Publications
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Teaching To The Test? A Comparison Of Two High Schools’ Responses To Mandated Testing
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SRI’s 2004 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation System
This paper describes our recent efforts in exploring longer-range features and their statistical modeling techniques for speaker recognition. In particular, we describe a system that uses discriminant features from cepstral…
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Participatory, Example-Based Data Modeling In Padi (Padi Technical Report 4)
We describe a Web-based tool for modeling that creates and manipulates a simple data model without representing it in UML, while promoting collaboration and the use of examples to compare…
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Ontology-based discourse understanding for a persistent meeting assistant
In this paper, we present research toward ontology-based understanding of discourse in meetings and describe an ontology of multimodal discourse designed for this purpose.
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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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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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The complete genome sequence of Francisella tularensis, the causative agent of tularemia
We report the complete genome sequence of a highly virulent isolate of F. tularensis. The sequence uncovers previously uncharacterized genes encoding type IV pili, a surface polysaccharide and iron-acquisition systems.
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A Collaborative Framework for Managing Uncertainty and Cognitive Bias
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Foundations And Opportunities For An Interdisciplinary Science Of Learning
In this chapter, we argue that the learning sciences are poised for a “decade of synergy.” We focus on several key traditions of theory and research with the potential for…