Publications
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Prosodic Knowledge Sources for Automatic Speech Recognition
We investigate three models, each exploiting a different level of prosodic information, in rescoring N-best hypotheses according to how well recognized words correspond to prosodic features of the utterance.
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Novel Approaches to Arabic Speech Recognition: Report from the 2002 Johns Hopkins Summer Workshop
This paper reports on our project at the 2002 Johns Hopkins Summer Workshop, which focused on the recognition of dialectal Arabic.
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Literature Review Of Instructional Sensitivity And Opportunity To Learn Studies
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The Robustness of an Almost-Parsing Language Model Given Errorful Training Data
An almost-parsing language model has been developed that provides a framework for tightly integrating multiple knowledge sources. Lexical features and syntactic constraints are integrated into a uniform linguistic structure (called…
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Training a Prosody-Based Dialog Act Tagger from Unlabeled Data
Here we investigate the use of unlabeled data for training HMM-based dialog act taggers. Three techniques are shown to be effective for bootstrapping a tagger from very small amounts of…
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A Prosody-based Approach to End-of-Utterance Detection That Does Not Require Speech Recognition
In this paper we demonstrate that the improvements due to the prosodic knowledge can be realized largely without alignment information, i.e., without requiring a speech recognizer. A prosodic end-of-utterance detector…
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National Early Intervention Longitudinal Study (NEILS): Early Intervention Service Provider Survey
Survey of early intervention service providers used in the SRI-led National Early Intervention Longitudinal Study (NEILS).
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Charting A Course: Evaluation Design Of The National School District And Network Grants Program
Likely to be one of “the most publicly scrutinized educational initiatives” in recent history, the foundation’s program is providing a catalyst to educators and policy makers to radically reshape secondary…
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High Time For High School Reform: Early Findings From The Evaluation Of The National School District And Network Grants Program
This report is one of a series that will be produced over the 5-year course of the National School District and Network Grants Program evaluation. The evaluation examines the extent…
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Instructional Sensitivity Design
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Mapping The Terrain: Year 1 Of The Evaluation Of The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s National School District And Network Grants Program
The foundation’s grantees are taking a twopronged approach to reform: grantee organizations are supporting the design of new, small high schools and/or the conversion of large high schools into smaller…
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Media Inequality in Conversation: How People Behave Differently When Interacting With Computers and People
The present study presents a laboratory experiment grounded in the principles of Interpersonal Theory, a psychological approach to interpersonal dynamics. Discourse analyses revealed a key difference in participants ’ behavior…