Publications
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The Role Of Research On Contexts Of Teaching Practice In Informing The Design Of Handheld Learning Technologies
In this article, we describe the realities we found and the implications we drew from them for our project, which we argue have broad import for the design of handheld…
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Designing Handheld Software To Support Classroom Assessment
Since 2002, Project WHIRL (Wireless Handhelds In Reflection on Learning) has investigated potential uses of handheld computers in K-12 science classrooms using a teacher involved process of software development and…
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Toward Unsupervised Whole-Corpus Tagging
We present a system for unsupervised tagging of words into classes produced by a distributional clustering technique called co-clustering.
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Six Years Of Knowledge Networking In Learning Sciences And Technologies
For learning and education to take full advantage of new and evolving information technologies and to contribute to the evolution of those same technologies, there is a fundamental need to…
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Balancing Formal and Practical Concerns in Agent Design
In this paper, we discuss a number of both formal and practical requirements that must be met to satisfy the demands of large-scale applications. We also briefly describe work on…
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Using Functional and Organizational Information to Improve Genome-Wide Computational Prediction of Transcription Units on Pathway/Genome Databases
We implemented a TU predictor that uses only intergenic distance and functional classification of genes to predict TU boundaries, and applied it to EcoCyc, our PGDB of Escherichia coli.
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A Fine-Grained Evaluation Method for Speech-to-Speech Machine Translation Using Concept Annotations
This paper describes the development of a concept annotation method for evaluating a narrow domain speech-to-speech translation system and discusses how the scores produced by that method relate to naïve…
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Globe Year 8 Evaluation: Adapting Implementation to Diverse Contexts
We studied two aspects of adaptation of GLOBE this year (2002-03). We examined how partners have adapted training and follow-up support to meet teacher needs and analyzed GLOBE implementation in…
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Speaker Recognition using Prosodic and Lexical Features
We investigate the contribution of modeling prosodic and lexical patterns, on performance in the NIST 2003 Speaker Recognition Evaluation extended data task.
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National Early Intervention Longitudinal Study: Demographic Characteristics of Children and Families Entering Early Intervention. NEILS Data Report No. 3
The National Early Intervention Longitudinal Study (NEILS) is being conducted to address some of the most important questions related to the implementation and outcomes of Part C of the Individuals…
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The Relationship Between Dialogue Acts and Hot Spots in Meetings
We examine the relationship between hot spots and dialogue acts in roughly 32 hours of speech data from naturally-occurring meetings. Results reveal that four independently-motivated involvement categories (non-involved, disagreeing, amused,…
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UpLib: a universal personal digital library system
We describe the design and use of a personal digital library system, UpLib.