Publications
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Thermal cure effects on electrical performance of nanoparticle silver inks
Physical, electrical, and morphological properties of thermally annealed silver nanoparticle thin films are described.
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An exploratory study of the effect of domain knowledge on Internet search behavior: The case of diabetes
This study investigated how domain knowledge, about diabetes, influences the process and outcome of answering complex questions using the internet.
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Modeling the Impact of Formal and Informal Supports for Young Children with Disabilities and Their Families
Findings reinforce the role of high-quality services in maximizing perceived impact. They also highlight the important role of informal support in promoting optimism and confidence in parenting. Poverty status, minority…
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Capturing and Answering Questions Posed to a Knowledge-Based System
As part of the ongoing project, Project Halo, our goal is to build a system capable of answering questions posed by novice users to a formal knowledge base. In our…
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Introduction to Build It Workshop
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Enabling Experts to Build Knowledge Bases from Science Textbooks
As a near-term goal, we are focusing on enabling subject matter experts (SMEs) to construct declarative knowledge bases (KBs) from 50 pages of a science textbook in the domains of…
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Extending Boosting for Large Scale Spoken Language Understanding
We propose three methods for extending the Boosting family of classifiers motivated by the real-life problems we have encountered. Our results indicate that it is possible to obtain the same…
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Radio and Meteor Science Outcomes from Comparisons of Meteor Radar Observations at Amisr Poker Flat, Sondrestrom, and Arecibo
We address these meteor “head-echo” observations issues via the first ever use and analysis of meteor observations from the Poker Flat AMISR (PFISR: 449.3 MHz), Sondrestrom (SRF: 1,290 MHz), and Arecibo (AO:…
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Capturing a Taxonomy of Failures During Automatic Interpretation of Questions Posed in Natural Language
In this paper, we present a study – conducted in the context of the Halo Project – cataloging the types of failures that occur when capturing knowledge from natural language.
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Comparison of US, EPO, and PCT Patent Citations for Citation Analysis
This paper summarizes the results of a statistical comparison of citations on patent documents from the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO), the EPO, and the PCT to determine whether…
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Usable security: oxymoron or challenge?
Review talk discussing results from the literature on password usability, and our own work on wireless security and usable remote access to data.
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Usable security: oxymoron or challenge?
Review talk discussing results from the literature on password usability, and our own work on wireless security and usable remote access to data.