Journal, Conference, and Workshop Publications

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


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


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


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


• "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.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


• "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.


• "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.


• "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.


• "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.


• "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.


• "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.


• "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.    


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


• "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.


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


• "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.


• " 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.


• "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.   


• " 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 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.


• "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 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.   


• "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.


• "Adaptations in Spoken Corrections: Implications for  Models of Conversational Speech", Gina-Anne Levow (2002) Speech Communication, 36(1-2), pp. 147-163.   


• "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.


• "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.


• "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. 


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


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


• "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.

Working Notes and Technical Reports

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


• "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.


• "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, VA, 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.


• "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.