Publications
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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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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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Medical Device Applications of Dielectric Elastomer- Based Artificial Muscles for Mpmd 2007, Palm Desert, California
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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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Advances in Mandarin Broadcast Speech Recognition
We describe our continuing efforts to improve the UW-SRI-ICSI Mandarin broadcast speech recognizer.
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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.
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Detecting Deception Using Critical Segments
We present an investigation of segments that map to GLOBAL LIES, that is, the intent to deceive with respect to salient topics of the discourse. We propose that identifying the…
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Duration and Pronunciation Conditioned Lexical Modeling for Speaker Verification
We propose a method to improve speaker recognition lexical model performance using acoustic-prosodic information. More specifically, the lexical model is trained using duration- and pronunciation-conditioned word N-grams, simultaneously modeling lexical…
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fMPE-MAP: Improved Discriminative Adaptation for Modeling New Domains
This paper introduces a new adaptation approach, fMPE-MAP, which is an extension to the original fMPE (feature minimum phone error) algorithm, with the enhanced ability in porting Gaussian models and…