Publications
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Think Globally, Act Locally: An Analysis Of Community Participation Discourse In Education For All National Action Plans
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The Independent Evaluation of the Science Teachers Initiative (CASCITI): Year 1 Report
This evaluation describes the CSP’s work since from 2001-02 to 2003-04 and assesses whether it met its goals under CASCITI. This chapter first outlines the CSP’s background to enable the…
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Automatic Dialog Act Segmentation and Classification in Multiparty Meetings
We explore the two related tasks of dialog act (DA) segmentation and DA classification for speech from the ICSI Meeting Corpus. We employ simple lexical and prosodic knowledge sources, and…
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Fostering Collaboration with a Semantic Index over Textual Contributions
We are exploring new approaches to facilitating effective collaboration that remove or reduce common barriers and that exploit opportunities to encourage more effective collaboration, including transcending the cognitive biases of…
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A Personalized Time Management Assistant
This paper presents ongoing work to build the Personalized Time Manager (PTIME) system, a persistent assistant that builds on our previous work on a personalized calendar agent.
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Improved Phonetic Speaker Recognition Using Lattice Decoding
In this paper, we present results on the Switchboard-2 corpus, where we compare 1-best phone decodings versus lattice phone decodings for the purposes of performing phonetic speaker recognition.
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Structural Metadata Research in the EARS Program
In this paper we provide a brief overview of research on structural metadata extraction in the DARPA EARS rich transcription program. Tasks include detection of sentence boundaries, filler words, and…
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Reference-Free Objective Quality Metrics for MPEG-Coded Video
In this paper, we propose a reference-free video quality metric for MPEG coded videos. It predicts subjective quality ratings using both reference-free MPEG artifact measures and MPEG system parameters (known…
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Teaching To The Test? A Comparison Of Two High Schools’ Responses To Mandated Testing
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An Introduction to Padi Task Templates (Padi Technical Report 3)
Principled Assessment Designs for Inquiry (PADI) is a project supported by the National Science Foundation to improve the assessment of inquiry in science learning.
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Style consistent classification of isogenous patterns
In many applications of pattern recognition, patterns appear together in groups (fields) that have a common origin.
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Evaluation Of The Intel Learn Program: Study Of A Design For The Scalability Of Digital Inclusion Programming