Gina-Anne Levow

 

 

 

Linguistics Department
University of Washington
Box 352425
Guggenhein 418B
Seattle, WA 98185 USA

+1-206-616-5728 [Voice]
+1-206-685-7978 [Fax]

levow at uw dot edu
http://faculty.washington.edu/levow

 



Education

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

Master's Degree in Computer Science, MIT, February 1993.
  • Master's Thesis: A Discourse-Neutral Prosodic Phrasing System for Mandarin Chinese
Mandarin Training Center, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan,R.O.C., Nov. 1989 - Aug. 1990.

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.

 



Employment

University of Washington:

  • September, 2014- current: Associate Professor, Linguistics Department
  • September, 2010- 2014: 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)
Chinese University of Hong Kong, New Territories, HK: January 17 to March 1, 2001
  • 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
Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Inc., Chelmsford, MA: Summer 1994, January 1994, Summer 1993
  • Speech Group Summer Intern, Contractor
Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence: Summer 1991, Summer 1992
  • Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C.
  • ONR Graduate Intern

Grants

PI: (2018-current)"STREAMLInED: Shared Tasks for Rapid, Efficient Analysis of Many Languages in Emerging Documentation", NSF DEL-1760475, $124,985, with Emily M. Bender
  
PI: (2018-2019)"Transfer Learning Across Language Similarity Networks", DARPA HR0011-15-2-0043, $1,481,988, with subcontract to Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, UIUC.
  
PI: (2015-2018) "EL-STEC: Shared Task Evaluation Campaigns with Endangered Language Data." National Science Foundation. IIS-1500157, $49,997, with Emily Bender.
  
PI: (2013-2016) "EAGER: ATAROS: Automatic Tagging and Recognition of Stance." National Science Foundation. IIS-1351034, Robust Intelligence, $249,975. Co-PIs: Mari Ostendorf, Richard Wright.
  
Co-PI: (2013-2016) "The Use of Phonologically-Motivated Distinctive Features for Computational Acoustic Characterization of Dysarthric Speech". Hong Kong SAR Research Grants Council General Research Fund. PI: Helen Meng.
  
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: (2004-2009)"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.



Awards, Honors, and Fellowships

1990-1994Office of Naval Research Graduate Fellowship
  
1992Inducted Sigma Xi scientific research society
  
1989-1990Rotary Foundation Graduate Fellowship for International Understanding, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
  
1989Applied Science Award
  
1988Phi Beta Kappa, Penna Delta Chapter
  
1988Stuart Eichert, Jr. Memorial Prize, awarded each year to students at the end of their junior year in the Moore School who best demonstrate initiative, intellectual attainment, and commitment to the pro fessional practice of engineering.
  
1987Dean's Scholar, presented annually to Arts and Sciences students who exhibit exceptional academic performance and intellect ual promise.

Teaching Experience
Tutorials: Competitive Review
  • Prosody: Models, Methods, and Applications, Nigel Ward, Gina-Anne Levow, ACL-IJCNLP 2021

Invited Tutorials
  • July 2015: Workshop Tutorial Instructor - Discourse, 2015 Jelinek Summer Workshop on Speech and Language Technology

  • 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.

Tutorials: Online Series
University Courses

Additional Teaching Activities
  • May 17, 2023, Guest Lecture, LING 575: Language Technologies for Crisis Response (LT4CR), "Automatic Speech Recognition for Low-Resource Languages"
  • November 1, 2022, Panelist for faculty meet-and-greet, Pro-seminar, LING 599B
  • November 2, 2021, Panelist for faculty panel on "Lifecycle of a research project", LING 599B
  • September 23, 2016. "Balancing Teaching and Research", UW Department of Linguistics TA Training Workshop, 2016.


Invited Talks

  • November 25, 2019. "Leveraging High-Resource Languages to Improve Low-Resource Language Processing", Department of Linguistics Colloquium, Boston University.

  • September 13, 2019. "Transfer Learning Across Language Similarity Networks: University of Washington/UIUC", with Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Katrin Kirchhoff, Angli Liu, Camille Goudeseune, Leda Sari, Wenda Chen, Aidan Babb, Agatha Downey, Erica Gardner, Christopher Haberland, Shannon Ladymon, Leanne Rolston, Avijit Vajpayee, Jonathon Vogel, at LORELEI PI Meeting, Arlington, VA.

  • March 28, 2019. "UW/UIUC: Accomplishments to Date", with Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Camille Goudeseune, Chris Haberland, Leanne Rolston, Avijit Vajpayee, Katrin Kirchhoff, Angli Liu, at LORELEI PI Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

  • March 27, 2019. "UW/UIUC: Situation Frames", with Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Camille Goudeseune, Leanne Rolston, at LORELEI PI Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

  • March 27, 2019. "UW/UIUC Research Update: Enabling technologies", with Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Camille Goudeseune, Chris Haberland, Leanne Rolston, Avijit Vajpayee, at LORELEI PI Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

  • September 14, 2018. "Lessons Learned from Low Resource Languages: UW/UIUC", with Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Camille Goudeseune, Leanne Rolston, at LORELEI PI Meeting, Bloomington, MN.

  • September 13, 2018. "Situation Frames and MT: Text & Speech UW/UIUC", with Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Camille Goudeseune, Brian Moran, Leanne Rolston, at LORELEI PI Meeting, Bloomington, MN.

  • September 12, 2018. "UW/UIUC Research Update: Enabling technologies", with Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Katrin Kirchhoff, Angli Liu, Camille Goudeseune, Leanne Rolston, Jonathon Vogel, Van Hai Do, at LORELEI PI Meeting, Bloomington, MN.

  • March 21, 2018. "UW/UIUC Research Update: Enabling technologies", with Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Katrin Kirchhoff, Angli Liu, Camille Goudeseune, Leanne Rolston, Jonathon Vogel, Van Hai Do, at LORELEI PI Meeting, San Antonio, TX.

  • 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.

  • Workshop Participation: Faculty, Johns Hopkins Summer Workshop 2000
    • Mandarin-English Information (MEI) Project
    • Coordinated English-Mandarin query translation component for cross-language information retrieval


  • Professional Service

  • 2023-   Member of Working Group, Association for Computational Linguistics, Working Group on Authorship Policy

  • 2012-   Member of Board, Seattle Chapter of Applied Voice Input/Output Society (AVIOS).

  • 2006-   Secretary/Webmaster ACL SIGHAN, Special Interest Group on Chinese Language Processing.

  • ACADEMIC SERVICE: CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION

    • [2023] Area Chair: Dialogue and Interactive Systems: ACL 2023
    • [2023] Senior Program Committee member: AAAI 2023
    • [2022] Area Chair: Speech recognition and synthesis, spoken language understanding: COLING 2022

    • [2021] Co-organizer, (with Richard Wright), Special Session on Speech and Machines, at 181st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Dec 2021

    • [2021] Co-Program Chair, 22nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue

    • [2021] Co-Senior Area Chair: Dialog and Interactive Systems: ACL-IJCNLP 2021

    • [2021] Co-Program Chair, 4th West Coast NLP Summit, 2021

    • [2020] Co-Program Chair, 3rd West Coast NLP Summit, 2020

    • [2019] Co-organizer, Panel on Expression of Stance in Spoken Language, with Nigel Ward and Douglas Biber: International Pragmatics Association 2019

    • [2019] Area Chair: Resources and Evaluation: ACL 2019

    • [2019] Area Chair: Speech, Vision, Robotics, Multimodal and Grounding: EMNLP/IJCNLP 2019

    • [2018] Area Co-Chair, International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING) 2018

    • [2017] Area Chair: Summarization, Generation, Discourse, and Dialog: EMNLP 2017

    • [2017] Publicity Co-Chair, IJCNLP 2017

    • [2016] Co-organizer: EL-STEC 2016, Endangered Languages - Shared Task Evaluation, September 14-15, 2016, Seattle, WA.

    • [2015] Co-organizer: Advanced Crowdsourcing for Speech and Beyond, Special Session at Interspeech 2015

    • [2014] Panelist: Future directions in spoken dialog systems at REAL Challenge Workshop at ACL 2015, Baltimore, MD, June 2014

    • [2014] Mentor: REAL Challenge Workshop at ACL 2015, Baltimore, MD, June 2014

    • [2014] Co-Chair: Joint CIPS-SIGHAN Conference 2014

    • [2013] Co-organizer: Scaling Speech, Language Understanding and Dialogue through Crowdsourcing Workshop at Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing 2013

    • [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

  • ACADEMIC SERVICE: CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP REVIEWING:
    • [2023] Reviewer, ICASSP 2024

    • [2023] Reviewer, LREC-COLING 2024

    • [2023] Reviewer, IJCNLP-AACL, Student Research Workshop

    • [2023] Reviewer, Interspeech 2023

    • [2023] Reviewer, ICASSP 2023

    • [2022] Reviewer, ACL Rolling Review, December Cycle

    • [2022] Reviewer, AACL-IJCNLP 2022

    • [2022] Reviewer, ACL 2022

    • [2022] Reviewer, ICASSP 2022

    • [2022] Reviewer, NAACL 2022

    • [2022] Reviewer, LREC 2022

    • [2022] Reviewer, Interspeech 2022

    • [2022] Reviewer, ACL Rolling Review

    • 2021 Reviewer, ICASSP 2021

    • 2021 Reviewer, NAACL 2021

    • 2021 Reviewer, Interspeech 2021

    • 2020 Reviewer, ICASSP 2020

    • 2020 Reviewer, COLING 2020

    • 2020 Reviewer, Interspeech 2020

    • 2020 Reviewer, EACL 2020

    • 2020 Reviewer, EMNLP 2020

    • 2019 Reviewer, Interspeech 2019

    • 2018 Reviewer, Polysynthesis Workshop

    • 2017 Program committee, ACL 2017

    • 2017 Program committee, IJCNLP 2017

    • 2017 Scientific committee, AAAI Workshop on Crowdsourcing, Deep Learning and Articial Intelligence Agents

    • 2016 Reviewer, NW-NLP 2017

    • 2016 Program committee, ACL 2016

    • 2016 Scientific committee, Language Resources and Evaluation, 2016

    • 2015 Program committee, PACLIC 29

    • 2015 Reviewer, ACL-IJCNLP 2015

    • 2014 Program committee, PACLIC 28

    • 2014 Program Committee, Northwest NLP Workshop 2014

    • 2014 Reviewer, ACL

    • 2014 Reviewer, Coling 2014

    • 2014 Scientific committee, LREC

    • 2014 Program committee, SIGHAN-7

    • 2013 Reviewer for EMNLP 2013

    • 2013 Reviewer for IJNCLP 2013

    • 2013 Program Committee, SIGHAN-7
    • 2013 Program Committee, PACLIC 2013

    • 2013 Reviewer for Demonstrations, NAACL 2013

    • 2012 Program Committee, TextGraphs 2012

    • 2012 Program Committee, PACLIC 2012

    • 2012 Reviewer for ACL 2012

    • 2012 Reviewer for LREC 2012

    • 2011 Reviewer for ACL 2011

    • 2011 Reviewer for IJCNLP 2011

    • 2010 Reviewer for ACL 2010

    • 2010 Reviewer for EMNLP 2010

    • 2010 Reviewer for COLING 2010

    • 2009 Program Committee, PACLIC 2009

    • 2009 Program Committee, NEWS 2009

    • 2009 Program Committee, SIGIR 2009 Workshop on "Information Access in a Multilingual World"

    • 2009 Program Committee, Workshop on Semi-Supervised Learning for Natural Language Processing at NAACL HLT 2009

    • 2009 Reviewer for EMNLP 2009

    • 2008 Program Committee, NEWS 2008

    • 2008 Program Committee, AIRS 2008

    • 2008 Program Committee, SIGHAN 2008

    • 2008 Reviewer for Speech Prosody 2008

    • 2007 Program Committee, SIGIR 2007

    • 2007 Reviewer for ACL 2007

    • 2007 Reviewer for NAACL 2007

    • 2006 Program Committee, AIRS 2006

    • 2006 Program Committee, SIGHAN 2006

    • 2006 Program Committee, Midwest Computational Linguistics Colloquium 2006

    • 2006 Program Committee, International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (ICCPOL) 2006

    • 2006 Reviewer for NAACL 2006

    • 2006 Reviewer for EACL 2006

    • 2005 Program Committee, Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU) 2005

    • 2005 Reviewer for ACL 2005

    • 2004 Program Committee, AIRS 2004

    • 2004 Program Committee, Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2004

    • 2004 Reviewer for COLING 2004

    • 2004 Reviewer for IJCNLP 2004

    • 2004 Reviewer for Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing

    • 2003 Program Committee, SIGIR 2003

    • 2003 Program Committee, Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2003

    • 2003 Reviewer for NAACL 2003

    • 2002 Program Committee, Association for Computational Linguistics 2002 Workshop on Effective Tools and Methodologies for Teaching NLP and CL

    • 2002 Reviewer for Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing

    • 2002 Reviewer for SIGIR 2002

    • 2001 Scientific Committee, ISCA Workshop on Prosody in Automatic Speech Recognition

    • 2000 Reviewer for NAACL 2000

    • 2000 Reviewer for EACL 2000

    ACADEMIC SERVICE: EDITORIAL SERVICE:

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

    • 2003-2005 Member of Editorial Board: Computational Linguistics

    ACADEMIC SERVICE: JOURNAL REVIEWING
    • 2023 Reviwer, APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing

    • 2022 Reviewer, Journal of Natural Language Engineering

    • 2022 Speech Communication

    • 2021 Speech Communication

    • 2020 Speech Communication

    • 2020 Computational Linguistics

    • 2019 Computer Speech and Language

    • 2018 Reviewer, Journal of Natural Language Engineering

    • 2017 Reviewer, Journal of Acoustical Society of America

    • 2015 Reviewer, Speech Communication

    • 2015 Reviewer, Language Resources and Evaluation

    • 2015 Reviewer, Computer Speech and Language

    • 2015 Reviewer, ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP)

    • 2014 Reviewer, Computer Speech and Language

    • 2014 Reviewer, Speech Communication

    • 2014 Reviewer, Cognitive Science

    • 2014 Reviewer, Journal of Phonetics

    • 2014 Reviewer for Speech Communication

    • 2014 Reviewer for Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics

    • 2014 Reviewer for Transactions on Information Systems

    • 2014 Reviewer for Phonology

    • 2013 Reviewer for Phonology

    • 2013 Reviewer for Speech Communication

    • 2013 Reviewer for AI Communications

    • 2013 Reviewer for Computational Linguistics

    • 2012 Reviewer for Speech Communication

    • 2012 Reviewer for Computational Linguistics

    • 2011 Reviewer for Speech Communication

    • 2011 Reviewer for Journal of Phonetics

    • 2010 Reviewer for Anthrozoos

    • 2010 Reviewer for The Linguistic Review

    • 2009 Reviewer for IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing

    • 2009 Reviewer for Speech Communication

    • 2009 Reviewer for Computational Linguistics

    • 2006 Reviewer for ACM Transactions in Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP)

    • 2008 Reviewer for Speech Communication

    • 2008 Reviewer for Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

    • 2008 Reviewer for Language and Speech

    • 2008 Reviewer for Journal of the Acoustic Society of America

    • 2008 Reviewer for Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research

    • 2007 Reviewer for ACM Transactions in Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP)

    • 2007 Reviewer for Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

    • 2007 Reviewer for Speech Communication

    • 2007 Reviewer for Computer Speech and Language

    • 2006 Reviewer for ACM Transactions in Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP)

    • 2006 Reviewer for Speech Communication

    • 2006 Reviewer for Computational Linguistics

    • 2005 Reviewer for Speech Communication

    • 2005 Reviewer for Computational Linguistics

    • 2004 Reviewer for Speech Communication

    • 2003 Reviewer for Human Computer Interaction

    • 2003 Reviewer for Computational Linguistics

    • 2003 Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)

    • 2001 Reviewer for Computational Linguistics

    • 1999 Reviewer for ACM Computing Surveys

    • Reviewer for Information Processing and Management

    ACADEMIC SERVICE: FUNDING AGENCY REVIEWING
    • 2023 (October) Review Panelist for National Science Foundation

    • 2023 (April) Review Panelist for National Science Foundation

    • 2023 External Reviewer, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

    • 2020 External Reviewer, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

    • 2020 Review Panelist for National Science Foundation

    • 2018 Review Panelist for National Science Foundation

    • 2015 Ad-hoc Reviewer for National Science Foundation

    • 2014 Review Panelist for National Science Foundation

    • 2013 Ad-hoc Reviewer for National Science Foundation

    • 2007 Review Panelist for National Science Foundation

    • 2005 Review Panelist for National Science Foundation

    • 2003 Review Panelist for National Science Foundation


    SERVICE at UW
    • [2024] Member, Promotion Committee, Laura McGarrity

    • [2024] Member, Review Committee for Dean of Information School
    • [2023] Member, Tenure & Promotion Committee, Naja Ferjan Ramirez

    • [2022-2023] Co-Chair, Non-Anglophone Humanities Data Science Search Committee

    • [2022] Member, CLMS Admissions Committee

    • [2021] Member, CLMS Admissions Committee

    • [SPR, SUM 2021] Acting Faculty Director, CLMS

    • [2020-2021] Member, Phonology Search Committee

    • [2021] Member, NLT Certificate Admissions Committee

    • [2020] Member, 5-year Departmental Chair Review Committee

    • [AUT 2020] Reviewer, Royalty Research Fund

    • [May 6, 2019] Presenter, American Chambers of Commerce visit to UW Department of Linguistics

    • [2018-2019] Chair, Computational Linguistics Search Committee

    • [2018] CLMS Admissions Committee

    • [2017] Reviewer, Royalty Research Fund

    • [12/16/2016-6/15/2017] Acting Faculty Director, CLMS

    • [2014-2015] Member, Language Acquisition Search Committee

    • [2014-2017] Member, Faculty Council on Research

    • [3/16/2014-9/15/2014] Acting Faculty Director, CLMS

    • [2013] Member, Graduate Excellence Award Committee

    • [2010-current] Co/Organizer, CLMS Graduation Planning meetings

    • [2010-2012, 2014, 2015] Admissions Committee, CLMA/CLMS

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

    • [2010] Reviewer, Royalty Research Fund

    Publications

    Journal Publications


    Journal Special Issue: Co-Guest Editor

    • Special Issue on Chinese Spell Checking. (Eds.) Lung-Hao Lee, Gina-Anne Levow, Chao-Lin Liu, Shih-Hung Wu. ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP), Volume 14 Issue 4, October 2015.

    Journal Special Issue: Invited Article

    • "Introduction to the Special Issue on Chinese Spell Checking", Lung-Hao Lee, Gina-Anne Levow, Shih-Hung Wu, Chao-Lin Liu. ACM Transactions on Asian and Low- Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP), Volume 14 Issue 4, October 2015.

    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, (2013).

    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. (2013

    • "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

    Workshop Publications: Full Paper Review

    Conference Publications: Invited Paper

    Conference Presentations: Abstract Review

    • "Pragmatic prominence in stance marking", Richard A. Wright, Mari Ostendorf, Valerie Freeman, Gina-Anne Levow, Sara Ng, at ALOES 2024.

    • "Investigating the acoustic fidelity of remote recording methods", Emily P. Ahn, William Bowers, Ella Deaton, Gina- Anne Levow, Sara Ng, Marina Oganyan, Robert Squizzero, Richard Wright, at the 182nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, May 2022.

    Workshop Publications: Abstract Review

    Workshop Presentations: Abstract Review

    • "Phonetic Granularity Effects on Forced Alignment Across Panăra and English", Emily Ahn, Eleanor Chodroff, Myriam Lapierre and Gina-Anne Levow, at 7th Workshop on Computational Methods for Endangered Languages, 2024.

    Working Notes for Shared Task Participation

    • "ELISA System Description for LoReHLT 2019", Bashar Alhafni, Justin Cho, Denis Emelin, Mozhdeh Gheini, Thamme Gowda, Ulf Hermjakob, Angelina McMillan-Major, Chenghao Mou,Michael Pust, Jonathan May, Karan Singla, Zhuohao Chen, Anil Ramakrishna,Ming-Chang Chiu, Victor Martinez, Nikolaos Malandrakis, Shrikanth Narayanan, Kenton Murray, Toan Q. Nguyen, Xing Jie Zhong, David Chiang, Ying Lin, Xiaoman Pan, Di Lu, Lifu Huang, Tongtao Zhang, Heng Ji, Ondrej Glembek, Murali Karthick Baskar, Santosh Kesiraju, Lukas Burget, Karel Benes, Igor Szoke, Karel Vesely, Jan “Honza” Cernocky, Camille Goudeseune, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Leda Sari, Wenda Chen, Gina-Anne Levow, Aidan Babb, Erica Gardner, Shannon Ladymon, Leanne Rolston, Avijit Vajpayee (2019), Working Notes of LoReHLT 2019.

    • "ELISA System Description for LoReHLT 2018", Ronald Cardenas, Thamme Gowda, Ulf Hermjakob,Nima Pourdamghani, Michael Pust, Jibiao Shen, Tian, Xie, Jonathan May, Nikolaos Malandrakis, Ruchir Travadi, Victor Martinez,Karan Singla, Colin Vaz, Shrikanth Narayanan, Kenton Murray, Toan Nguyen, David Chiang, Boliang Zhang, Xiaoman Pan, Ying Lin, Di Lu, LifuHuang, Tongtao Zhang, Kevin Blissett, Ni Zhang,Spencer Whitehead, Ananya Subburathinam, Diya Li,Qingyun Wang, Zhiying Jiang, Heng Ji, Ondrej Glembek, Murali Karthick Baskar, Santosh Kesiraju, Lukas Burget, Karel Benes, Igor Szoke, Karel Vesely, Jan “Honza” Cernocky, Derry Wijaya and Chris Callison-Burch, Hongzhi Xu, Charles Yang, Mitch Marcus, Brian Moran, Leanne Rolston, Gina-Anne Levow, Wenda Chen, Camille Goudeseune, Leda Sari, MarkHasegawa-Johnson, Working Notes of LoReHLT 2018.

    • "UWCL at MediaEval 2013: Similar Segments in Social Speech Task", Gina-Anne Levow (2013), Working Notes of MediaEval 2013, Barcelona, Spain.

    • "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, Hungary.

    • "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, Pre-prints, and Technical Reports

     



    Language Resources
    • LanguageNet Lexical resources , 2019, Gina-Anne Levow, Leanne Rolston, Jonathon Vogel, Katrin Kirchhoff.

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      Research Supervision:
      PHD STUDENTS - CHAIR OF THE READING COMMITTEE

      • Agatha Downey, Linguistics, co-chair with Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, current.

      • Emily P. Ahn, Linguistics, currrent.

      • Ajda Gokcen, Linguistics. Autumn 2021

      • Courtney Mansfield, Linguistics. Spring 2021

      • Leanne Rolston, Linguistics. Winter 2021

      • Rik Koncel-Kedziorski, Linguistics, co-chair with Hannaneh Hajishirzi (CSE), Completed 2019.

      • Chad Mills, Linguistics. Summer 2018

      PHD STUDENTS - MEMBER OF THE READING COMMITTEE

      • Sara Ng, Linguistics, current. (Co-Chairs, Richard Wright and Mari Ostendorf)

      • Gita Dhungana, Linguistics, current. (Chair, Emily Bender)

      • Angelina McMillan-Major, completed Summer 2023. (Chair, Emily Bender)

      • Olga Zamaraeva, Linguistics, completed Winter 2021. (Chair, Emily Bender)

      • Kristen Howell, Linguistics, completed Summer 2020. (Chair, Emily Bender)

      • Laura Panfili, Linguistics, completed Spring 2018. (Chair, Richard Wright)

      • Rachael Tatman, Linguistics, completed 2017. (Chair, Richard Wright)

      • Esther Le Gresauze, Linguistics, completed 2017. (Chair, Richard Wright)

      • Yuzong Liu, Electrical Engineering, completed 2016. (Chair, Katrin Kirchhoff).

      • Valerie Freeman, Linguistics, completed 2015. Interests: Phonetics, Sociolinguistics, Discourse. (Chair, Richard Wright)

      • Daniel McCloy, Linguistics, completed June 2013. Title: Prosody, intelligibility and familiarity in speech perception. (Chair, Richard Wright)

      PHD STUDENTS - GRADUATE SCHOOL REPRESENTATIVE

      • Jessie Loucks-Tavitas, Mathematics (Chair: Max Lieblich), current.

      • Will Kearns, Biomedical Informatics (Co-Chairs: Annie Chen, Trevor Cohn), Autumn 2022

      • James Ferguson, Computer Science (Chair: Hannaneh Hajishirzi), Autumn 2022

      • Mandar Joshi, Computer Science (Chair: Luke Zettlemoyer), Winter 2022

      • Elizabeth Clark, Computer Science (Chair: Noah Smith), Summer 2021

      • Hannah Rashkin, Computer Science (Chair: Yejin Choi), Spring 2020

      • Antoine Bosselut, Computer Science (Chair: Yejin Choi), Summer 2020

      • Minjoon Seo, Computer Science (Chair: Hannaneh Hajishirzi), Spring 2020

      • Mark Yatskar, Computer Science (Chair: Luke Zettlemoyer), Winter 2019

      • Luheng He, Computer Science (Chair: Luke Zettlemoyer), completed Spring 2018.

      • Chloe Kiddon, Computer Science (Co-chairs: Yejin Choi, Luke Zettlemoyer), Summer 2016.

      • Wen-wai Yim, Biomedical Health Informatics. (Chair: Meliha Yetisgen), Spring 2016

      • Yoav Artzi, Computer Science (Chair: Luke Zettlemoyer), Summer 2015

      • Shiri Azenkot, Computer Science, completed August 2014.

      MASTER'S STUDENTS - CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE

      • Edward X. Dong, Linguistics, CLMS.

      • Julia Mainzinger, Linguistics, CLMS.

      • Benjamin Ciaglo, Linguistics, CLMS, completed Summer 2023. Title: Developing a Framework for Metrics and Evaluation of the Impact of Acoustic-Prosodic Features in Synthesized Speech on Listener Perception in Dyadic Interactions

      • Hillel Steinmetz, Linguistics CLMS, completed Spring 2023. Title: Transfer Learning to Improve Dysarthric Speech Recognition with L2 Speech

      • Michael K. Scott, Linguistics CLMS, completed Winter 2023. Title: A Comparative Analysis of Transcription Errors from Major Commercial Automatic Speech Recognition Systems on Speakers of Four Ethnic Backgrounds in the Pacific Northwest

      • Arunachal Sen, Linguistics CLMS, completed 2021. Title: Classifying COVID-19 News on Sina Weibo

      • Jiani Chen, Linguistics CLMS, completed Summer 2020. Title: The acoustic cues at prosodic boundaries in Mandarin

      • Veljko Miljanic, Linguistics CLMS, completed 2020. Title: Using External Knowledge to Improve Brown Clustering

      • Sameer Arshad, Lingistics CLMS, completed Summer 2019. Title: Exploring Phone Recognition in Pre-verbal and Dysarthric Speech

      • Maria Alexandropoulou, Linguistics CLMS, completed Summer 2014. Title: Agreement/Disagreement detection and the role of linguistic coordination and conversational features

      • Leanne Rolston, Linguistics CLMS, completed Winter 2014. Title: An Independent Assessment of Phonetic Distinctive Feature Sets used to Model Pronunciation Variation

      • Anthony Gentile, Linguistics CLMS, completed Autumn 2013. Title: Investigation of sentence structure in domain adaptation for sentiment classification

      • Chad Mills, Linguistics CLMS, completed June 2013. Title: Learning Board Game Rules from an Instruction Manual

      • Sergei Lushtak, Linguistics CLMS, completed Autumn 2012. Title: Unsupervised Morphological Word Clustering

      • Stella Podgornik, Linguistics CLMS, completed Winter 2012. Title: Automatic Detection Of Language Levels in L2 English Learners

      MASTER'S STUDENTS - MEMBER OF THE COMMITTEE

      • Paul Lee, MS in Computer Science, UW Bothell, current. (Chair, Min Chen)

      • Yeonjin Cho, Electrical Engineering, completed Spring 2022 (Chair, Mari Ostendorf)

      • Benny Longwill, Linguistics CLMS, completed Autumn 2020. (Chair, Shane Steinert-Threlkeld)

      • Chih-Chan Tian, Linguistics CLMS, completed Autumn 2020. (Chair, Shane Steinert-Threlkeld)

      • Chuan Yi Chang, Linguistics CLMS, completed Winter 2018.

      • Yi Zhu, Linguistics CLMS, completed Summer 2017. (Chair, Fei Xia)

      • Claire Jaja, Linguistics CLMS, completed Autumn 2014. (Chair, Fei Xia)

      • Megan Schnieder, Linguistics CLMS, admitted Autumn 2010 (Chair, Emily Bender)

      MASTER'S STUDENTS - INTERNSHIP ADVISOR

      • Atharva Chopde, current
      • Libbey Brown, completed Summer 2023
      • Santi Pornavalai, completed Summer 2023
      • Isabel Durham, completed Spring 2023
      • Zoe Fang, completed Spring 2023
      • Glen Gong, completed Spring 2023
      • Rachel Hantz, completed Spring 2023
      • Levon Haroutunian, completed Spring 2023
      • David Luongo, completed Spring 2023
      • Sunny Singh, current
      • Connor Boyle, completed Summer 2022
      • Amy Chan, completed Spring 2022
      • Hanshu Ding, completed Summer 2022
      • Sanjana Sharma, completed Autumn 2022
      • Jimmy Bruno, completed Summer 2022
      • Qingyang Wang, completed Summer 2022
      • Devin Brown, completed Autumn 2021
      • Xena Grant, completed Summer 2021
      • Cody Kim, completed Summer 2021
      • Stevie Peterson, completed Summer 2021
      • Sarah Reid, completed Autumn 2021
      • Timothy Ressler, completed Spring 2022
      • Kevin Sanders, completed Spring 2021
      • Vincent Soesanto, completed Spring 2021
      • Graham Still, completed Summer 2020
      • Harita Kannan, completed Summer 2020
      • Marcus Martinez, completed Summer 2020
      • Cady Gansen, completed Summer 2020
      • Kim Dodds, completed Summer 2020
      • Wendy Du, completed Summer 2020
      • Mikaela Guerrero, completed Summer 2020
      • Sarah Gupta, completed Summer 2020
      • Vikash Kumar, completed Summer 2020
      • Lu Liu, completed Summer 2020
      • Shayne Mei, completed Summer 2020
      • David Nielsen, completed Summer 2020
      • Abdelrahman Baligh, completed Summer 2019
      • Xi Chen, completed Spring 2019
      • Abigail Emrey, completed Winter 2020
      • Michael Henderson, completed Spring 2020
      • Einar Alexander Horn, completed Summer 2019
      • Eric MacLachlan, completed Autumn 2022
      • Julia McAnallen, completed Summer 2019
      • Denise Mak, completed Summer 2020
      • Elijah Rippeth, completed Summer 2019
      • Alfredo Menendez Sancho, completed Autumn 2019
      • Meijing Tian, completed Winter 2019
      • Avijit Vajpayee, completed Summer 2019
      • Amina Venton, completed Spring 2021
      • Luke Willson, completed Summer 2019
      • Zoe Winkworth, completed Summer 2019
      • Xinyi Wu, completed Spring 2020
      • Ryan Aldrich, completed Summer 2014
      • Arjun Bhalla, completed Spring 2015
      • Melanie Bolla, completed Autumn 2014
      • Florian Braun, completed Autumn 2015
      • Matthew Calderwood, completed Autumn 2016
      • Steele Carter, completed Autumn 2014
      • Julian Chan, completed Winter 2015
      • Ceara Chewning, completed Summer 2015
      • Eric Garnick, completed Summer 2016
      • Clara Gordon, completed Summer 2014
      • ErikAnthony Harte, completed Winter 2015
      • Haotian He, completed Summer 2014
      • Alena Hrynkevich, completed Summer 2014
      • Chen-Chieh Hsu, completed Autumn 2014
      • Kathleen Kamali, completed Autumn 2014
      • Ruth Morrison, completed Autumn 2015
      • Joe Mulvey, completed Summer 2015
      • Jonggun Park, completed Summer 2014
      • Olga Whelan, completed Spring 2015
      • Marie-Renee Arend, completed Winter 2014
      • John Gilmer, completed Summer 2013
      • Megan Galloway, completed Winter 2013
      • To Hyunh, admitted Autumn 2011
      • Adam Ledyard, completed Autumn 2014
      • Rachel Stuart, completed Autumn 2014
      • Shannon Watanabe, completed Autumn 2013
      • Xiaosu Xue, completed Autumn 2016
      • Robert Komjathy, completed Winter 2013
      • Ka Yee Lun, completed Winter 2013
      • Ciaran Dougherty, completed Winter 2012
      • Justin Kauhl, completed Winter 2012
      • Christa Mowry, completed Winter 2012
      • David Cronkite, completed Summer 2012
      • Thibaut Labarre, completed Autumn 2012
      • David Witting, completed Summer 2012
      • Nathan Imse, completed Autumn 2011
      • Joshua Lutes, completed Autumn 2011
      • Suminthra Bhakthavatsalam, completed Winter 2011
      • Cuijun Wu, completed Autumn 2010

      PHD STUDENTS - EXTERNAL MEMBER OF THE READING COMMITTEE: non-UW

      • Elizabeth Nielsen, University of Edinburgh, Spring 2024
      • Mary Pietrowicz, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Autumn 2017
      • Ka Ho Wong (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Spring 2017
      • Georg Schlunz, North-West University, Computer Science, South Africa, Autumn 2013

      • CHIA Kee Tiah, National University of Singapore, Computer Science, completed Spring 2009. (Chair, Hwee Tou Ng)

      PHD STUDENTS: CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE: non-UW

      • Siwei Wang, University of Chicago (UChicago), Computer Science, completed Summer 2010. Title: Improving Tone Recognition with Nucleus Modeling and Sequential Learning

      • Irina Matveeva, UChicago, Computer Science, completed Winter 2008. (Co-chair with Partha Niyogi) Title: Generalized Latent Semantic Analysis for Document Representation

      • Dinoj Surendran, UChicago, Computer Science, completed Autumn 2007. Title: Analysis and Automatic Recognition of Tones in Mandarin Chinese

      PHD STUDENTS - MEMBER OF THE READING COMMITTEE: non-UW

      • Fang Liu, UChicago, Linguistics, completed Winter 2009. (Chair, Alan Yu)

      • Yu Hu, UChicago, Computer Science, completed Winter 2007. (Chair, John Goldsmith)

      • Zhimin Xie, UChicago, Computer Science, completed Summer 2006. (Chair, Partha Niyogi)

      • Xiaofei He, UChicago, Computer Science, completed Autumn 2005. (Chair, Partha Niyogi)

      MASTER'S STUDENTS: CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE: non-UW

      • Sonjia Waxmonsky, UChicago, Computer Science, completed Summer 2008. Title: Topic Summarization for Multiparty Meetings

      • Bradley Boven, UChicago, Computer Science, completed Spring 2007. (Co-chair with John Goldsmith) Title: Approaches and Issues in Dialog Act Tagging

      • Siwei Wang, UChicago, Computer Science, completed Autumn 2005. Title: Improving Tone Recognition with Combined Pitch and Intensity Modeling

      • Irina Matveeva, UChicago, Computer Science, completed Spring 2004. (Co-chair with Partha Niyogi). Title: Text representation with the locality preserving projection algorithm for information retrieval tasks

      MASTER'S STUDENTS: MEMBER OF THE READING COMMITTEE: Non-UW

      • Aren Jansen, UChicago, Computer Science, completed Spring 2005. (Chair, Partha Niyogi)

      • Zhimin Xie, UChicago, Computer Science, completed Spring 2005. (Chair, Partha Niyogi)

      • Leandro Cortes, UChicago, Computer Science, completed Spring 2004. (Chair, Yali Amit)

      • Dinoj Surendran, UChicago, Computer Science, completed Autumn 2003. (Chair, Partha Niyogi)

      • Oleg Pashko, UChicago, Computer Science, completed Autumn 2002. (Chair, Partha Niyogi)


      Professional Societies
      • Member of IEEE, 2014-current
      • 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