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Boulder Language Technologies was founded by Ron Cole and Wayne Ward in February 2007. 



[PDF] A taxonomy of questions for question generation
[PDF] from 141.225.40.110RD Nielsen, J Buckingham, G Knoll... - Proceedings of the ..., 2008 - 141.225.40.110
... Rodney D. Nielsen1, Jason Buckingham, Gary Knoll, Ben Marsh and Leysia Palen 1 Boulder
Language Technologies 1 Center for Computational Language and Education Research,
University of Colorado, Boulder Rodney.Nielsen@Colorado.edu Abstract ... 
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[PDF] Question generation: Proposed challenge tasks and their evaluation
[PDF] from rodneynielsen.comR Nielsen - Proceedings of the Workshop on the Question ..., 2008 - rodneynielsen.com
Page 1. Question Generation: Proposed Challenge Tasks and Their Evaluation Rodney D. Nielsen
Boulder Language Technologies Center for Computational Language and Education Research,
University of Colorado, Boulder Rodney.Nielsen@Colorado.edu Abstract ... 
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Extracting a representation from text for semantic analysis
[PDF] from rug.nlRD Nielsen, W Ward, JH Martin... - Proceedings of the 46th ..., 2008 - dl.acm.org
... Rodney D. Nielsen1,2, Wayne Ward1,2, James H. Martin1, and Martha Palmer1 1 Center for
Computational Language and Education Research, University of Colorado, Boulder 2 Boulder
Language Technologies, 2960 Center Green Ct., Boulder, CO 80301 Rodney.Nielsen ... 
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[PDF] FLORA, FLuent Oral Reading Assessment of Children's Speech
[PDF] from bltek.comD Bolaños, RA Cole, WH WARD, E Borts... - Journal of the ACM, 2001 - bltek.com
... DANIEL BOLA˜NOS Boulder Language Technologies, University of Colorado RONALD A. COLE
Boulder Language Technologies WAYNE H. WARD Boulder Language Technologies, University
of Colorado ERIC BORTS Boulder Language Technologies and EDWARD ... 
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Computerized script training for aphasia: Preliminary results
[HTML] from nih.govLR Cherney, AS Halper, AL Holland... - American Journal of Speech- ..., 2008 - ASHA
... Leora R. Cherney Anita S. Halper Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, and Northwestern
University, Chicago Audrey L. Holland University of Arizona, Tucson. Ron Cole Mentor
Interactive, Boulder, CO, and Boulder Language Technologies, Boulder. ... 
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Automatic Generation of Fine-Grained Representations of Learner Response Semantics
R Nielsen, W Ward... - Intelligent Tutoring Systems, 2008 - Springer
... Rodney D. Nielsen1,2, Wayne Ward1,2, and James H. Martin1 1 Center for Computational
Language and Education Research, CU Boulder 2 Boulder Language Technologies
{Rodney.Nielsen,Wayne.Ward,James.Martin}@ Colorado.edu Abstract. ... 
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[HTML] Boulder Language Technologies
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ICARE is a project funded by the Institute of Education Sciences to develop an efficient and 
independent computer-based reading assessment system. Schools and researchers need 
reliable and valid testing to identify and plan appropriate instruction for children ...
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A Reference Verification Framework and its Application to a Children's Speech Reading Tracker
D Bolaños, WH Ward... - Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on ..., 2009 - dl.acm.org
... Daniel Bolaños Boulder Language Technologies 2960 Center Green Court, Suite 200 Boulder,
Colorado, USA dani@bltek.com Wayne H. Ward Boulder Language Technologies 2960 Center
Green Court, Suite 200 Boulder, Colorado, USA wward@bltek.com ... 
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Proceedings of QG2010: The Third Workshop on Question Generation
[PDF] from open.ac.ukKE Boyer... - 2010 - oro.open.ac.uk
... Université de Lyon, France) Hidenobu Kunichika (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
Chin-Yew Lin (Microsoft Research Asia, China) Mihai Lintean (University of Memphis, USA) Jon
Mason (InterCog, Australia) Rodney Nielsen (Boulder Language Technologies, USA) Jose ... 
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[PDF] Phase I Final Report NIH Grant# 1 R43 DC009926-01 An Accessible, Effective Treatment for Sentence Deficit in Agrammatic Aphasia
[PDF] from bltek.comRAC PI - 2010 - bltek.com
... During the period of the SBIR grant, PI Ron Cole worked half time at Mentor Interactive
Inc. and half time at Boulder Language Technologies. In November 2009 Dr. Cole moved
the project staff to Boulder Language Technologies (BLT). ... 
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The Changing" Face" of Aphasia Therapy
[HTML] from asha.orgJB Lee... - ... on neurophysiology and neurogenic speech and ..., 2008 - ASHA
... of the software and the implementation of the research study, including Anita Halper, Edna Babbitt,
Rosalind Hurwitz and Rosalind Kaye in the Center for Aphasia Research at the Rehabilitation
Institute of Chicago; Ronald Cole at Boulder Language Technologies; Sarel Van ... 
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[PDF] Collaborative Research: Improving Science Learning in Inquiry-based Programs
[PDF] from bltek.comW Ward... - bltek.com
Page 1. Proposal Submitted to the National Science Foundation entitled: Collaborative
Research: Improving Science Learning in Inquiry-based Programs Wayne Ward (Principal
Investigator), Ron Cole (Co-Principal Investigator) Project Summary ... 
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Classification errors in a domain-independent assessment system
[PDF] from aclweb.orgRD Nielsen, W Ward... - Proceedings of the Third Workshop on ..., 2008 - dl.acm.org
... Rodney D. Nielsen1,2, Wayne Ward1,2 and James H. Martin1 1 Center for Computational
Language and Education Research, University of Colorado, Boulder 2 Boulder Language
Technologies, 2960 Center Green Ct., Boulder, CO 80301 Rodney.Nielsen, Wayne.Ward, James ... 
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[PDF] What's next? Target concept identification and sequencing
[PDF] from open.ac.ukL Becker, RD Nielsen, I Okoye... - ... of QG2010: The Third ..., 2010 - oro.open.ac.uk
... Boulder, CO, 80309 USA {lee. becker, rodney. nielsen, ifeyinwa. okoye, tamara.
sumner}@ colorado. edu, 2 Boulder Language Technologies, Boulder, CO 80301
USA wward@ bltek. com Abstract. We define the first and arguably ... 
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Evaluating Questions in Context
L Becker, MS Palmer, S van Vuuren... - 2011 AAAI Fall Symposium ..., 2011 - aaai.org
... colorado.edu Wayne H. Ward Boulder Language Technologies wward@bltek.com
Abstract We present an evaluation methodology and a system for rank- ing questions
within the context of a multimodal tutorial dia- logue. Such ... 
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[PDF] Sponsored by the National Science Foundation
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Page 1. THEQUESTIONGENERATIONSHAREDTASKAND EVALUATIONCHALLENGE
Workshop Report Sponsored by the National Science Foundation EDITED BY: VASILE RUS
AND ARTHUR C. GRAESSER The University of Memphis Page 2. ... 
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[PDF] DISCUSS: A dialogue move taxonomy layered over semantic representations
[PDF] from aclweb.orgL Becker, WH Ward, S van Vuuren... - In Proceedings of the ..., 2011 - aclweb.org
... representations Lee Becker1 Wayne H. Ward1,2 Sarel van Vuuren1 Martha Palmer1
1lee.becker, martha.palmer, sarel.vanvuurenl@colorado.edu, wward@bltek.com 1University
of Colorado at Boulder, 2Boulder Language Technologies Abstract ... 
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[PDF] Tac 2008 clear rte system report: Facet-based entailment
[PDF] from nist.govRD Nielsen, L Becker... - ... of the Text Analysis Conference (TAC ..., 2009 - nist.gov
... Rodney D. Nielsen1,2, Lee Becker2 and Wayne Ward1,2 1 Boulder Language Technologies,
2960 Center Green Ct., Boulder, CO 80301 2 Center for Computational Language and Education
Research, University of Colorado, Boulder Rodney.Nielsen, Lee.Becker, Wayne.Ward ... 
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[HTML] Task Description
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... Task Proposers: Myroslava Dzikovska (m.dzikovska@ed.ac.uk), University of Edinburgh
[Primary Contact] Rodney Nielsen (rodney.nielsen@colorado.edu), Boulder Language
Technologies and University of Colorado at Boulder. ... 
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A Platform for Human-Robot Dialog Systems Research
RD Nielsen, R Voyles, D Bolanos, M Mahoor... - 2010 AAAI Fall ..., 2010 - aaai.org
... Mahoor 2 , Wilson Pace 4 , Katie Siek 1 , and Wayne Ward 3 1 CU Boulder, 2 University
of Denver, 3 Boulder Language Technologies, 4 CU Denver Anschutz Medical Campus
Rodney.Nielsen@Colorado.edu Abstract We present ... 
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[PDF] What a pilot study says about running a question generation challenge
[PDF] from 141.225.40.110L BECKER, RD NIELSEN... - AIED 2009: 14 th ..., 2009 - 141.225.40.110
... One of the most significant contributions of this paper is the light it has shed on issues
involved in running a QG challenge. Acknowledgements We thank the tutors at
Boulder Language Technologies for their help in this study. ... 
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[PDF] ALICE: Acquisition of Language through an Interactive Comprehension Environment
[PDF] from ujaen.esM Fuentes... - Procesamiento de Lenguaje Natural, 2011 - sinai.ujaen.es
... So, the conversation has several variations depending on the content of the student's answers.
4http://www.javasonics.com 5http://www.bltek.com/flora/ 6http://sifnos.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/WERTi/
7http:nlp.lsi.upc.edu/digui Maria Fuentes y Meritxell González 332 
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My science tutor: A conversational multimedia virtual tutor for elementary school science
[PDF] from bltek.comW Ward, R Cole, D Bolaños... - ACM Transactions on ..., 2011 - dl.acm.org
... W. Ward is Chief Scientist and shareholder at Boulder Language Technologies and a research
professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder Author's address: email: wward@bltek.com
Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work for personal or ... 
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Recognizing entailment in intelligent tutoring systems
[PDF] from rodneynielsen.comRD Nielsen, W Ward... - Natural Language ..., 2009 - Cambridge Univ Press
... 1 The corpus can be freely downloaded via the Resources page linked to the first author's
homepage at http://www.bltek.com/main-link/ Page 7. Recognizing entailment in intelligent tutoring
systems 485 Fig. 2. Example dependency parse tree (a) and final representation (b). ... 
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ALICE: Acquisition of Language through an Interactive Comprehension Environment
[PDF] from ua.esM Fuentes Fort... - FUENTES, 2011 - rua.ua.es
... So, the conversation has several variations depending on the content of the student's answers.
4http://www.javasonics.com 5http://www.bltek.com/flora/ 6http://sifnos.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/WERTi/
7http:nlp.lsi.upc.edu/digui Maria Fuentes y Meritxell González 332 
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A novel framework of training hidden markov support vector machines from lightly-annotated data
D Zhou... - Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference ..., 2011 - dl.acm.org
... We modified the open source SV Mhmm2 to train and test the HM-SVMs on abstract
annotations. 1http://www.bltek.com/spoken-dialog-systems/ cu-communicator.html
2http://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/tj/svm_light/ svm_hmm.html 2027 Page 4. ... 
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[PDF] FLORA: Fluent Oral Reading Assessment of Children's Speech
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... DANIEL BOLA ˜NOS, Boulder Language Technologies and University of Colorado RONALD
A. COLE, Boulder Language Technologies WAYNE WARD, Boulder Language Technologies
and University of Colorado ERIC BORTS and EDWARD SVIRSKY, Boulder Language ... 
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[PDF] COVER SHEET FOR PROPOSAL TO THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
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Page 1. COVER SHEET FOR PROPOSAL TO THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION FOR
NSF USE ONLY NSF PROPOSAL NUMBER DATE RECEIVED NUMBER OF COPIES DIVISION
ASSIGNED FUND CODE DUNS# (Data Universal Numbering System) ... 
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[PDF] Foundations to Literacy's Study Plan
[PDF] from colorado.eduS van Vuuren... - ics.colorado.edu
... The former PI, R. Cole, left the University and is working for Mentor Interactive, Inc and started
a research institute, Boulder Language Technologies, Inc, to do research independent of the
University. Page 14. ICS TR-01-07: Foundations to Literacy's Study Plan 15 Appendix A ... 
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[PDF] Designing for Automatic Affect Inference in Learning Environments
[PDF] from ifets.infoS Afzal... - Supporting Organizations, 2011 - ifets.info
Page 26. Afzal, S., & Robinson, P.(2011). Designing for Automatic Affect Inference
in Learning Environments. Educational Technology & Society, 14 (4), 21-34. 21 ISSN
1436-4522 (online) and 1176-3647 (print).(c) International ... 
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Clinical decision-making in aphasia therapy: A survey of perceived levels of evidence for common treatment approaches
[PDF] from usf.eduET Rowe - 2010 - scholarcommons.usf.edu
Page 1. University of South Florida Scholar Commons Theses and Dissertations 6-1-2010
Clinical decision-making in aphasia therapy: A survey of perceived levels of evidence for
common treatment approaches Erin T. Rowe University of South Florida ... 
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