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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 |
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PI: (2018-2019) | "Transfer Learning Across Language Similarity Networks", DARPA HR0011-15-2-0043, $1,481,988, with subcontract to Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, UIUC. |
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PI: (2015-2018) | "EL-STEC: Shared Task Evaluation
Campaigns with Endangered Language Data." National Science Foundation.
IIS-1500157, $49,997, with Emily Bender. |
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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. |
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Investigator: (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. |
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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) |
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PI: (2007-2008) | "Multimodal Discourse Investigation with SIDGrid",
University of Chicago Academic Technology Innovation Program, $40,000. |
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PI: (2004-2009) | "Learning Tone", National Science Foundation,
IIS-0414919, Human Language and Communication (HLC), $319,500. |
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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
1990-1994 | Office of Naval Research Graduate Fellowship |
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1992 | Inducted Sigma Xi scientific research society |
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1989-1990 | Rotary Foundation Graduate Fellowship for International Understanding, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. |
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1989 | Applied Science Award |
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1988 | Phi Beta Kappa, Penna Delta Chapter |
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1988 | Stuart 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. |
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1987 | Dean'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
- Spring 2024 LING575: Topics in Computational Linguistics: Speech Technology for Endangered Languages, UW.
- Spring 2024 LING573: Natural Language Processing: Systems and Applications, UW.
- Winter 2024 LING571: Deep Processing Techniques for Natural Language Processing, UW.
- Spring 2023 LING575: Topics in Computational Linguistics: Speech Technology for Endangered Languages, UW.
- Spring 2023 LING573: Natural Language Processing: Systems and Applications, UW.
- Winter 2023 LING571: Deep Processing Techniques for Natural Language Processing, UW.
- Spring 2023 LING575: Topics in Computational Linguistics: Speech Technology for Endangered Languages, UW.
- Spring 2023 LING573: Natural Language Processing: Systems and Applications, UW.
- Winter 2022 LING571: Deep Processing Techniques for Natural Language Processing, UW.
- Spring 2022 LING575: Topics in Computational Linguistics: Speech Technology for Endangered Languages, UW.
- Spring 2022 LING573: Natural Language Processing: Systems and Applications, UW.
- Winter 2021 LING571: Deep Processing Techniques for Natural Language Processing, UW.
- Spring 2021 LING575: Topics in Computational Linguistics: Speech Technology for Endangered Languages, UW.
- Spring 2021 LING573: Natural Language Processing: Systems and Applications, UW.
- Winter 2020 LING571: Deep Processing Techniques for Natural Language Processing, UW.
- Spring 2020 LING575: Topics in Computational Linguistics: Speech Technology for Endangered Languages, UW.
- Spring 2020 LING573: Natural Language Processing: Systems and Applications, UW.
- Winter 2019 LING575: Topics in Computational Linguistics: Spoken Dialog Systems, UW.
- Winter 2019 LING572: Advanced Statistical Methods for Natural Language Processing, UW.
- Spring 2019 LING573: Natural Language Processing: Systems and Applications, UW.
- Spring 2017 LING575: Topics in Computational Linguistics: Spoken Dialog Systems, UW.
- Spring 2017 LING573: Natural Language Processing: Systems and Applications, UW.
- Winter 2017 LING571: Deep Processing Techniques for Natural Language Processing, UW
- Spring 2016 LING575: Topics in Computational Linguistics: Spoken Dialog Systems, UW.
- Spring 2016 LING573: Natural Language Processing: Systems and Applications, UW.
- Winter 2016 LING571: Deep Processing Techniques for Natural Language Processing, UW
- Spring 2015 LING575: Topics in Computational Linguistics: Spoken Dialog Systems, UW.
- Spring 2015 LING573: Natural Language Processing: Systems and Applications, UW.
- Winter 2015 LING571: Deep Processing Techniques for Natural Language Processing, UW
- Spring 2014 LING575: Topics in Computational Linguistics: Sentiment, Subjectivity, and Stance, UW.
- Spring 2014 LING573: Natural Language Processing: Systems and Applications, UW.
- Winter 2014 LING571: Deep Processing Techniques for Natural Language Processing, UW
- Spring 2013 LING575: Topics in Computational Linguistics: Spoken Dialog Systems, UW.
- Spring 2013 LING573: Natural Language Processing: Systems and Applications, UW.
- Winter 2012 LING575: Topics in Computational Linguistics: Spoken Dialog , UW
- Winter 2012 LING572: Advanced Statistical Methods in Natural Language Processing, UW
- Autumn 2011 LING570: Shallow Processing Techniques for Natural Language Processing, UW
- Spring 2011 LING573: Natural Language Processing: Systems and Applications, UW
- Spring 2011 LING575: Topics in Computational Linguistics, UW
- Winter 2011 LING571: Deep Processing Techniques for Natural Language Processing, UW
- Winter 2008 CMSC 35100: Natural Language Processing, UChicago
- Winter 2008 CMSC 25000: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, UChicago
- Autumn 2007 CMSC 16100: Honors Introduction to Computer Science, UChicago
- Winter 2007 CMSC 25000: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, UChicago
- Autumn 2006 CMSC 35900: Topics in Artificial Intelligence: Discourse & Dialogue, UChicago
- Autumn 2006 CMSC 16100: Honors Introduction to Computer Science, UChicago
- Winter 2006 CMSC 35100: Natural Language Processing, UChicago
- Winter 2006 CMSC 25000: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, UChicago
- Autumn 2005 CMSC 10500: Fundamentals of Computer Programming I, UChicago
- Winter 2005 CMSC 25000: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, UChicago
- Autumn 2004 CMSC 35900: Topics in Artificial Intelligence: Discourse & Dialogue, UChicago
- Autumn 2004 CMSC 10500: Fundamentals of Computer Programming I, UChicago
- Spring 2004 CSPP 51080: Structure and Interppretation of Computer Programs, UChicago
- Winter 2004 CSPP 56553: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, UChicago
- Winter 2004 CMSC 25000: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, UChicago
- Spring 2003 CMSC 35100: Natural Language Processing, UChicago
- Winter 2003 CMSC 25000: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, UChicago
- Autumn 2002 CMSC 11500: Introduction to Computer Programming I, UChicago
- Winter 2002 CMSC 25000: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, UChicago
- Autumn 2001 CMSC 35900: Topics in Artificial Intelligence: Discourse & Dialogue, UChicago
- Summer 2001 LBSC 690: Information Technology, University of Maryland, College Park
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
- April 11, 2024. "Leveraging Models from High-Resource Languages in Speech Processing for Endangered Language Data", Informatics, University of Edinburgh.
- 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, C.M. 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
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- 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, Review Committee for Dean of Information School
- [2024] Member, CLMS Admissions Committee
- [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
- Investigating the Acoustic Fidelity of Vowels across Remote Recording Methods, Marina Oganyan, Gina-Anne Levow, Rob Squizzero,
Emily P. Ahn, Sara Ng, Richard A. Wright. (Accepted for publication, 2024),
Linguistics Vanguard.
- "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, 2012.
- "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.
Journal Special Issue: Co-Guest Editor
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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
- < href="https://www.isca-archive.org/interspeech_2024/ahn24d_interspeech.html">" The Use of Phone Categories and Cross-Language Modeling for Phone Alignment of Panara", Emily P. Ahn, Gina-Anne Levow, Eleanor Chodroff, Myrian Lapierre, in Interspeech 2024, 2024.
- "Investigating the Influence of Stance-Taking on Conversational Timing of Task-Oriented Speech", Sara Ng, Gina-Anne Levow, Richard A. Wright, Mari Ostendorf. (2024) in Interspeech 2024, 2024.
- Effects of Information Load and Pragmatic Load on the
Hypo-Hyper Continuum, Sara Ng, Valerie Freeman, Gina-Anne Levow, Mari Ostendorf, Richard Wright, Fonetik 2024, 2024. 6 pages.
- "An Outlier Analysis of Vowel Formants from a Corpus Phonetics Pipeline", Emily P. Ahn, Gina-Anne Levow, Richard A. Wright, Eleanor Chodroff, in Proceedings of Interspeech 2023, 2023.
- "Revisiting Parity of
Human vs. Machine Conversational Speech Transcription", Courtney Mansfield, Sara Ng, Gina-Anne Levow, Richard Wright and Mari Ostendorf, in Proceedings of Interspeech 2021, 2021.
- "Pardon the Interruption: An Analysis of Gender and Turn-Taking in U.S. Supreme Court Oral Arguments", Haley Lepp and Gina-Anne Levow, in Proceedings of Interspeech 2020, 2020.
- "Automatic Identification of Basic-Level Categories", Chad Mills, Francis Bond, and Gina-Anne Levow, in the 9th Global WordNet Conference, 2018.
- "Exploring Dynamic Measures of
Stance in Spoken Interaction", Gina-Anne Levow and Richard A. Wright, in Proceedings of Interspeech 2017, 2017.
- "Experiences with Shared Resources for Research and Education in Speech and Language Processing", Rebecca Bates, Eric Fosler-Lussier, Florian Metze, Martha Larson, Gina-Anne Levow and Emily Mower Provost, in Proceedings of Interspeech 2016, 2016 .
- "Development of a Cantonese dysarthric speech corpus", Ka Ho Wong, Yu Ting Yeung, Edwin H. Y. Chan, Patrick C. M. Wong, Gina-Anne Levow, Helen Meng, in Proceedings of Interspeech 2015, 329-333, 2015.
- "Investigating the role of `yeah' in stance-dense conversation", Valerie Freeman, Gina-Anne Levow, Richard Wright, Mari Ostendorf, in Proceedings of Interspeech 2015, 3076-3080, 2015.
- "Manipulating stance and involvement using
collaborative tasks: An exploratory comparison", Valerie Freeman, Julian Chan, Gina-Anne Levow, Richard Wright, Mari Ostendorf, Victoria Zayats, in Proceedings of Interspeech 2014, 2014.
- "Relating automatic vowel space estimates to talker intelligibility", Yi Luan, Mari Ostendorf, Richard Wright, Gina-Anne Levow, in Proceedings of Interspeech 2014, 2014.
- "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.
- "Cross-cultural Investigation of Prosody in Verbal Feedback in Interactional Rapport", Gina-Anne Levow, Susan Duncan, and Edward King, in Proceedings of Interspeech 2010, p. 286-289.
- "Assessing Context and Learning for isiZulu Tone Recognition", Gina-Anne Levow, in Proceedings of 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, in Proceedings of Interspeech 2008, 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
- "Fine-Tuning ASR models for Very Low-Resource Languages: A Study on Mvskoke", Julia Mainzinger and Gina-Anne Levow, in Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop), pages 170-176, 2024.
- "TEII: Think, Explain, Interact and Iterate with Large Language Models to Solve Cross-lingual Emotion Detection", Long Cheng, Qihao Shao, Christine Zhao, Sheng Bi, and Gina-Anne Levow, in Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment, & Social Media Analysis, pages 495-504, Bangkok, 2024.
- "Effectiveness of Scalable Monolingual Data and Trigger Words Prompting on Cross-Lingual Emotion Detection Task", Yao-Fei Cheng, Jeongyeob Hong, Andrew Wang, Anita Silva, and Gina-Anne Levow, in Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment, & Social Media Analysis, pages 511-522, 2024.
- "WU_TLAXE at WASSA 2024 Explainability for Cross-Lingual Emotion in Tweets Shared Task 1: Emotion through Translation using TwHIN-BERT and GPT", Jon Davenport, Keren Ruditsky, Anna Batra, Yulha Lhawa, and Gina-Anne Levow, in Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment, & Social Media Analysis, pages 523-527, 2024.
- "Assessing Pre-Built Speaker Recognition Models for Endangered
Language Data", Gina-Anne Levow, in Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Meeting
of the Special Interest Group
on Under-resourced Languages
a Satellite Workshop of LREC-COLING 2024, 2024
- "Investigating Speaker Diarization of Endangered Language Data", Gina-Anne Levow, in Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages, pages 38–43. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023.
- "A Masked Segmental Language Model for Unsupervised Natural Language Segmentation", C.M. Downey, Fei Xia, Gina-Anne Levow, and Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, in Proceedings of the 19th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, pages 39–50, Seattle, Washington. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2022
- " Developing a Shared Task for Speech
Processing on Endangered Languages"
Gina-Anne Levow, Emily Ahn and Emily M. Bender, in Proceedings of 4th Workshop on the Use of Computational
Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages, 2021.
- "Discovering Phonesthemes with Sparse Regularization".Nelson F. Liu, Gina-Anne Levow, and Noah A. Smith, in Proceedings of the NAACL Workshop on Subword and Character-Level Models in Natural Language Processing, New Orleans, LA, 2018.
- "STREAMLInED Challenges: Aligning Research Interests with Shared Tasks", Gina-Anne Levow, Emily M. Bender, Patrick Littell, Kristen Howell, Shobhana Chelliah,
Joshua Crowgey, Dan Garrette, Je Good Sharon Hargus, David Inman, Michael
Maxwell, Michael Tjalve, Fei Xia, in ComputEL-2, 2016.
- "Analysis of Dysarthric Speech using Distinctive Feature Recognition", Ka-Ho Wong, Yu Ting Yeung, Patrick C. M. Wong, Gina-Anne Levow and Helen Meng, in Proceedings of 6th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies, 2015.
- "CMILLS: Adapting Semantic Role Labeling Features to Dependency Parsing", Chad Mills and Gina-Anne Levow, in Proceedings of SEMEVAL 2015, 2015.
- "Recognition of
Stance Strength and Polarity in Spontaneous Speech", Gina-Anne Levow, Valerie Freeman, Alena Hrynkevich, Mari Ostendorf,
Richard Wright, Julian Chan, Yi Luan, Trang Tran, in Proceedings of
SLT-2014, 6 pages, 2014.
- "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.
- "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.
- "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.
- " 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.
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.
"The prosody of negative ‘yeah’", Valerie Freeman, Richard Wright, Gina-Anne Levow, Linguistics Society of America, 2015.
Workshop Publications: Abstract Review
- Promoting Language Technology for Endangered Languages with Shared Tasks, Gina-Anne Levow, at International Conference Language Technologies for All (LT4All), 2019.
- "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.
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, Lifu Huang, 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
- "A Masked
Segmental Language Model for Unsupervised Natural Language Segmentation", C.M. Downey, Fei Xia, Gina-Anne Levow, Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, arXiv:2104.07829, 2021.
- "Fast transcription of speech in low-resource languages", Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Camille Goudeseune, Gina-Anne Levow, arXiv:1909.07285, 2019
- "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.
Language Resources
- LanguageNet Lexical resources , 2019, Gina-Anne Levow, Leanne Rolston, Jonathon Vogel, Katrin Kirchhoff.
Research Supervision:
PHD STUDENTS - CHAIR OF THE READING COMMITTEE
- Emily P. Ahn, Linguistics, currrent.
- Siyu Liang, Linguistics, co-chair with Richard A. Wright, current.
- C.M. Downey, Linguistics, co-chair with Shane Steinert-Threlkeld. Spring 2024. Title: Adapting Pre-Trained Models and Leveraging Targeted Multilinguality for Under-Resourced and Endangered Language Processing.
- Ajda Gokcen, Linguistics. Autumn 2021. Title: Resourceful at Any Size:A Predictive Methodology Using Linguistic Corpus Metrics for Multi-Source Training in Neural Dependency Parsing
- Courtney Mansfield, Linguistics. Spring 2021. Title: ASR and Human Recognition Errors: Predictability and Lexical Factors
- Leanne Rolston, Linguistics. Winter 2021.Title:Dialogical Signals of Stance Taking in Spontaneous Conversation
- Rik Koncel-Kedziorski, Linguistics, co-chair with Hannaneh Hajishirzi (CSE), Completed 2019. Title:Understanding and Generating Multi-Sentence Texts
- Chad Mills, Linguistics. Summer 2018. Title: Labeling and Automatically Identifying Basic-Level Categories
PHD STUDENTS - MEMBER OF THE READING COMMITTEE
- Saiya Karamali, Linguistics, current. (Chair, Betsy Evans)
- Vipasha Bansal, Linguistics, current. (Chair: Emily M. Bender)
- Ella De Falco, Linguistics, current. (Chair, Myriam Lapierre)
- Kaveri Sheth, Linguistics, current. (Chair, Naja Ferjan-Ramirez)
- Gita Dhungana, Linguistics, current. (Chair, Emily Bender)
- Sara Ng, Linguistics, completed Summer 2024. (Co-Chairs, Richard Wright and Mari Ostendorf)
- 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
- Arjun Chakraborty, Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, (Chair: Meliha Yetisgen)
- Jessie Loucks-Tavitas, Mathematics (Chair: Max Lieblich), Spring 2024.
- 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, completed Autumn 2024.
- Julia Mainzinger, Linguistics, CLMS, completed Summer 2024. Title: Fine-Tuning ASR Models for Very Low-Resource Languages: A Study on Mvskoke
- 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
- John Dodson, Linguistics CLMS, completed 2020. Title: Speech to Text to Semantics: A Sequence-to-Sequence System for Spoken Language Understanding
- Haley Lepp, Linguistics CLMS, completed 2020. Title: The Language of Law: An Analysis of Gender and Turn-Taking in U.S. Supreme Court Oral Arguments
- Kevin Henner, Linguistics CLMS, completed 2019 (co-Chair with Arman Cohan). Title: Enriching Scientific Paper Embeddings with Citation Context
- Sameer Arshad, Lingistics CLMS, completed Summer 2019. Title: Exploring Phone Recognition in Pre-verbal and Dysarthric Speech
- Ethan Roday, Linguistics CLMS, completed Winter 2017. Title: Three Cheers For Partisanship: Lexical Framing and Applause in U.S. Presidential Primary Debates
- 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, completed Winter 2024. (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)
- Haotian Zhu, Linguistics CLMS, completed 2020. (Chair, Fei Xia)
- Audrey Holmes, Linguistics CLMS, completed 2019. (Chair, Sarah Ketchley)
- Chuan Yi Chang, Linguistics CLMS, completed Winter 2018.
- Yi Zhu, Linguistics CLMS, completed Summer 2017. (Chair, Fei Xia)
- Ahmed Aly, Linguistics CLMS, completed Autumn 2016. (Chair, Katrin Kirchhoff
- 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
- Cat Ball, current
- Clara Brandt, current
- Maria Paula Cortes, current
- Mimi Louie, current
- Libbey Merchant, current
- Christina Smith, current
- Xilong Wang, current
- Atharva Chopde, completed Autumn 2023
- 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