Spartan Daily, January 30, 1997

Volume 108, Issue 5https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/9082/thumbnail.jp

Computer analysis of children's non-native English speech for language learning and assessment

Children's ASR appears to be more challenging than adults' and it's even more difficult when it comes to non-native children's speech. This research investigates different techniques to compensate for the effects of non-native and children on the performance of ASR systems. The study mainly utilises hybrid DNN-HMM systems with conventional DNNs, LSTMs and more advanced TDNN models. This work uses the CALL-ST corpus and TLT-school corpus to study children's non-native English speech. Initially, data augmentation was explored on the CALL-ST corpus to address the lack of data problem using the AMI corpus and PF-STAR German corpus. Feature selection, acoustic model adaptation and selection were also investigated on CALL-ST. More aspects of the ASR system, including pronunciation modelling, acoustic modelling, language modelling and system fusion, were explored on the TLT-school corpus as this corpus has a bigger amount of data. Then, the relationships between the CALL-ST and TLT-school corpora were studied and utilised to improve ASR performance. The other part of the present work is text processing for non-native children's English speech. We focused on providing accept/reject feedback to learners based on the text generated by the ASR system from learners' spoken responses. A rule-based and a machine learning-based system were proposed for making the judgement, several aspects of the systems were evaluated. The influence of the ASR system on the text processing system was explored

Spartan Daily, February 27, 1976

Volume 66, Issue 18https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/6049/thumbnail.jp

Inter-organizational Collaboration: A Strategy to Improve Diversity and College Access for Underrepresented Minority Students

This efforts of the Center for Research on Educational Equity, Access, and Teaching Excellence (CREATE) at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to improve the opportunity that low income students of color to attend colleges and universities by assisting public schools in the San Diego California adapt the principles developed at the highly successful Preuss School on the UCSD campus to their local circumstances are treated as an example of organizational learning. CREATE, operating as an “educational field station,” serves as a mediator between the Preuss School and local schools that have expressed an interest in building a college-going culture of learning in order to improve the education of underrepresented minority students

Spartan Daily, May 10, 1994

Volume 102, Issue 65https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/8565/thumbnail.jp

Power inequity and the repatriation right in the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act

2014 Summer.The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 sought to empower Native communities to reattain their ancestral human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony. Issues both in theory and in practice have arisen in regard to the law and have made implementation difficult and controversial. This paper seeks to analyze the power provided by the legislation and how it applied in the practice of compliance. This power dynamic is then reconciled within the repatriation ethic of the United States as well as internationally. As the scope broadens, an international repatriation ethic emerges that establishes repatriation of culturally affiliatable human remains and sacred objects as a basic human right for indigenous peoples

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