Publications
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Modeling Word-Level Rate-of-Speech Variation in Large Vocabulary Conversational Speech Recognition
We propose to use a set of parallel rate-specific acoustic and pronunciation models. Rate switching is permitted at word boundaries, to allow within-sentence speech rate variation, which is common in…
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“TalkPrinting”: Improving Speaker Recognition by Modeling Stylistic Features
This paper describes "TalkPrinting", a program of research aimed at adding such stylistic features to conventional systems.
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Design Patterns For Assessing Science Inquiry (Padi Technical Report 1)
This paper reports progress on one facet of PADI: design patterns for assessing science inquiry. Design patterns bridge knowledge about aspects of science inquiry that one would want to assess…
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Evaluating Educational Technology: Effective Research Designs For Improving Learning
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Execution Monitoring in Agent Teams
We characterize the domain-independent challenges posed by this problem, and describe how properties of domains influence the challenges and their solutions.
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Automatic Dialog Act Labeling With Minimal Supervision
We investigate the problem of automatically tagging dialog acts when hand-labeled training data is scarce. The tagging paradigm employed is a hidden Markov model in which dialog acts are states…
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Geoscience Projects and the Online Evaluation Resource Library (OERL)
A Web-Based Tool to Support the Professional Development of Evaluators
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Painting A Landscape Onto TAPPED IN 2
Starting in mid-2001, with new NSF funding, we began working with our partners and community to design a new TAPPED IN system that we call Tapped In Version 2.
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National Early Intervention Longitudinal Study: Sampling and Weighting Procedures: Enrollment Form, Family Interview, Service Records. NEILS Methodology Report No. 1
This reports details how the NEILS sample design balances the requirements for a nationally representative, three-stage sample against a further crucial criterion.
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A Decade of Public Charter Schools
Researchers at SRI International are conducting the first national evaluation of the PCSP for the U.S. Department of Education (ED).
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The Nature And Future Of Classroom Connectivity: The Dialectics Of Mathematics In The Social Space
This paper is about a specific instance of the interaction and coevolution of design, technological affordance, and cognitive theory. The idea is that next generation networking can better support or…
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PASSAT: A User-centric Planning Framework
We describe a plan-authoring system called PASSAT (Plan Authoring System based on Sketches, Advice, and Templates) that combines interactive tools for constructing plans with a suite of automated and mixed-initiative…