@inproceedings{olstad-etal-2024-collecting,
    title = "Collecting Linguistic Resources for Assessing Children{'}s Pronunciation of {N}ordic Languages",
    author = {Olstad, Anne Marte Haug  and
      Smolander, Anna  and
      Str{\"o}mbergsson, Sofia  and
      Ylinen, Sari  and
      Lehtonen, Minna  and
      Kurimo, Mikko  and
      Getman, Yaroslav  and
      Gr{\'o}sz, Tam{\'a}s  and
      Cao, Xinwei  and
      Svendsen, Torbj{\o}rn  and
      Salvi, Giampiero},
    editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta  and
      Kan, Min-Yen  and
      Hoste, Veronique  and
      Lenci, Alessandro  and
      Sakti, Sakriani  and
      Xue, Nianwen",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)",
    month = may,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Torino, Italia",
    publisher = "ELRA and ICCL",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.313",
    pages = "3529--3537",
    abstract = "This paper reports on the experience collecting a number of corpora of Nordic languages spoken by children. The aim of the data collection is providing annotated data to develop and evaluate computer assisted pronunciation assessment systems both for non-native children learning a Nordic language (L2) and for L1 children with speech sound disorder (SSD). The paper presents the challenges encountered recording and annotating data for Finnish, Swedish and Norwegian, as well as the ethical considerations related with making this data publicly available. We hope that sharing this experience will encourage others to collect similar data for other languages. Of the different data collections, we were able to make the Norwegian corpus publicly available in the hope that it will serve as a reference in pronunciation assessment research.",
}

This paper reports on the experience collecting a number of corpora of Nordic languages spoken by children. The aim of the data collection is providing annotated data to develop and evaluate computer assisted pronunciation assessment systems both for non-native children learning a Nordic language (L2) and for L1 children with speech sound disorder (SSD). The paper presents the challenges encountered recording and annotating data for Finnish, Swedish and Norwegian, as well as the ethical considerations related with making this data publicly available. We hope that sharing this experience will encourage others to collect similar data for other languages. Of the different data collections, we were able to make the Norwegian corpus publicly available in the hope that it will serve as a reference in pronunciation assessment research.
Olstad, Anne Marte Haug Smol er, Anna Str{\"o}mbergsson, Sofia Ylinen, Sari Lehtonen, Minna Kurimo, Mikko Getman, Yaroslav Gr{\'o}sz, Tam{\'a}s Cao, Xinwei Svendsen, Torbj{\o}rn Salvi, Giampiero
Collecting Linguistic Resources for Assessing Children's Pronunciation of Nordic Languages