Publications
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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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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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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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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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Research To Support Scaling-Up Technology-Based Educational Interventions
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Fast Symbolic Evaluation of C/C++ Preprocessing Using Conditional Values
We present a new approach for symbolic evaluation that can efficiently compute these conditions by binding variables to conditional values and avoiding the path feasibility analysis of traditional symbolic evaluation.
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Interactive Execution Monitoring of Agent Teams
We describe a monitoring framework for integrating many domain-specific and task-specific monitoring techniques and then using the concept of value of an alert to avoid operator overload.
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Five Key Considerations for Networking in A Handheld-Based Mathematics Classroom
In this report, we seek to respond by describing five key classroom networking considerations. To serve the interests of the PME audience, we seek to focus only on those aspects…
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Globe Year 7 Evaluation: Exploring Student Research and Inquiry in Globe
This is the seventh in a series of annual evaluation reports provided to the GLOBE Program by SRI, which has been evaluating the Program since its inception.
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Handhelds Go to School: Lessons Learned
Wireless handhelds offer new opportunities for innovative user interaction, communication, and connection with sensors – both in the classroom and on field trips.