Author: SRI International
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Improved Modeling and Efficiency for Automatic Transcription of Broadcast News
In this paper, we report on our research and progress on the DARPA-sponsored Hub-4 continuous speech recognition evaluations, with an emphasis on efficient modeling.
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Structuring Group Learning Within A Web-Based Science Inquiry Program
We examined trends in the ways science teachers organized students into groups to implement one prominent one Web-based science inquiry program, Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE).
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A 50-kb Plasmid Rich in Mobile Gene Sequences Isolated from a Marine Micrococcus
A 50,709-bp cryptic plasmid isolated from a marine Micrococcus has been sequenced and found to contain a number of putative mobile genetic elements.
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School Change with Technology: Crossing the Digital Divide
In this article, we explore the process of school change documenting the school and community efforts to close the technical, cultural, and structural dimensions of the digital divide.
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Class Size Reduction And Teacher Migration
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Constrained optimization based control of real time large-scale systems: airjet object movement system
This paper demonstrates that hyper-redundant systems are capable of system self-identification, and that constrained optimization can effectively solve problems associated with control of many-element systems.
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Multispeaker Speech Activity Detection for the ICSI Meeting Recorder
We have developed a more sophisticated approach for multichannel speech activity detection using a simple hidden Markov model (HMM).
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Prosody Modeling for Automatic Speech Understanding: An Overview of Recent Research at SRI
In this paper, we summarize recent work at SRI International in the area of computational prosody modeling, and results from several recognition tasks where prosodic knowledge proved to be of help
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Modeling Word Durations
We describe a new method of modeling duration at word level. These duration models are easily trained from the acoustic training data and can be used to rescore N-best lists of recognition hypotheses.
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Can Prosody Aid the Automatic Processing of Multi-Party Meetings? Evidence from Predicting Punctuation, Disfluencies,and Overlapping Speech
We investigate whether probabilistic modeling of prosody can aid various automatic labeling tasks essential for processing of multi-party meetings.
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Palm Education Pioneers Program Round I Preliminary Evaluation Report
Through the PEP program, Palm has equipped more than 175 classrooms throughout the United States with a handheld computer for every student. CTL’s research will help determine the impact that handheld technologies can have on teaching and learning.
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Handheld Computers In Education: Current Trends And Future Research