Gina-Anne Levow

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. September 1998.

• Ph.D. Thesis: Characterizing and Recognizing Spoken Corrections in Human-Computer Dialog
• Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Robert C. Berwick

• Master's Thesis: A Discourse-Neutral Prosodic Phrasing System for Mandarin Chinese

Bachelor of Applied Science, Computer Science, University of Pennsylvania, May 1989.
Bachelor of Arts, Oriental Studies, University of Pennsylvania, May 1989.

Middlebury College Chinese School, Middlebury, VT, Summer 1986.

University of Washington:

• September, 2010- current: Assistant Professor, Linguistics Department

University of Chicago:

• September, 2008- August, 2010:Research Associate (Assistant Professor), Department of Computer Science
• September, 2001- August, 2008: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science

University of Manchester: October, 2008- April, 2010

• Research Fellow, Department of Computer Science
• National Centre for Text Mining

University of Maryland, College Park, MD: September 1998-September 2001

• Research Associate, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
• Computational Linguistics and Information Processing Laboratory (CLIP)

• Visiting Scholar, Human-Computer Communication Laboratory.

Oregon Graduate Institute for Science and Technology, Portland, OR: Summer 1995, Summer 1996

• NSF Summer Intern, Center for Human-Computer Communication

Kurzweil Applied Intelligence, Waltham, MA: Summer 1995 to Winter 1996

• NIST Group Summer Intern, Consultant

• Speech Group Summer Intern, Contractor

• Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C.
• ONR Graduate Intern

• PI: (2008-2010) "Dyadic Rapport within and across Cultures: Multimodal Assessment of Human-Human and Human-Computer Interaction", National Science Foundation, BCS-0729515, Human and Social Dynamics Program, Dynamics of Human Behavior, Jan 2008-Dec 2012, $415,643 David McNeill (PI: 2010-2011, UChicago, Psychology)


• PI: (2007-2008),"Multimodal Discourse Investigation with SIDGrid", University of Chicago Academic Technology Innovation Program, $40,000.


• PI: (2004-2008),"Learning Tone", National Science Foundation, IIS-0414919, Human Language and Communication (HLC), $319,500.


• Consultant: (2003-2005),"Linking User Error to Lab and Field Study of Healthcare IT" funded by AHRQ via NIH funding mechanism R18, grant ID HS11816, Principal Investigator, Richard I. Cook.

• Sigma Xi scientific research society, Inducted May 1992


• Office of Naval Research Graduate Fellowship, 1990-1994


• Rotary Foundation Graduate Fellowship for International Understanding
  Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C., 1989 - 1990


• Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, Penna Delta Chapter, Inducted May 1988

• July 2006: Workshop Tutorial Instructor - Information Retrieval, Johns Hopkins HLT-NAACL Summer School in Human Language Technologies


• May 2005: Workshop Tutorial Instructor - Information Retrieval, Machine Learning Summer School, Toyota Technological Institute - Chicago


• June 2004: Workshop Tutorial Instructor - Information Retrieval, Johns Hopkins HLT-NAACL Summer School in Human Language Technologies


• June 2001: Workshop Tutorial Instructor - Cross-language Information Retrieval, Johns Hopkins HLT-NAACL Summer School in Human Language Technologies.

• LING575: Topics in Computational Linguistics: Spoken Dialog , Winter 2012, UW


• LING572: Advanced Statistical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Winter 2012, UW


• LING570: Shallow Processing Techniques for Natural Language Processing, Autumn 2011, UW


• LING573: Natural Language Processing: Systems and Applications, Spring 2011, UW


• LING575: Topics in Computational Linguistics, Spring 2011, UW


• LING571: Deep Processing Techniques for Natural Language Processing, Winter 2011, UW


• CMSC 35100: Natural Language Processing, Winter 2008, Winter 2006, Spring 2003, UChicago


• CMSC 25000: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Winter 2008, Winter 2007, Winter 2006, Winter 2005, Winter 2004, Winter 2003, Winter 2002, UChicago


• CMSC 16100: Honors Introduction to Computer Science, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2006, UChicago


• CMSC 35900: Topics in Artificial Intelligence: Discourse & Dialogue, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2001, UChicago


• CMSC 10500: Fundamentals of Computer Programming I, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2004, UChicago


• CSPP 51080: Structure and Interppretation of Computer Programs, Spring 2004, UChicago


• CSPP 56553: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Winter 2004, UChicago


• CMSC 11500: Introduction to Computer Programming I, Autumn 2002, UChicago


• LBSC 690: Information Technology, Summer 2001, University of Maryland, College Park

• February 4, 2011. "Investigating Interactional Rapport in Three Language/Cultural Groups", Department of Linguistics Colloquium, University of Washington.


• December 15, 2010. Panelist, Spoken Dialogue Challenge: Current, Next and Beyond, IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology 2010, Berkeley, CA.


• August 2, 2010. "Context and Learning in Multi-lingual Tone and Pitch Accent Recognition", Toyota Technological Institute, Nagoya, Japan.


• January 27, 2010. "Context and Learning in Multilingual Tone and Pitch Accent Recognition", Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR.


• January 13, 2010. "Context and Learning in Multi-lingual Tone and Pitch Accent Recognition", University of Washington.


• May 14, 2009. "Managing Ambiguity, Gaps, and Errors in Spoken Language Processing", AT&T Research, Florham Park, NJ.


• May 5, 2009. "Context and Learning in Multi-lingual Tone and Pitch Accent Recognition", National University of Singapore.


• January 4, 2008. "Prosody in Spoken Language Understanding", NLP Winter School, IIIT-Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India.


• August, 6-8, 2007. "Lessons from the SIGHAN International Chinese Word Segmentation Bakeoffs", Gina-Anne Levow, 9th Joint Symposium on Computational Linguistics, Dalian, Liaoning, PRC.


• April 1, 2006. "Understanding Global and Local Spoken Corrections in Human-Computer Dialogue", Gina-Anne Levow, Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference, MAICS 2006, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana.

• Secretary/Webmaster ACL SIGHAN, Special Interest Group on Chinese Language Processing, 2006-2014
• Member of Board , Seattle Chapter of Applied Voice Input/Output Society (AVIOS)

• [2012] Co-chair: Northwest Natural Language Processing Workshop 2012


• [2011] Co-chair: Special Session on Crowdsourcing for Speech Processing: Interspeech 2011


• [2011] Co-organizer: Special Session on Crowdsourcing for Speech Processing: Interspeech 2011


• [2009] Area Chair: Dialog: Systems and Applications: NAACL HLT 2009


• [2007] Workshops/Tutorials Co-chair: HLT-NAACL 2007


• [2006] Bakeoff Co-ordinator: Third SIGHAN Chinese Language Processing Bakeoff, 2006. Evaluation of Chinese Word Segmentation and Named Entity Recognition.


• [2005] Workshop Co-chair: Fourth SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing, 2005.


• [2004] Publications Co-chair: HLT-NAACL 2004


• Program Committee Member:
  
  • Demonstrations, NAACL 2013
  • TextGraphs 2012
  • PACLIC 2012, 2009
  • NEWS 2009, 2008
  • SIGIR 2009 Workshop on "Information Access in a Multilingual World"
  • Workshop on Semi-Supervised Learning for Natural Language Processing at NAACL HLT 2009
  • AIRS 2008, 2006, 2004
  • SIGHAN 2008, 2006
  • SIGIR 2007, 2003
  • International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (ICCPOL) 2006
  • Midwest Computational Linguistics Colloquium 2006
  • Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU) 2005
  • Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2004, 2003
  • Association for Computational Linguistics 2002 Workshop on Effective Tools and Methodologies for Teaching NLP and CL
  • ISCA Workshop on Prosody in Automatic Speech Recognition, 2001

• National Science Foundation Review Panelist 2007, 2005, 2003


• ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP): Associate Editor (2007-2009)


• Computational Linguistics: Member of Editorial Board (2003-2005)


• Reviewer at large: Journals:
  
  • Speech Communication (2012, 2011, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004)
  • Journal of Phonetics (2011)
  • Anthrozoos (2010)
  • The Linguistic Review (2010)
  • Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (2009)
  • Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (2008, 2007)
  • Computer Speech and Language (2007)
  • ACM Computing Surveys (1999)
  • Information Processing and Management
  • Language and Speech (2008)
  • Journal of the Acoustic Society of America (2008)
  • Transactions in Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP)
  • Computational Linguistics (2012,2009, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2001)
  • Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (2008)
  • Human Computer Interaction
  • ACM Transaction on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
• Reviewer at large: Conferences:
  • ACL 2012, 2011, 2010, 2007, 2005
  • LREC 2012
  • IJCNLP2011, 2004
  • EMNLP2011, 2010, 2009
  • Speech Prosody 2008
  • HLT-NAACL 2007, 2006, 2003, 2000
  • EACL 2006, 2000
  • Coling 2010, 2004
  • Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2004, 2002
  • SIGIR 2002

• [2011-2012] Admissions, CLMA/CLMS


• [2011-2012] Organizer, CLMS Graduation Planning meetings


• [2011-2012] Organizer, UW/MS Symposium

Journal Publications

• "Predicting User Satisfaction in Spoken Dialog System Evaluation With Collaborative Filtering", Zhaojun Yang, Gina-Anne Levow, and Helen Meng. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, 6(8), p. 971 - 981.


• "Named Entity Recognition for Bacterial Type IV Secretion Systems", S. Ananiadou, D. Sullivan, W. Black, G.-A. Levow, J. J. Gillespie, C. Mao, S. Pyysalo, B. Kolluru, J. Tsujii, and B. Sobral. PLoS ONE. 6(3). pp. e14780, 2011.


• "Dictionary-based Techniques for Cross-language Information Retrieval", Gina-Anne Levow, Douglas W. Oard, Philip Resnik, Information Processing and Management: Special Issue on Cross-language Information Retrieval, 41 (4):523-547, 2005.    


• "Mandarin-English Information (MEI): Investigating Translingual Speech Retrieval" Helen M. Meng, Berlin Chen, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Gina-Anne Levow, Wai-Kit Lo, Douglas W. Oard, Patrick Schone, Karen Tang, Hsin-min Wang, Jianqiang Wang (2004) Computer Speech and Language, Volume 18, Issue 2, pp. 163-179.   


• "Construction of a Chinese-English Verb Lexicon for Machine Translation and Embedded Multilingual Applications", Bonnie J. Dorr, Gina-Anne Levow, Dekang Lin (2002), Machine Translation: Special Issue on Embedded Machine Translation, Volume 17, Issue 2, pp. 99-137.   


• "Adaptations in Spoken Corrections: Implications for  Models of Conversational Speech", Gina-Anne Levow (2002) Speech Communication, 36(1-2), pp. 147-163.   
• "Modeling Global and Focal Hyperarticulation During Human-Computer Error Resolution", Sharon Oviatt, Gina-Anne Levow, Margaret MacEachern, and Elliott Moreton (1998), in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 104(5), pp. 1-19. 


• "Linguistic Adaptations During Spoken and Multimodal Error Resolution", Sharon Oviatt, Yetunde Laniran, Jon Bernard, and Gina-Anne Levow (1998), in Language and Speech, 41(3), pp. 419-442. 


• "Predicting Hyperarticulate Speech During Human-Computer Error Resolution", Sharon Oviatt, Margaret MacEachern and Gina-Anne Levow (1998) in Speech Communication, 24(2), pp. 87-110. 

Edited Volumes

• Crowdsourcing for Speech Processing: Applications to Data Collection, Transcription, and Assessment , (eds.) Maxine Eskenazi, Gina-Anne Levow, Helen Meng, David Suendermann, John Wiley and Sons, (in press).

Book Chapters

• "Crowdsourcing for Spoken Dialog System Evaluation", Zhaojun Yang, Gina-Anne Levow, Helen Meng, in Crowdsourcing for Speech Processing: Applications to Data Collection, Transcription, and Assessment ,(eds.) Maxine Eskenazi, Gina-Anne Levow, Helen Meng, David Suendermann, John Wiley and Sons. (in press)


• "Signal Boosting for Translingual Topic Tracking: Document Expansion and N-best Translation", Gina-Anne Levow and Douglas W. Oard (2002) in Topic Detection and Tracking Research, (eds.) James Allan, Jaime Carbonell, Jon Yamron, Kluwer,  pp. 175-196.

Conference Publications: Full Paper Review

• "Employing Boosting to Compare Cues to Verbal Feedback in Multi-lingual Dialog'', Gina-Anne Levow and Siwei Wang, in Proceedings of Spoken Language Technology 2012, 2012.


• "Contrasting Cues to Verbal and Non-Verbal Backchannels in Multi-lingual Dyadic Rapport", in Proceedings of Interspeech 2012, 2012.


• "Modeling Broad Context for Tone Recognition with Conditional Random Fields", Siwei Wang and Gina-Anne Levow, in Proceedings of Interspeech 2011, 2011.


• "Contrasting Multi-Lingual Prosodic Cues to Predict Verbal Feedback for Rapport", Siwei Wang and Gina-Anne Levow, in Proceedings of ACL-2011, 2011, p. 614-619.


• "Collection of User Judgments on Spoken Dialog System with Crowdsourcing", Zhaojun Yang, Baichuan Li, Yi Zhu, Irwin King, Gina Levow, Helen Meng, SLT 2010, p. 265-270.


• "Predicting User Evaluations of Spoken Dialog Systems Using Semi-supervised Learning", Baichuan Li, Zhaojun Yang, Yi Zhu, Helen Meng, Gina Levow, Irwin King, SLT 2010, p. 271-276 .


• "Using Finite State Machines for Evaluating Spoken Dialog Systems", Yi Zhu, Zhaojun Yang, Baichuan Li, Helen Meng, Gina Levow, Irwin King, SLT 2010, p. 478-483.


• "Collaborative Filtering Model for User Satisfaction Prediction in Spoken Dialog System Evaluation", Zhaojun Yang, Yi Zhu, Baichuan Li, Irwin King, Gina Levow, Helen Meng, SLT 2010, p. 472-477.


• "Cross-cultural Investigation of Prosody in Verbal Feedback in Interactional Rapport", Gina-Anne Levow, Susan Duncan, and Edward King, Interspeech 2010, p. 286-289.


• "Assessing Context and Learning for isiZulu Tone Recognition", Gina-Anne Levow, Interspeech 2009.


• "Investigating Pitch Accent Recognition in Non-native Speech", Gina-Anne Levow, Proceedings of the ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Conference Short Papers, p. 269-272.


• " Mandarin Chinese Tone Nucleus Detection with Landmarks ", Siwei Wang and Gina-Anne Levow, Interspeech 2008.


• " Can Voice Quality Improve Mandarin Tone Recognition? ", Dinoj Surendran and Gina-Anne Levow, ICASSP 2008.


• " Automatic Prosodic Labeling with Conditional Random Fields and Rich Acoustic Features", Gina-Anne Levow, IJCNLP 2008, p.217-224.


• "Social Informatics Data Grid", Bennett Bertenthal, Robert Grossman, David Hanley, Mark Hereld, Sarah Kenny, Gina Levow, Michael E. Papka, Steve Porges, Kavithaa Rajavenkateshwaran,Rick Stevens, Thomas Uram, Wenjun Wu, 3rd International eSocial Science Conference, 2007.


• "Integrating Cyberinfrastructure into Existing eSocial Science Research", Svenja Adolphs, Bennett Bertenthal, Steve Boker, Ronald Carter, Chris Greenhalgh, Mark Hereld, Sarah Kenny, Gina Levow, Michael E. Papka, Tony Pridmore, 3rd International eSocial Science Conference, 2007.


• "Topic Segmentation with Hybrid Document Indexing" Irina Matveeva and Gina-Anne Levow, Proceedings of Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2007, p. 351-359.


• "Hybrid Document Indexing with Spectral Embedding", Irina Matveeva and Gina-Anne Levow, Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2007, p. 113-116.


• "Dialog Act Tagging with Support Vector Machines and Hidden Markov Models",Dinoj Surendran and Gina-Anne Levow, Proceedings of Interspeech 2006, p. 1950-1953.


• "Improving Tone Recognition with Combined Frequency and Amplitude Modelling", Siwei Wang and Gina-Anne Levow, Proceedings of Interspeech 2006, p. 2386-2389.


• "Unsupervised and Semi-supervised Learning of Tone and Pitch Accent ", Gina-Anne Levow, HLT-NAACL 2006, p. 224-231.


• "Computing Term Translation Probabilities with Generalized Latent Semantic Analysis", I. Matveeva, G. Levow, EACL 2006, 2006, p. 151-154.


• "Context in Multi-lingual Tone and Pitch Accent Prediction", Gina-Anne Levow, Proceedings of Interspeech 2005, p. 1809-1812.


• "Tone Recognition in Mandarin using Focus", Dinoj Surendran, Gina-Anne Levow, Yi Xu, Proceedings of Interspeech 2005, p. 3301-3304.


• "Generalized Latent Semantic Analysis for Term Representation", I. Matveeva, G. Levow, A. Farahat, Chr. Royer, in Proceedings of RANLP 2005.


• "Identifying Local Corrections in Human-Computer Dialogue",Gina-Anne Levow (2004),Proceedings of International Conference on Spoken Language Processing 2004, p. 313-316.


• "Prosody-based Topic Segmentation for Mandarin Broadcast News", Gina-Anne Levow (2004),Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2004, Companion Volume, pp. 137-140.


• " The Functional Load of Tone in Mandarin is as High as That of Vowels", Dinoj Surendran and Gina-Anne Levow,(2004) Speech Prosody 2004, pp. 99-102.


• " Multi-Scale Document Expansion in English-Mandarin Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval", Wai-Kit Lo, Yuk-Chi Li, Gina-Anne Levow, Helen Meng, Hsin-min Wang (2003) in Proceedings of the Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech) 2003, pp. 2337-2340.


• "Mandarin-English (MEI): Investigating Translingual Speech Retrieval", Helen Meng, Berlin Chen, Erika Grams, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Gina-Anne Levow, Wai-Kit Lo, Douglas W. Oard, Patrick Schone, Hsin-min Wang, Jianqiang Wang (2001) in Proceedings of Human Language Technology Conference (HLT) 2001, pp. 239-245


• "Rapidly Retargetable Interactive Translingual Retrieval", Gina-Anne Levow, Douglas W. Oard, Philip Resnik (2001) in Proceedings of Human Language Technology Conference (HLT) 2001 , pp. 294-298.


• "Improved Cross-Language Retrieval using Backoff Translation", Philip Resnik, Douglas W. Oard, and Gina-Anne Levow,(2001) in Proceedings of Human Language Technology Conference (HLT) 2001, pp. 153-155.


• "Building a Chinese-English Mapping Between Verb Concepts for Multilingual Applications ", Bonnie J. Dorr, Gina-Anne Levow, Dekang Lin (2000) in Proceedings of  Fourth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA), Cuernavaca, Mexico, 2000, pp. 1-12.


• "Chinese-English Semantic Resource Construction", Bonnie J. Dorr, Gina-Anne Levow, Dekang Lin, Scott Thomas (2000) in Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, (LREC 2000), Athens, Greece, 2000. pp. 757-760.


• "Characterizing and Recognizing Spoken Corrections in Human-Computer Dialogue", Gina-Anne Levow (1998), in Proceedings of COLING-ACL '98, pp. 736-742.


• "Modeling Hyperarticulate Speech During Human-Computer Error Resolution", Sharon Oviatt, Gina-Anne Levow, Margaret MacEachern, Karen Kuhn (1996) in Proceedings of International Conference on Spoken Language Processing '96 , pp. 801-804.


• "Designing SpeechActs: Issues in Speech User Interfaces", Nicole Yankelovich, Gina-Anne Levow, Matt Marx (1995), in Proceedings of CHI '95, pp. 369-376.


• "An Experimental Discourse-Neutral Prosodic Phrasing System for Mandarin Chinese", Gina-Anne Levow (1993) in Proceedings of PACLING '93, pp. 121-130.

Workshop Publications: Full Paper Review

• "Bridging Gaps for Spoken Dialog System Frameworks in Instructional Settings", in Proceedings of NAACL-HLT Workshop on Future directions and needs in the Spoken Dialog Community: Tools and Data (SDCTD 2012), 2012, p. 21-22.


• " Studying Discourse and Dialogue with SIDGrid ", Gina-Anne Levow, The Third Workshop on Issues in Teaching Computational Linguistics, ACL08-Teaching-CL, p. 106-113.


• "SIDGRID: A Framework for Distributed, Integrated Multimodal Annotation, Archiving, and Analysis", Gina-Anne Levow, Bennett Bertenthal, Mark Hereld, Sarah Kenny, David McNeill,Michael Papka, and Sonjia Waxmonsky, 7th SIGDial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, 2007, p. 231-234.


• "The Third International Chinese Language Processing Bakeoff: Word Segmentation and Named Entity Recognition", Gina-Anne Levow, Proceedings of the Fifth SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing, 2006, p. 108-117.


• "Graph-based Generalized Latent Semantic Analysis for Document Representation", I. Matveeva, G. Levow, Proceedings of TextGraphs: the Second Workshop on Graph Based Methods for Natural Language Processing at HLT/NAACL 2006, p. 61-64.


• "Turn-taking in Mandarin Dialogue: Interactions of Tone and Intonation", Gina-Anne Levow, Proceedings of the Fourth SIGHAN Chinese Language Processing Workshop, 2005, p. 72-78.


• "Combining Prosodic and Text Features for Segmentation of Mandarin Broadcast News", Gina-Anne Levow (2004),Proceedings of the 3rd SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing, p. 102-108.


• "Assessing Prosodic and Text Features for Segmentation of Mandarin Broadcast News",Gina-Anne Levow (2004), Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2004 Workshop: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Speech Indexing and Retrieval, pp. 28-32.


• "Prosodic Cues to Discourse Segment Boundaries in Human-Computer Dialogue", Gina-Anne Levow, (2004),Proceedings of the 5th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, pp. 93-96.


• " University of Chicago at CLEF2004: Cross-language Text and Spoken Document Retrieval", Gina-Anne Levow and Irina Matveeva (2004), in Multilingual Information Access for Text, Speech and Images, 5th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2004, Bath, UK, September 15-17, 2004, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science , Vol. 3491, Peters, C.; Clough, P.; Gonzalo, J.;Jones, G.J.F.; Kluck, M.; Magnini, B. (Eds.)


• "Multi-scale Document Expansion for Mandarin Chinese", Gina-Anne Levow (2003) in Proceedings of Workshop on Multilingual Spoken Document Retrieval, at International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2003, pp. 73-78


• "Issues in Pre- and Post-translation Document Expansion: Untranslatable Cognates and Missegmented Words", Gina-Anne Levow (2003) in Proceedings of 4th International Workshop on Information Retrieval in Asian Languages, pp. 77-83.


• "Learning to Speak to a Spoken Language System: Vocabulary Convergence in Novice Users",Gina-Anne Levow (2003) in Proceedings of 4th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, pp. 149-153.


• "Construction of Chinese-English Semantic Hierarchy for Cross-language Retrieval", Gina-Anne Levow, Bonnie J. Dorr, Maria Katsova (2000) in Proceedings of Workshop on English-Chinese Cross-language Information Retrieval, International Conference on Chinese Language Computing, Chicago, IL, 2000. pp. 187-194.


• "Mandarin-English Information (MEI): Investigating Translingual Speech Retrieval", Helen Meng, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Gina-Anne Levow, Douglas W. Oard, Hsin-min Wang (2000) in Proceedings of Workshop on Embedded Machine Translation, at the First Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-2000), pp. 23-30.


• " Evaluating Lexicon Coverage for Cross-Language Information Retrieval", Gina-Anne Levow and Douglas W. Oard (1999) in Proceedings of Workshop on Multilingual Information Processing and Asian Language Processing, pp. 69-74.


• "Understanding Recognition Failures in Spoken Corrections in Human-Computer Dialogue", Gina-Anne Levow (1999) in Proceedings of ESCA Workshop on Dialogue and Prosody, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, pp. 193-198.


• "Modeling the Language Assessment Process and Result: Proposed Architecture for an Automatic Oral Proficiency Assessment", Gina-Anne Levow and Mari Broman Olsen (1999) in Proceedings of Computer-mediated Language Assessment and Evaluation in Natural Language Processing Workshop, ACL '99, pp. 24-31.

Workshop Publications: Abstract Review

• "Getting Flexible: Developing a Corpus of Iraqi Arabic to Study Multimodal Communication", Kamala Russell, Atoor Lawandow, Amy Dix, Edward King, Frederica Lipmann, Daniel Parvaz, Gina-Anne Levow, Dan Loehr, Lancaster Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics, 2011.


• "Making Sense of Silence in Speech User Interfaces", Gina-Anne Levow (1997) in Speech Recognition Design Challenges Workshop, CHI '97.

Working Notes for Shared Task Participation

• "University of Chicago at the CLEF 2007 Cross-language Speech Retrieval Track", Gina-Anne Levow (2007), Working Notes of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) 2007, Budapest, Bulgaria.


• "University of Chicago at CLEF2004: Cross-language Text and Spoken Document Retrieval", Gina-Anne Levow and Irina Matveeva (2004), in Working Notes of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) 2004, September 15-17, 2004, Bath, England, UK.


• "University of Chicago at NTCIR4 CLIR: Multi-scale Query Expansion", Gina-Anne Levow (2004), in Working Notes of the NACSIS Test Collection Information Retrieval Workshop (NTCIR-4), June 3-5, 2004, Tokyo, Japan


• "Translingual Topic Tracking: Applying Lessons from the MEI Project", Gina-Anne Levow and Douglas W. Oard (2000), in Working Notes of the Topic Detection and Tracking Workshop (TDT-2000), November 16-17, 2000, Gaithersburg, MD.


• "TREC-9 Experiments at Maryland: Interactive CLIR", Douglas W. Oard, Gina-Anne Levow, Clara I. Cabezas (2000) in Proceedings of  the Ninth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-9), NIST Special Publication 500-250, November 13-16, 2000, Gaithersburg, MB, pp. 543-549.


• "CLEF Experiments at the University of Maryland: Statistical Stemming and Backoff Translation  Strategies", Douglas W. Oard, Gina-Anne Levow, Clara I. Cabezas (2001) in Cross-Language Information Retrieval and Evaluation, Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2000, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2000, Revised Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 2069, Carol Peters (ed.), pp. 176-187.


• "Translingual Topic Tracking with PRISE", Gina-Anne Levow and Douglas W. Oard (2000) in Working Notes of the Topic Detection and Tracking  (TDT-3) Workshop, February 28-March 2, 2000, Tysons Corner, VA.

Working Papers and Technical Reports

• "Local Rhyme-based Acoustic Features for Mandarin Tone Recognition", Dinoj Surendran and Gina-Anne Levow (2006) University of Chicago, Computer Science Technical Report, TR-2006-05.


• "Additional Cues for Mandarin Tone Recognition", Dinoj Surendran and Gina-Anne Levow (2006) University of Chicago, Computer Science Technical Report, TR-2006-04.


• "Multi-modal Analysis of Interactional Rapport in Three Language/Cultural Groups", Susan Duncan, Gina-Anne Levow, Tizzian Baldenebro, Atoor Lawandow, HCD 2010.


• "Building a Chinese-English Mapping Between Verb Concepts for Multilingual Applications", Bonnie J. Dorr, Gina-Anne Levow, and Dekang Lin (2001) Technical Report: LAMP-TR-060/CS-TR-4205/UMIACS-TR-2001-01/MDA-9049-6C-1250, University of Maryland, College Park.


• "Mandarin-English Information (MEI): Investigating Translingual Speech Retrieval", Helen Meng, Berlin Chen, Erika Grams, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Gina-Anne Levow, Wai-Kit Lo, Douglas W. Oard, Patrick Schone, Hsin-min Wang, Jianqiang Wang (2000) Technical Report for Summer Workshop 2000. Johns Hopkins University, Center for Language and Speech Processing.


• " Large-Scale Construction of a Chinese-English Semantic Hierarchy",Bonnie J. Dorr, Gina-Anne Levow, and Dekang Lin (2000) Technical Report: LAMP-TR-040/UMIACS-TR-2000-17/CS-TR-4120/MDA-9049-6C-1250, University of Maryland, College Park


• " Chinese-English Semantic Resource Construction",Bonnie Dorr, Gina-Anne Levow, Dekang Lin, and Scott Thomas (2000) Technical Report: LAMP-TR-044/UMIACS-TR-2000-37/CS-TR-4146/MDA-9049-6C-1250, University of Maryland, College Park,


• "Signal Boosting for Translingual Topic Tracking: Document Expansion and n-best Translation. ", Gina-Anne Levow, and Douglas W. Oard (2000) Technical Report: LAMP-TR-049//UMIACS-TR-2000-42/CS-TR-4151/MDA-9049-6C-1250, University of Maryland, College Park.


• " Evaluating Lexicon Coverage for Cross-Language Information Retrieval", Gina-Anne Levow, and Douglas W. Oard (2000) Technical Report: LAMP-TR-050//UMIACS-TR-2000-43/CS-TR-4152/MDA-9049-6C-1250, University of Maryland, College Park.


• "Corpus-Based Techniques for Word Sense Disambiguation", Gina-Anne Levow (1997) MIT AI Lab, AI Memo 1637.


• "Tense and Subject Position in Interrogatives and Negatives in Child French: Evidence For and Against Truncated Structure", Gina-Anne Levow (1995) MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 26 Papers on Language Acquisition and Processing, September '95.

• Summer 2010. Siwei Wang, "Improving Tone Recognition with Nucleus Modeling and Sequential Learning ", UChicago, CS.
• Winter 2008. Irina Matveeva, "Generalized Latent Semantic Analysis for Document Representation", UChicago, CS.
• Autumn 2007. Dinoj Surendran, " Analysis and Automatic Recognition of Tones in Mandarin Chinese", UChicago, CS.

• Current. Daniel McCloy, UW, Linguistics.
• Current. Valerie Freeman, UW, Linguistics.
• Spring 2009. CHIA Kee Tiah, "Lattice-based Statistical Spoken Document Retrieval", National University of Singapore, CS, external examiner.
• Winter 2009. Fang Liu, "Intonation Systems of Mandarin and English: A Functional Approach", UChicago, Linguistics.
• Winter 2007. Yu Hu, "Topics in Unsupervised Language Learning", UChicago, CS.
• Summer 2006. Zhimin Xie, "Acoustic-Based Broad Class Phoneme Detection", UChicago, CS.
• Autumn 2005. Xiaofei He, "Locality Preserving Projections", UChicago, CS.

• Current. Leanne Rolston, UW, CLMS
• Current. Maria Alexandropoulou, UW, CLMS
• Current. Chad Mills, UW, CLMS
• Autumn 2012. Sergei Lushtak, Unsupervised Morphology, UW, CLMS
• Winter 2012. Stella Podgornik, "Automatic Detection of Language Levels in L2 English Learners", UW, CLMS.
• Summer 2008. Sonjia Waxmonsky, "Topic Summarization for Multiparty Meetings", UChicago, CS.
• Spring 2007. Bradley Boven, "Approaches and Issues in Dialog Act Tagging", co-advisor with John Goldsmith, UChicago, CS.
• Autumn 2005. Siwei Wang, "Improving Tone Recognition with Combined Pitch and Intensity Modeling", UChicago, CS.

• Spring 2005. Aren Jansen, "The Manifold Nature of Vowel Sounds", UChicago, CS.
• Spring 2005. Zhimin Xie, "An Acoustic Feature Based Vowel Detector", UChicago, CS.
• Spring 2004. Irina Matveeva, "Text representation with the locality preserving projection algorithm for information retrieval tasks", co-advisor with Partha Niyogi, UChicago, CS.
• Spring 2004. Leandro Cortes, "An algorithm for fast detection and tracking of small events", UChicago, CS.
• Autumn 2003. Dinoj Surendran, " The Functional Load of Phonological Contrasts", UChicago, CS.
• Autumn 2002. Oleg Pashko, "Detecting Vowel Nasal Transitions in Continuous Speech", UChicago, CS.

• Current: Megan Galloway, To Hyunh, uRobert Komjathy, Rachel Stuart, Lauren Wang


• [2012] David Cronkite, Ciaran Dougherty, Justin Kauhl, Thibaut Labarre, Christa Mowry, David Witting


• [2011] Sumithra Bhakthavatsalam, Nathan Imse, Joshua Lutes


• [2010] Cuijun Wu

• Member of International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) 1999-current
• Member of Association for Computational Linguistics, 1998-current

Languages:
Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, French

Citizenship:
USA