Publications
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Evaluation Of Bias Correction Methods For ‘Worst-Case’ Selective Non-Participation In NAEP
Although NAEP has not been given an official confirmatory role under NCLB, one can expect greater scrutiny of the relationship between state scores and state NAEP scores in the coming…
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TRAPping Conversational Speech: Extending TRAP/Tandem Approaches to Conversational Telephone Speech Recognition
In this paper we report experiments with a reduced conversational speech task that led to the adoption of a number of engineering decisions for the design of an acoustic front…
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Voicing Feature Integration in SRI’s Decipher LVCSR System
We augment the Mel cepstral (MFCC) feature representation with voicing features from an independent front end.
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Assigning Adaptive NAEP Booklets Based On State Assessment Scores: A Simulation Study Of The Impact On Standard Errors
This simulation assessed the improvements that could be expected if students were pre-assigned to test booklets that were adapted to their level of performance.
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Application of the Modified Group Delay Function to Speaker Identification and Discrimination
In this paper, we explore new methods by which speakers can be identified and discriminated, using features derived from the fourier transform phase. A Gaussian mixture model (GMM) based speaker…
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A Closer Look At The Digital Divide: Computer Access And Use For Disadvantaged Students
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The Roles Of Regional Partners In Supporting An International Science Inquiry Program
This paper explores the roles that regional partners play in helping to support implementation within the GLOBE program, an international earth science and education program.
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Scaling Up Restructuring Knowing: From Design Experiments To Experimental Design
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The ICSI Meeting Recorder Dialog Act (MRDA) Corpus
We provide a brief summary of the annotation system and labeling procedure, inter-annotator reliability statistics, overall distributional statistics, a description of auxiliary files distributed with the corpus, and information on…
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Improving Automatic Sentence Boundary Detection with Confusion Networks
We extend existing methods for automatic sentence boundary detection by leveraging multiple recognizer hypotheses in order to provide robustness to speech recognition errors.
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Report on the 2004 DARPA Workshop on Self-Aware Computer Systems
This report captures some of the salient points discussed during the DARPA workshop on Self-Aware Computer Systems held on April 27-28, 2004 in Washington D.C.
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First Experiences with Early Intervention: A National Perspective
This study was designed to determine families’ initial experiences in determining their child’s eligibility, interactions with medical professionals, effort required to obtain services, participation in planning for services, satisfaction with…