Automated Scoring of Picture-based Story Narration

Swapna Somasundaran, Chongmin Lee, Martin S. Chodorow, Xinhao Wang · 2015

This work investigates linguistically motivated features for automatically scoring a spoken picture-based narration task.Specifically, we build scoring models with features for story development, language use and task relevance of the response.Results show that combinations of these features outperform a baseline system that uses state of the art speechbased features, and that best results are obtained by combining the linguistic and speech features.

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