Brody Downs
Boise State University
6 Papers
13 Citations
Brody Downs is an academic researcher from Boise State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Spelling & Computer science. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 6 publications.
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Papers
•Proceedings Article
KidSpell: A Child-Oriented, Rule-Based, Phonetic Spellchecker
Brody Downs,Oghenemaro Anuyah,Aprajita Shukla,Jerry Alan Fails,Maria Soledad Pera,Katherine Landau Wright,Casey Kennington +6 more
- 01 May 2020
TL;DR: The results of these experiments show that KidSpell outperforms existing spellcheckers, as it accurately prioritizes relevant spelling corrections when handling misspellings generated by children in both essay writing and online search tasks.
Guiding the selection of child spellchecker suggestions using audio and visual cues
Brody Downs,Aprajita Shukla,Mikey Krentz,Maria Soledad Pera,Katherine Landau Wright,Casey Kennington,Jerry Alan Fails +6 more
- 21 Jun 2020
TL;DR: The results from the study reveal that multimodal cues, primarily synthesized speech, have a positive impact on the children's ability to identify their intended word from a list of spelling suggestions.
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KidSpell: Making a difference in spellchecking for children
TL;DR: A phonetic-based spelling correction model (KidSpell) is proposed that can more accurately correction children’s spelling errors than existing state-of-the-art models and it is learned that visual and audio cues have a positive impact on children”s ability to find their intended word from a list of spelling suggestions.
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Searching for spellcheckers: What kids want, what kids need
Brody Downs,Tyler French,Katherine Landau Wright,Maria Soledad Pera,Casey Kennington,Jerry Alan Fails +5 more
- 12 Jun 2019
TL;DR: It is hypothesize that existing spellcheckers are not suitable for young users who frequently encounter spelling challenges when searching for information online and presents early results of ongoing research focused on identifying the needs and expectations children have regarding spellchecker.
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BiGBERT: Classifying Educational Web Resources for Kindergarten-12\(^{th}\) Grades
Garrett Allen,Brody Downs,Aprajita Shukla,Casey Kennington,Jerry Alan Fails,Katherine Landau Wright,Maria Soledad Pera +6 more
- 28 Mar 2021
TL;DR: In this article, a deep learning model that simultaneously examines URLs and snippets from web resources to determine their alignment with children's educational standards is presented. But this model is limited to web resources.
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