Project LISTEN's Reading Tutor - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University
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Project LISTEN’s Reading Tutor
Project Head: Jack Mostow
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Project LISTEN, one of National Science Foundation’s “Nifty Fifty” research projects, is developing an automated Reading Tutor that helps children learn to read. It uses speech recognition to listen to them read aloud, and responds with spoken and graphical feedback. Automated field studies evaluate the efficacy of alternative tutorial interventions by embedding experiments within the Reading Tutor, which is now used by hundreds of children at several elementary schools. See www.projectlisten.org.

Displaying 72 Publications

2013
Lessons from Project LISTEN: What Have We Learned from a Reading Tutor That Listens?
Jack Mostow
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED '13), pp. 557 - 558, July, 2013
2012
Why and how our automated reading tutor listens
Jack Mostow
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Symposium on Automatic Detection of Errors in Pronunciation Training (ISADEPT '12), pp. 43 - 52, June, 2012
Mining Data from Project LISTEN’s Reading Tutor to Analyze Development of Children's Oral Reading Prosody
Sunayana Sitaram and Jack Mostow
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 25th International FLAIRS Conference, May, 2012
2011
Two methods for assessing oral reading prosody
Minh Duong, Jack Mostow, and Sunayana Sitaram
Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing (TSLP), Vol. 7, No. 4, August, 2011
2010
Exploiting Predictable Response Training to Improve Automatic Recognition of Children’s Spoken Responses
Wei Chen and Jack Mostow
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS '10), pp. 65 - 74, June, 2010
2009
Detecting prosody improvement in oral rereading
Minh Duong and Jack Mostow
Workshop Paper, ISCA International Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE '09), pp. 105 - 108, September, 2009
2008
A case study empirical comparison of three methods to evaluate tutorial behaviors
Xiaonan Zhang, Jack Mostow, and Joseph E. Beck
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS '08), pp. 122 - 131, June, 2008
2007
Experience from a Reading Tutor that listens: Evaluation purposes, excuses, and methods
Jack Mostow
Book Section/Chapter, Interactive Literacy Education: Facilitating Literacy Environments Through Technology, pp. 117 - 148, August, 2007
All in the (word) family: Using learning decomposition to estimate transfer between skills in a Reading Tutor that listens
Xiaonan Zhang, Jack Mostow, and J. E. Beck
Workshop Paper, AIED '07 Educational Data Mining Workshop, pp. 80 - 87, July, 2007
Can a Computer Listen for Fluctuations in Reading Comprehension?
Xiaonan Zhang, Jack Mostow, and Joseph E. Beck
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED '07), pp. 495 - 502, June, 2007

current head

Portrait of Jack Mostow
Jack Mostow

current staff

Portrait of Rachel Kirby
Rachel Kirby
Portrait of DeWitt Talmadge Latimer
DeWitt Talmadge Latimer
Portrait of Jeff Schneider
Jeff Schneider

past staff

  • Kristen M Bagwell
  • Joseph E Beck
  • Juliet Bey
  • Paul Burkhead
  • Fiona Callaghan
  • Kai-Min Kevin Chang
  • Albert Corbett
  • Andrew Cuneo
  • Nell K Duke
  • Donna M Gates
  • Cecily Heiner
  • John D Helman
  • Tzee-Ming Huang
  • Cathy Huang
  • Kerry Ishizaki
  • Octavio H Juarez-Espinosa
  • Brian Junker
  • Martin J Kantorzyk
  • Rebecca Kennedy
  • John Kominek
  • Hua Lan
  • Sharon Pegher
  • Amy Quinn
  • Morten Rasmussen
  • Susan M Rossbach
  • Mary Beth Sklar
  • Julie Ann Sleasman
  • C. Roy Taylor
  • Brian Tobin
  • Christina L Trotochaud
  • Joseph Valeri
  • Anders Weinstein
  • Calvin Yeung