Publications
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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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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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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…
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Using Cognitive Analyses To Describe Students’ Science Inquiry And Motivation To Learn
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National Early Intervention Longitudinal Study (NEILS): Program Director Survey
Directors of programs serving the children and families during their first six months in service complete a mail survey on the characteristics of their programs such as the number and…
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Using Cognitive Analyses To Understand Motivational And Situational Influences In Science Achievement
This study explores the relationship between students’ test perceptions, motivation and engagement in multiple-choice and performance assessment testing contexts.