching of programming, including automatic assessment of programming exercises. However, when it comes to teaching computer science content and concepts, learning technologies have not been heavily used. Perhaps the best known application today is Algorithm Visualization (AV), of …
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Deep learning applied to the assessment of online student programming exercises
… Provision of qualitative evaluation at scale, automatically, is the subject of much research effort. In this thesis, deep learning is applied to the task of performing automatic assessment of source code, with a focus on provision of qualitative feedback. Four tasks: language modeling, …
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Evaluating the Integration of Online, Interactive Tutorials into a Data Structures and Algorithms Course
… and providing immediate feedback and incremental assessment. In this thesis, I first describe aspects of the OpenDSA architecture relevant to collecting user interaction data. I then present an analysis of the interaction log data gathered from three classes during Spring 2013. The analysis …
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