Publications
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Speaker Recognition with Session Variability Normalization Based on MLLR Adaptation Transforms
We present a new modeling approach for speaker recognition that uses the maximum-likelihood linear regression (MLLR) adaptation transforms employed by a speech recognition system as features for support vector machine…
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An Unfinished Canvas: Arts Education in California: Taking Stock of Policies and Practices – Full Report
This study has sought to take stock of California's arts education policies and practices: understanding where schools’ arts programs are relative to state goals, assessing the strengths and weaknesses of…
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An Unfinished Canvas: Arts Education in California: Taking Stock of Policies and Practices – Summary Report
This first-ever comprehensive study of the state of arts education in California has sought to fill the current information gap by taking stock of arts education policies and practices.
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Medical Device Applications of Dielectric Elastomer- Based Artificial Muscles for Mpmd 2007, Palm Desert, California
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Detecting and Summarizing Action Items in Multi-Party Dialogue
This paper addresses the problem of identifying action items discussed in open-domain conversational speech, and does so in two stages: firstly, detecting the subdialogues in which action items are proposed,…
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Resolving ”You” in Multi-Party Dialog
This paper presents experiments into the resolution of “you” in multi-party dialog, dividing this process into two tasks: distinguishing between generic and referential uses; and then, for referential uses, identifying…
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An Unfinished Canvas – Arts Education in the San Francisco Bay Area: A Supplementary Status Report
The research supporting An Unfinished Canvas was undertaken to document the status of arts education in California schools and assess the extent to which schools were meeting state goals for…
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Textual inference logic: take two
This note describes a logical system based on concepts and contexts, whose aim is to serve as a representation language for meanings of natural language sentences.
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Assimilating IT in the workplace: a study of situated learning
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Build IT: Girls Developing Information Technology Fluency Through Design. Annual Report Year 2
BuildIT is an after school and summer youth-based curriculum for low income middle school girls to develop IT fluency, interest in mathematics, and knowledge of IT careers.
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A Semi-Supervised Learning Approach for Morpheme Segmentation for an Arabic Dialect
We evaluate our approach by applying morpheme segmentation to the training data of a statistical machine translation (SMT) system. Experiments show that our approach is less sensitive to the availability…
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IraqComm: A Next Generation Translation System
This paper describes the IraqComm translation system that mediates and translates spontaneous conversations between an English speaker and a speaker of colloquial Iraqi Arabic.