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ISCA International Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE 2011)Venice, Italy |
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ISCA International Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE 2011)Venice, Italy |
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We discuss classroom experiments using WordsEye, a system
for automatically generating 3D scenes from English textual
descriptions. Input is syntactically and semantically processed
to identify a set of graphical objects and constraints which are
then rendered as a 3D scene. We describe experiments with
the system in a summer literacy enrichment program
conducted at the Harlem Educational Activities Fund with 6th
grade students, in which students using the system had
significantly greater improvement in their literary character
and story descriptions in pre- and post- test essays compared
with a control. Students reported that using the system helped
them imagine the events in the stories they were reading
better. We also observed that social interaction engendered by
this process was a strong motivator.
Index Terms. text-to-scene generation
Bibliographic reference. Coyne, Bob / Schudel, Cecilia / Bitz, Michael / Hirschberg, Julia (2011): "Evaluating a text-to-scene generation system as an aid to literacy", In SLaTE-2011, 13-16.