Research Article

[Retracted] Automatic English Pronunciation Evaluation Algorithm Based on Sequence Matching and Feature Fusion

Table 2

Correlation coefficients between all features and expert ratings.

Characteristics of theCorrelation coefficientwith expert rating

Cosine similarity based on word frequency0.753
Jaccard similarity0.739
Dice coefficient0.767
Manhattan similarity0.762
Keyword coverage based on edit distance0.646
The entire syntax tree is scoredāˆ’0.304
Syntactic tree score by sentence normalizationāˆ’0.381
Syntactic tree score normalized by word0.051
Normalized syntax tree depth0.386
The depth of the syntax tree0.305
Sentence confidence score0.631
The number of words per unit time0.52