Publications
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National Evaluation of Writing Project Professional Development: Year 1 Report
Year 1 report on SRI’s examination of changes in students’ writing proficiency, students’ writing practices, teachers’ instructional practices, and teachers’ professional communities in middle schools that have formed partnerships with…
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Phys 644-Effect of Dissociated Oxygen on the Structure of Low-Temperature Water Ice Films
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Automatic Annotation of Dialogue Structure from Simple User Interaction
We investigate, through the transformation of human annotations into hypothetical idealized user interactions, the relative utility of various modes of user interaction and techniques for their interpretation.
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Using a Semantic Wiki as a Knowledge Source for Rich Modeling and Question Answering
We are exploring the following hypothesis at the intersection between knowledge engineering and the semantic web: Can we use a semantic wiki to acquire symbolic knowledge on the web that…
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Cyber-Physical Systems and Events
This paper discusses event-based semantics in the context of the emerging concept of Cyber Physical Systems and describes two related formal models concerning policy-based coordination and Interactive Agents.
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Heart Rate Variability During Sleep in Women with Severe Premenstrual Syndrome
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Meeting Structure Annotation
We describe a generic set of tools for representing, annotating, and analysing multi-party discourse, including: an ontology of multimodal discourse, a programming interface for that ontology, and NOMOS – a flexible and…
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Outdoor Mapping and Navigation Using Stereo Vision
We consider the problem of autonomous navigation in an unstructured outdoor environment. The goal is for a small outdoor robot to come into a new area, learn about and map…
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Preparing Teachers To Teach For Deep Understanding: A Curriculum-Based Approach
A central goal of most professional development in Earth science is to help teachers prepare their students to develop a deep understanding of subject matter. We describe an approach that…
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Systems Learning for Complex Pattern Problems
What are the principles behind long-term learning and development? We describe our efforts in this direction and discuss the many challenges.
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Automatic Labeling Inconsistencies Detection and Correction for Sentence Unit Segmentation in Conversational Speech
In this work, we present various methods to detect labeling inconsistencies in the ICSI meeting corpus. We show that by automatically detecting and removing the inconsistent examples from the training…
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Detecting nonnative speech using speaker recognition approaches
Detecting whether a talker is speaking his native language is useful for speaker recognition, speech recognition, and intelligence applications. We study the problem of detecting nonnative speakers of American English,…