Rivka Levitan

Publications

R. Levitan, D. Elson, "Detecting Retries of Voice Search Queries," to appear in Proceedings of ACL 2014.

Z. Xia, R. Levitan, J. Hirschberg, "Prosodic Entrainment in Mandarin and English: A Cross-Linguistic Comparison," in Proceedings of Speech Prosody. Dublin, Ireland, May 2014. (Best Student Paper Award)

R. Levitan, "Entrainment in Spoken Dialogue Systems: Adopting, Predicting and Influencing User Behavior," in Proceedings of NAACL Student Research Workshop (thesis proposal track). Atlanta, Georgia, June 2013.

S. Benus, R. Levitan, J. Hirschberg, "Entrainment in spontaneous speech: the case of filled pauses in Supreme Court hearings," in Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications, pp. 793-797, 2012. (Best Paper Award)

R. Levitan, A. Gravano, L. Willson, S. Benus, J. Hirschberg, A. Nenkova, "Acoustic-prosodic entrainment and social behavior," in Proceedings of NAACL 2012. Montreal, Canada, June 2012.

A. Rosenberg, E. Cooper, R. Levitan, J. Hirschberg. "Cross-language prominence detection." Speech Prosody, 2012.

A. Gravano, R. Levitan, L. Willson, S. Benus, J. Hirschberg, A. Nenkova, "Acoustic and prosodic correlates of social behavior", in Proceedings of Interspeech 2011. Florence, Italy, August 2011.

R. Levitan, J. Hirschberg, "Measuring acoustic-prosodic entrainment with respect to multiple levels and dimensions", in Proceedings of Interspeech 2011. Florence, Italy, August 2011. Erratum.

R. Levitan, A. Gravano, J. Hirschberg, "Entrainment in speech preceding backchannels", in Proceedings of ACL 2011. Portland, OR, June 2011. slides