A Dataset for Measuring Reading Levels In India At Scale

• Published in: Proceedings of the ... IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (1998) pp. 9210 - 9214
• Main Authors: Agarwal, Dolly, Gupchup, Jayant, Baghel, Nishant
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.05.2020
• Subjects: Acoustics; Assessment; Conferences; Deep learning; EdTech; Machine Learning; Random forests; Reading Skills; Signal processing; Speech Dataset; Speech processing; Task analysis

One out of four children in India are leaving grade eight without basic reading skills. Measuring the reading levels in a vast country like India poses significant hurdles. Recent advances in machine learning opens up the possibility of automating this task. However, the datasets of children's...