Author: SRI International
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Contract Training And The Community College: Origins And Impacts
This article describes the main contours of the community college’s involvement in contract training, explains how this involvement arose, and analyzes its impact on the community college.
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Rapid-Assembly Componentware For Education
By identifying, crystallizing and organizing design patterns, we aim to address problems of reusability and interoperability that currently present critical bottlenecks for the rapid assembly of educational technology.
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The Future of Technology and Education: Where are we heading?
The four C’s for the future of education are: Community, Collaboration, Curriculum, and Creativity. Each of these is used to organize a discussion of where we are heading in education during the Age of Communities.
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Comer’s School Development Program In Chicago: A Theory-Based Evaluation
Using fifth through eighth-grade students, the Comer School Development Program was evaluated in 10 inner city Chicago schools over 4 years, contrasting them with nine randomly selected no-treatment comparison schools.
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Coordinating Planning Activity and Information Flow in a Distributed Planning System
Distributed SIPE (DSIPE) is a distributed planning system that provides decision support to human planners in a collaborative planning environment.
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A Survey of Research in Distributed, Continual Planning
In this article, we describe a new paradigm for planning in complex, dynamic environments, which we term distributed, continual planning (DCP). We argue that developing DCP systems will be necessary in order for planning applications to be successful in these environments.
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Phonetic Consequences of Speech Disfluency
Analyses of American English show that disfluency affects a variety of phonetic aspects of speech, including segment durations, intonation, voice quality, vowel quality, and coarticulation patterns. These effects provide clues about production processes, and can guide methods for disfluency processing in speech recognition applications.
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Data-Driven Subclassification of Disfluent Repetitions Based on Prosodic Features
This study delves into the acoustic and prosodic information of repetitions, one of the most common disfluencies. A hierarchical clustering of prosodic features reveals three subsets of repetitions, each reflecting different problems in planning.
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ILU 2.0beta1 reference manual
Reference manual for ILU, an inter-language unification system.
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Characterizing the Performance of Multiple-Image Point-Correspondence Algorithms using Self-Consistency
A new approach to characterizing the performance of point- correspondence algorithms is presented.
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Robust Text-Independent Speaker Identification over Telephone Channels
This paper addresses the issue of closed-set text-independent speaker identifcation from samples of speech recorded over the telephone. It focuses on the effects of acoustic mismatches between training and testing data, and concentrates on two approaches: extracting features that are robust against channel variations, and transforming the speaker models to compensate for channel effects.
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Modeling the Prosody of Hidden Events for Improved Word Recognition
We investigate a new approach for using speech prosody as a knowledge source for speech recognition. The idea is to penalize word hypotheses that are inconsistent with prosodic features such as duration and pitch.