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2009

  • “Meaning-Text-Theory and Lexical Frames”
    Robert Coyne, Owen Rambow.
    International Conference on Meaning-Text Theory 2009, Montreal, Canada.
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  • “Detecting Pitch Accents at the Word, Syllable, and Vowel Level”
    Andrew Rosenberg, Julia Hirschberg.
    NAACL/HLT 2009, Boulder, CO.
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  • “Improving the Arabic pronunciation dictionary for phone and word recognition with linguistically-based pronunciation rules”
    Fadi Biadsy, Nizar Habash, Julia Hirschberg.
    NAACL/HLT 2009, Boulder, CO.
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  • “Contextual phrase-level polarity analysis using lexical affect scoring and syntactic n-grams”
    Apoorv Agarwal, Fadi Biadsy, Kathleen McKeown.
    EACL2009, Athens, Greece.
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  • “Spoken Arabic dialect identification using phonotactic modeling”
    Fadi Biadsy, Julia Hirschberg, Nizar Habash.
    EACL2009 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages, Athens, Greece.
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  • “Restoring punctuation and capitalization in transcribed speech”
    Agustín Gravano, Martin Jansche, Michiel Bacchiani.
    ICASSP 2009, Taipei, Taiwan.
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2008

  • “An unsupervised approach to biography production using Wikipedia”
    Fadi Biadsy, Julia Hirschberg, Elena Filatova.
    ACL/HTL 2008, Columbus, OH.
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  • “A cross-cultural comparison of American, Palestinian, and Swedish perception of charismatic speech”
    Fadi Biadsy, Andrew Rosenberg, Rolf Carlson, Julia Hirschberg, Eva Strangert.
    Speech Prosody 2008, Campinas, Brazil.
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  • “The effect of contour type and epistemic modality on the assessment of speaker certainty”
    Agustín Gravano, Stefan Benus, Julia Hirschberg, Elisa Sneed German, Gregory Ward.
    Speech Prosody 2008, Campinas, Brazil.
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  • “Intonational Phrases for Speech Summarization”
    Sameer Maskey, Andrew Rosenberg, Julia Hirschberg.
    Interspeech 2008, Brisbane, Australia.
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  • “High frequency word entrainment in spoken dialogue”
    Ani Nenkova, Agustín Gravano, Julia Hirschberg.
    ACL/HTL 2008, Columbus, OH.
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2007

  • “The prosody of backchannels in American English”
    Stefan Benus, Agustín Gravano, Julia Hirschberg.
    ICPhS 2007, Saarbrücken, Germany.
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  • “Prosody, emotions, and... whatever
    Stefan Benus, Agustín Gravano, Julia Hirschberg.
    Interspeech 2007, Antwerp, Belgium.
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  • “Comparing American and Palestinian perceptions of charisma using acoustic-prosodic and lexical analysis”
    Fadi Biadsy, Julia Hirschberg, Andrew Rosenberg, Wisam Dakka.
    Interspeech 2007, Antwerp, Belgium.
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  • “Detecting deception using critical segments”
    Frank Enos, Elizabeth Shriberg, Martin Graciarena, Julia Hirschberg, Andreas Stolcke.
    Interspeech 2007, Antwerp, Belgium.
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  • “On the role of context and prosody in the interpretation of okay
    Agustín Gravano, Stefan Benus, Héctor Chávez, Julia Hirschberg, Lauren Wilcox.
    ACL 2007, Prague, Czech Republic.
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  • “Classification of discourse functions of affirmative words in spoken dialogue”
    Agustín Gravano, Stefan Benus, Julia Hirschberg, Shira Mitchell, Ilia Vovsha.
    Interspeech 2007, Antwerp, Belgium.
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  • “Intonational overload: Uses of the H* !H* L- L% contour in read and spontaneous speech”
    Julia Hirschberg, Agustín Gravano, Ani Nenkova, Elisa Sneed, Gregory Ward.
    Cole, J. and Hualde, J.I. (eds.). Laboratory Phonology 9, pages 455-482. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
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  • “Varying input segmentation for story boundary detection in English, Arabic and Mandarin broadcast news”
    Andrew Rosenberg, Mehrbod Sharifi, Julia Hirschberg.
    Interspeech 2007, Antwerp, Belgium.
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  • “Detecting pitch accent using pitch-corrected energy-based predictors”
    Andrew Rosenberg, Julia Hirschberg.
    Interspeech 2007, Antwerp, Belgium.
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  • “V-Measure: A conditional entropy-based external cluster evaluation measure”
    Andrew Rosenberg, Julia Hirschberg.
    EMNLP 2007, Prague, Czech Republic.
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2006

  • “Pauses in deceptive speech”
    Stefan Benus, Frank Enos, Julia Hirschberg, Elizabeth Shriberg.
    Speech Prosody 2006, Dresden, Germany.
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  • “Online Arabic handwriting recognition using Hidden Markov Models”
    Fadi Biadsy, Jihad El-Sana, Nizar Habash.
    10th International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, La Baule, France.
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  • “Personality factors in human deception detection: Comparing human to machine performance”
    Frank Enos, Stefan Benus, Robin L. Cautin, Martin Graciarena, Julia Hirschberg, Elizabeth Shriberg.
    Interspeech 2006, Pittsburgh, PA.
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  • “A framework for eliciting emotional speech: Capitalizing on the actor's process”
    Frank Enos, Julia Hirschberg.
    LREC 2006 Workshop on Emotional Corpora.
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  • “Combining prosodic, lexical and cepstral systems for deceptive speech detection”
    Martin Graciarena, Elizabeth Shriberg, Andreas Stolcke, Frank Enos, Julia Hirschberg, Sachin Kajarekar.
    ICASSP 2006, Toulouse, France.
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  • “Effect of genre, speaker, and word class on the realization of given and new information”
    Agustín Gravano, Julia Hirschberg.
    Interspeech 2006, Pittsburgh, PA.
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  • “Detecting question-bearing turns in spoken tutorial dialogues”
    Jackson Liscombe, Jennifer J. Venditti, Julia Hirschberg.
    Interspeech 2006, Pittsburgh, PA.
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  • “Detecting emotion in speech: Experiments in three domains”
    Jackson Liscombe.
    HLT Doctoral Consortium, New York, NY.
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  • “A phrase-level machine translation approach for disfluency detection using Weighted Finite State Transducers”
    Sameer Maskey, Bowen Zhou, Yuqing Gao.
    Interspeech 2006, Pittsburgh, PA.
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  • “Soundbite detection in Broadcast News domain”
    Sameer Maskey, Julia Hirschberg.
    Interspeech 2006, Pittsburgh, PA.
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  • “Summarizing speech without text using Hidden Markov Models”
    Sameer Maskey, Julia Hirschberg.
    HLT-NAACL 2006, New York, NY.
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  • “Story segmentation of broadcast news in English, Mandarin and Arabic”
    Andrew Rosenberg, Julia Hirschberg.
    Interspeech 2006, Pittsburgh, PA.
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  • “On the correlation between energy and pitch accent in read English speech”
    Andrew Rosenberg, Julia Hirschberg.
    Interspeech 2006, Pittsburgh, PA.
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  • “Intonational cues to student questions in tutoring dialogs”
    Jennifer J. Venditti, Julia Hirschberg, Jackson Liscombe.
    Interspeech 2006, Pittsburgh, PA.
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2005

  • “Distinguishing deceptive from non-deceptive speech”
    Julia Hirschberg, Stefan Benus, Jason M. Brenier, Frank Enos, Sarah Friedman, Sarah Gilman, Cynthia Girand, Martin Graciarena, Andreas Kathol, Laura Michaelis, Bryan Pellom, Elizabeth Shriberg, Andreas Stolcke.
    Eurospeech 2005, Lisbon, Portugal.
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  • “Detecting certainness in spoken tutorial dialogues”
    Jackson Liscombe, Julia Hirschberg, Jennifer J. Venditti.
    Eurospeech 2005, Lisbon, Portugal.
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  • “Using context to improve emotion detection in Spoken Dialog Systems”
    Jackson Liscombe, Giuseppe Riccardi, Dilek Hakkani-Tür.
    Eurospeech 2005, Lisbon, Portugal.
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  • “From text summarization to speech summarization”
    Kathleen McKeown, Julia Hirschberg, Michel Galley, Sameer Maskey.
    ICASSP, Special Session on Human Language Technology Applications and Challenges for Speech Processing.
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  • “Do summaries help? A task-based evaluation of multi-document summarization”
    Kathleen McKeown, Rebecca Passonneau, David Elson, Ani Nenkova, Julia Hirschberg.
    ACM SIGIR.
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  • “Comparing lexical, acoustic/prosodic, structural and discourse features for speech summarization”
    Sameer Maskey, Julia Hirschberg.
    Eurospeech 2005, Lisbon, Portugal.
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  • “Acoustic/prosodic and lexical correlates of charismatic speech”
    Andrew Rosenberg, Julia Hirschberg.
    Eurospeech 2005, Lisbon, Portugal.
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  • “Rapid language model development using external resources for new spoken dialog domains”
    Ruhi Sarikaya, Agustín Gravano, Yuqing Gao.
    ICASSP 2005, Philadelphia, PA.
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2004

  • “The original ToBI system, and the evolution of the ToBI framework”
    Mary Beckman, Julia Hirschberg, Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel.
    S.-A. Jun, ed., Prosodic Models, and Transcription: Towards Prosodic Typology. Oxford University Press, Chapter 2, pp. 9-54.
  • “Prediction of upcoming Swedish prosodic boundaries by Swedish, and American listeners”
    Rolf Carlson, Julia Hirschberg, Marc Swerts.
    Speech Prosody 2004, Nara, Japan.
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  • “Identifying agreement and disagreement in conversational speech: use of bayesian networks to model pragmatic dependencies”
    Michel Galley, Kathleen McKeown, Julia Hirschberg, Elizabeth Shriberg.
    ACL 2004, Barcelona.
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  • “Bootstrapping phonetic lexicon for new languages”
    Sameer Maskey, Alan Black, Laura Tomokiyo.
    Interspeech 2004, South Korea.
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  • “Improved name recognition using meta-data dependent name networks”
    Sameer Maskey, Michiel Bacchiani, Brian Roark, Richard Sproat.
    ICASSP 2004, Montreal, Canada.
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  • “Augmenting the kappa statistic to determine interannotator reliability for multiply labelled data points”
    Andrew Rosenberg, Ed Binkowski.
    HLT/NAACL 2004.
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  • “Constructionist design methodology for interactive intelligences”
    Kristinn Thorisson, Hrvoje Benko, Denis Abramov, Andrew Arnold, Sameer Maskey, Aruchunan Vaseekaran.
    Artifical Intelligence Magazine, Fall Issue 2004.
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2003

  • “Classifying subject ratings of emotional speech using acoustic features”
    Jackson Liscombe, Jennifer Venditti, Julia Hirschberg.
    Eurospeech 2003.
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  • “Automatic speech summarization of broadcast news using structural features”
    Sameer Maskey, Julia Hirschberg.
    Eurospeech 2003.
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  • “Intonation and Discourse Processing”
    Jennifer Venditti, Julia Hirschberg.
    ICPhS 2003.
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2000

  • “The rules behind roles: identifying speaker role in radio broadcasts”
    Regina Barzilay, Michael Collins, Julia Hirschberg, Steve Whittaker.
    Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2000), Austin (TX).
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