Publications
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Oerl Survey Design, Methodology, Administration And Results
This paper documents the process employed to develop and administer a methodologically sound set of surveys to evaluate the Online Evaluation Resource Library (OERL) Web site.
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Introduction to special issue on sensing-based interaction
Sensing-based interaction is at the core of, or synonymous with, many emerging or fast developing areas of human-computer interaction research, including pervasive, ubiquitous or context aware computing, intelligent environments, augmented…
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SRI’s 2004 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation System
This paper describes our recent efforts in exploring longer-range features and their statistical modeling techniques for speaker recognition. In particular, we describe a system that uses discriminant features from cepstral…
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Participatory, Example-Based Data Modeling In Padi (Padi Technical Report 4)
We describe a Web-based tool for modeling that creates and manipulates a simple data model without representing it in UML, while promoting collaboration and the use of examples to compare…
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Ontology-based discourse understanding for a persistent meeting assistant
In this paper, we present research toward ontology-based understanding of discourse in meetings and describe an ontology of multimodal discourse designed for this purpose.
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Think Globally, Act Locally: An Analysis Of Community Participation Discourse In Education For All National Action Plans
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The Independent Evaluation of the Science Teachers Initiative (CASCITI): Year 1 Report
This evaluation describes the CSP’s work since from 2001-02 to 2003-04 and assesses whether it met its goals under CASCITI. This chapter first outlines the CSP’s background to enable the…
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Automatic Dialog Act Segmentation and Classification in Multiparty Meetings
We explore the two related tasks of dialog act (DA) segmentation and DA classification for speech from the ICSI Meeting Corpus. We employ simple lexical and prosodic knowledge sources, and…
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Fostering Collaboration with a Semantic Index over Textual Contributions
We are exploring new approaches to facilitating effective collaboration that remove or reduce common barriers and that exploit opportunities to encourage more effective collaboration, including transcending the cognitive biases of…
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A Personalized Time Management Assistant
This paper presents ongoing work to build the Personalized Time Manager (PTIME) system, a persistent assistant that builds on our previous work on a personalized calendar agent.
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Improved Phonetic Speaker Recognition Using Lattice Decoding
In this paper, we present results on the Switchboard-2 corpus, where we compare 1-best phone decodings versus lattice phone decodings for the purposes of performing phonetic speaker recognition.
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Structural Metadata Research in the EARS Program
In this paper we provide a brief overview of research on structural metadata extraction in the DARPA EARS rich transcription program. Tasks include detection of sentence boundaries, filler words, and…