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ENGLISH LANGUAGE ITUTORING

Harnessing the power of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to help
learners and teachers of English everywhere.


WHO WE ARE

English Language iTutoring (ELiT) is a tech-transfer company founded in 2014 as
a joint venture with Cambridge University Press and Cambridge Assessment. In
2019, it was acquired by Cambridge University Press and Assessment (CUP&A). 

As part of the CUP&A family, ELiT operationalises Machine Learning (AI) research
from the Cambridge University Institute for Automated Language Teaching and
Assessment (ALTA(link is external)) to provide automated assessment capabilities
(automarking and automated feedback) for extended English learner text and
speech.  ALTA is a virtual institute which investigates new ways of using
technology to enhance language learning and to develop cutting-edge approaches
to assessment and feedback which will benefit English learners and teachers
worldwide. These capabilities can be accessed through ELiT's APIs by CUP&A’s
learning and assessment products.

ELiT is a remote, agile team consisting of 11 software engineers and an
engineering manager, a senior data scientist, a product owner, a technical
architect, and a data annotation and EFL product specialist. We build and
maintain ground-breaking English Language Learning applications that are used by
hundreds of thousands of learners and teachers worldwide, and our automated
language assessment technology delivers exam results to candidates without
delay. Our innovative annotation tool is used to enrich learner data and improve
the performance of our machine learning pipeline and our products. 
 


OUR MISSION

ELIT'S MISSION IS:

 * to operate secure, efficient and highly scalable services enabling automated
   feedback and assessment for Cambridge's English language learning and
   assessment products
 * to collect and enrich, through annotation, large amounts of diverse data from
   English language learners and teachers to support cutting-edge research at
   Cambridge University into the use of ethical AI to support English language
   learning and teaching, fuelling a continuous cycle of improvement in existing
   and future products and APIs 
 * to continue and build on our early ground-breaking AI productisation to
   support CUP&A as a leader in the field.


OUR PRODUCTS AND SERVICES


TEXT AND SPEECH AUTO-MARKING APIS

Our Text and Speech APIs are core to what we do. They provide automatic
assessment capabilities to the products we build and to those within the wider
CUP&A organisation. They enable API clients to submit extended text and speech
for automatic assessment by a range of machine learning models and to receive
the results. They are designed to be resilient and to scale automatically in
response to demand, so that assessment results are returned in a timely manner.


THE &IMPROVES

We believe that the best way to improve at any skill is through practice and
timely, actionable feedback. We develop and operate three Integrated Learning
and Assessment products for English language learners – Write & Improve(link is
external), Speak & Improve(link is external) and Read & Improve, all at
different stages of maturity and under constant development. These offer
learners intensive, single-skill practice with automatic assessment and feedback
designed to encourage them to learn from their mistakes and try again. 

Write & Improve also offers two premium products:

 * +Test Zone(link is external) for learner exam practice (B2 First and IELTS)
 * +Class View(link is external) for teachers to set, mark and manage students’
   writing practice.

Through these products, ELiT gathers diverse, up-to-the-minute data and
insights, which help to support further learning and assessment research by ALTA
and other research partners. This creates a continuous cycle of learning and
improvement which is passed back into these and other CUP&A learning tools. 


DATA ANNOTATION

Continuing CUP&A's long-standing commitment to data-led learning and assessment,
ELiT provides CUP&A and ALTA with innovative, bespoke data-annotation services
through a team of specially trained EFL teachers and examiners, teacher
trainers, linguists and lexicographers. Using our unique spoken- and
written-language annotation tool, Manatee, we ensure that the human is always in
the loop when operationalising AI solutions for automated assessment and
feedback for English learners. 

Manatee is used for written error annotation, automarker assessment and
validation, analytic scoring of speech, Automatic Speech Recognition training on
errorful learner speech, and for multiple projects to advance annotation
capabilities aimed at developing pedagogically sound, actionable feedback for
learners on their extended speech and writing. The tool is designed to be
flexible and scalable, growing with the needs of the organisation.


CUP&A NON-COMMERCIAL RESEARCH DATASETS


PUBLIC RESEARCH DATASET POLICY


ELiT, as part of Cambridge University Press & Assessment (CUP&A), is committed
to contributing to society through the pursuit of education, learning and
research at the highest international levels of excellence.  CUP&A funds and
supports research undertaken by the Cambridge University Institute for Automated
Language Teaching & Assessment (ALTA), utilising the expertise of both the
Computer Science & Technology Department and the Engineering Department to
investigate innovative ways of using technology to enhance English language
education. We believe that by making data publicly available for academic
research, we will encourage further research based on these datasets.


RELEASED DATASETS

 * The Speak & Improve Corpus 2025
 * The Write & Improve Corpus 2024
 * The Cambridge Multiple-Choice Questions Reading Dataset

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