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Proença, J., Celorico, D., Dias, J., Tjalve, M., Stolcke, A., Sara Candeias...Lopes, C. (2016). Design and analysis of a database to evaluate children’s reading aloud performance. In João Silva, Ricardo Ribeiro, Paulo Quaresma, André Adami, António Branco (Ed.), Computational processing of the Portuguese language: 12th International Conference, PROPOR 2016. (pp. 385-395). Springer International Publishing Switzerland: Springer.

J. Proença et al.,  "Design and analysis of a database to evaluate children’s reading aloud performance", in Computational processing of the Portuguese language: 12th Int. Conf., PROPOR 2016, João Silva, Ricardo Ribeiro, Paulo Quaresma, André Adami, António Branco, Ed., Springer International Publishing Switzerland, Springer, 2016, vol. 9727, pp. 385-395

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AB  - To evaluate the reading performance of children, human assessment is usually involved, where a teacher or tutor has to take time to individually estimate the performance in terms of fluency (speed, accuracy and expression). Automatic estimation of reading ability can be an important alternative or complement to the usual methods, and can improve other applications such as e-learning. Techniques must be developed to analyse audio recordings of read utterances by children and detect the deviations from the intended correct reading i.e. disfluencies. For that goal, a database of 284 European Portuguese children from 6 to 10 years old (1st–4th grades) reading aloud amounting to 20 h was collected in private and public Portuguese schools. This paper describes the design of the reading tasks as well as the data collection procedure. The presence of different types of disfluencies is analysed as well as reading performance compared to known curricular goals. 
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