Publications
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Joint Segmentation and Classification of Dialog Acts in Multiparty Meetings
This paper investigates a scheme for joint segmentation and classification of dialog acts (DAs) of the ICSI Meeting Corpus based on hidden-event language models and a maximum entropy classifier for…
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Deductive Discovery and Composition of Resources
We consider the problem of answering a query, where the answer is not provided explicitly by any one resource, but has to be deduced from information provided by many resources;…
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Deploying a Personalized Time Management Agent
We report on our ongoing practical experience in designing, implementing, and deploying PTIME, a personalized agent for time management and meeting scheduling in an open, multi-agent environment. In developing PTIME…
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Early College High School Initiative: 2003-2005 Evaluation Report
This report is the second annual synthesis report on the national evaluation of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ’s Early College High School Initiative (ECHSI). The foundation established the…
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Report On Technical Quality Of 6th And 8th Grade Student Assessments For The Tides Project
This report describes activities undertaken to create, pilot, and analyze technical quality of student assessments in sixth and eighth grades for the Transforming Instruction by Design in Earth Science (TIDES)…
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Build It: Girls Building Information Technology Fluency Through Design
The Computer Science education and practice community has made clear the need to increase the size and diversity of US-trained computer science professionals.
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Mathematizing Middle School: Results From A Cross-Disciplinary Study Of Data Literacy
In this paper we discuss a pilot study in which we investigate bridging the disciplines of social studies and mathematics to help students learn important aspects of data literacy. We…
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Measuring Middle School Teachers’ Mathematical Knowledge Of Teaching Rate And Proportionality
We are investigating if teachers from across the state of Texas can use a specially designed replacement unit and SimCalc software to help their students learn mathematics important to the…
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The Many Challenges Of Designing And Teaching Nanoscience
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Reverse Engineering the NAEP Floating Pencil Task Using the PADI Design System (PADI Technical Report 16)
This report will discuss the reverse engineering of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Floating Pencil task. The PADI design system was used as an analytical tool for understanding…
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Review Of Evaluation Findings For The Intel Learn Program
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Teaching Nanoscience To High School Students: A Tale Of The Nanosense Project