Heather Pon-Barry Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Research Group School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Harvard University Email:  Turn on JavaScript to view the email address Office:  Maxwell Dworkin 208 33 Oxford Street Cambridge MA 02138

2011

• Recognizing Uncertainty in Speech
  Heather Pon-Barry and Stuart M. Shieber.
  EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2011(251753), 2011.
  Special Issue on Emotion and Mental State Recognition from Speech.
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2010

• Assessing Self-awareness and Transparency when Classifying a Speaker's Level of Certainty
  Heather Pon-Barry and Stuart Shieber.
  Proceedings of Speech Prosody, May 2010.
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2009

• Identifying Uncertain Words within an Utterance via Prosodic Features
  Heather Pon-Barry and Stuart Shieber.
  Proceedings of Interspeech, pp. 1579–1582, September 2009.
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• The Importance of Sub-utterance Prosody in Predicting Level of Certainty
  Heather Pon-Barry and Stuart Shieber.
  Proceedings of NAACL HLT: Short Papers, pp. 105–108, June 2009.
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• Interactive Question Answering and Constraint Relaxation in Spoken Dialogue Systems
  Sebastian Varges, Fuliang Weng, and Heather Pon-Barry.
  Natural Language Engineering, 15(1):9–30, 2009.
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2008

• Prosodic Manifestations of Confidence and Uncertainty in Spoken Language
  Heather Pon-Barry.
  Proceedings of Interspeech, pp. 74–77, September 2008.
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2006

• Evaluation of Content Presentation Strategies for an In-car Spoken Dialogue System
  Heather Pon-Barry, Fuliang Weng, and Sebastian Varges.
  Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Interspeech, pp. 1930–1933, 2006.
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• CHAT: A Conversational Helper for Automotive Tasks
  Fuliang Weng, Sebastian Varges, Badri Raghunathan, Florin Ratiu, Heather Pon-Barry, Brian Lathrop, et al.
  Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Interspeech, pp. 1061–1064, 2006.
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• Interactive Question Answering and Constraint Relaxation in Spoken Dialogue Systems
  Sebastian Varges, Fuliang Weng, and Heather Pon-Barry.
  Proceedings of the 7th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, pp. 28–35, 2006.
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• Responding to Student Uncertainty in Spoken Tutorial Dialogue Systems
  Heather Pon-Barry, Karl Schultz, Elizabeth Owen Bratt, Brady Clark, and Stanley Peters.
  International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 16:171–194, 2006.
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2005

• Contextualizing Reflective Dialogue in a Spoken Conversational Tutor
  Heather Pon-Barry, Karl Schultz, Brady Clark, Elizabeth Owen Bratt, Stanley Peters, and David Haley.
  Journal of Educational Technology and Society, 8(4):42–51, 2005.
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• A General Purpose Architecture for Intelligent Tutoring Systems
  Brady Clark, Oliver Lemon, Alexander Gruenstein, Elizabeth Owen Bratt, John Fry, Stanley Peters, Heather Pon-Barry, Karl Schultz, Zack Thomsen-Gray, and Pucktada Treeratpituk.
  In Natural, Intelligent and Effective Interaction in Multimodal Dialogue Systems, edited by Niels Ole Bernsen, Laila Dybkjaer, and Jan van Kuppevelt, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2005.
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2004

• Advantages of Spoken Language in Dialogue-based Tutoring Systems
  Heather Pon-Barry, Brady Clark, Karl Schultz, Elizabeth Owen Bratt, and Stanley Peters.
  Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS), pp. 390–400, 2004.
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• Evaluating the effectiveness of SCoT: a spoken conversational tutor
  Heather Pon-Barry, Brady Clark, Elizabeth Owen Bratt, Karl Schultz, and Stanley Peters.
  Proceedings of the ITS Workshop on Dialog-based Intelligent Tutoring Systems, pp. 23–32, 2004.
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• Contextualizing Learning in a Reflective Conversational Tutor
  Heather Pon-Barry, Brady Clark, Karl Schultz, Elizabeth Owen Bratt, and Stanley Peters.
  Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, pp. 236–240, 2004.
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• Intelligent Systems for Training Damage Control Assistants
  Stanley Peters, Elizabeth Owen Bratt, Brady Clark, Heather Pon-Barry, Karl Schultz.
  Proceedings of I/ITSEC 2004, Orlando, Florida, 2004.
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• In search of Bloom's missing sigma: Adding the conversational intelligence of human tutors to an intelligent tutoring system
  Heather Pon-Barry.
  Unpublished M.S. Thesis, Stanford University, 2004.
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2003

• A Scalable, Reusable Spoken Conversational Tutor: SCoT
  Karl Schultz, Elizabeth Owen Bratt, Brady Clark, Stanley Peters, Heather Pon-Barry, and Pucktada Treeratpituk.
  Proceedings of the AIED Workshop on Tutorial Dialogue Systems: With a View Towards the Classroom, pp. 367–377, 2003.
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2002

• A General Purpose Architecture for Intelligent Tutoring Systems
  Brady Clark, Elizabeth Owen Bratt, Oliver Lemon, Stanley Peters, Heather Pon-Barry, Zack Thomsen-Gray, and Pucktada Treeratpituk.
  Proceedings of the International CLASS Workshop on Natural, Intelligent and Effective Interaction in Multimodal Dialogue Systems, 2002.
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• Model-Based Reasoning for Tutorial Dialogue in Shipboard Damage Control
  Elizabeth Owen Bratt, Brady Clark, Zack Thomsen-Gray, Stanley Peters, Pucktada Treeratpituk, Heather Pon-Barry, Karl Schultz, David C. Wilkins, and David Fried.
  Proceedings of the ITS Workshop on Model Based Systems and Qualitative Reasoning for Intelligent Tutoring Systems, pp. 63–69, 2002.
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2001

• A Multimodal Intelligent Tutoring System for Shipboard Damage Control
  Brady Clark, John Fry, Matt Ginzton, Stanley Peters, Heather Pon-Barry, and Zack Thomsen-Gray.
  Proceedings of the International Workshop on Information Presentation and Multimodal Dialogue, pp. 121–125, 2001.
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• Automated Tutoring Dialogues for Training in Shipboard Damage Control
  John Fry, Matt Ginzton, Stanley Peters, Brady Clark, and Heather Pon-Barry.
  Proceedings of the 2nd SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, 2001.
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