Gina-Anne Levow

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

• Ph.D. Thesis: Characterizing and Recognizing Spoken Corrections in Human-Computer Dialog
• Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Robert C. Berwick

• Master's Thesis: A Discourse-Neutral Prosodic Phrasing System for Mandarin Chinese

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.

University of Chicago: September, 2001- Current

• Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
• Research
  • Tone and Pitch Accent Recognition
    • Multi-lingual: Mandarin Chinese, isiZulu, English
    • Minimally Supervised: Unsupervised, Semi-supervised
    • Child-directed speech
    • Support for Computer-Assisted Language Learning
  • Structural Interpretation of Spoken Communication
    • Analysis of Corrections in Human Computer Dialogue
    • Automatic Topic Segmentation
      • in Monologue and Dialogue
      • in Human-Human Dialogue and Human-Computer Dialogue
      • in Mandarin and English
    • Multi-modal Discourse Understanding (in collaboration with McNeill Lab and SIDGrid Cyberinfrastructure project [PI: Bertenthal])
  • Information Retrieval and Extraction
    • From Medical Incident Reports (in collaboration with Richard I. Cook in the STL Lab, University of Chicago Medical School)
    • From Multi-lingual Text and Spoken Documents

University of Maryland, College Park, MD: September 1998-September 2001

• Research Associate, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
• Computational Linguistics and Information Processing Laboratory (CLIP)
• Developed systems for cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) in text and spoken documents
• Participated in development of machine translation system from Mandarin Chinese to English
  • Developed techniques for semi-automatic creation of large-scale semantically-rich interlingual lexicons

• Visiting Scholar, Human-Computer Communication Laboratory.
• Developed systems for Mandarin-English translingual speech retrieval

Oregon Graduate Institute for Science and Technology, Portland, OR: Summer 1995, Summer 1996

• NSF Summer Intern, Center for Human-Computer Communication
• Investigated the effects on user behavior of computer errors in multi-modal human-computer interaction
• Analyzed user utterances for acoustic-phonetic adaptations
• Designed automatic tools for speech data digitization and data analysis

Kurzweil Applied Intelligence, Waltham, MA: Summer 1995 to Winter 1996

• NIST Group Summer Intern, Consultant
• Designed and implemented natural language interface to drawing software
• Designed system grammar, semantics, and execution modules
• Evaluated natural language interface design tools

• Speech Group Summer Intern, Contractor
• Participated in development of voice-in/voice-out interface to Calendar Manager, E-mail, and weather applications
• Extended voice interface to Calendar Manager to allow content-based search, requiring automatic extension of speech recognizer grammar and vocabulary
• Analyzed impact on speech recognition and system performance of increased vocabulary size and sex of speaker

• Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C.
• ONR Graduate Intern
• Designed and expanded discourse component to implement anaphora resolution for natural language interfaces
• Anaphora resolution currently deployed in mobile robot (2000)

• CMSC 35900: Topics in Artificial Intelligence: Discourse & Dialogue
  • Fall 2006, Fall 2004, Fall 2001
• CMSC 35100: Natural Language Processing: Spring 2003, Winter 2006
• CMSC 25000: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Winter 2002-2007
• CMSC 16100: Honors Introduction to Computer Science: Fall 2006
• CMSC 11500: Introduction to Computer Programming I : Fall 2002
• CMSC 10500: Fundamentals of Computer Programming I: Fall 2005, Fall 2004
• CSPP 56553: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Winter 2004
• CSPP 51080: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs: Spring 2004

• Member of International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) 1999-current
• Member of Association for Computational Linguistics, 1998-current
• Member of Sigma Xi scientific research society, Inducted May 1992
• Office of Naval Research Graduate Fellowship, 1990-1994
• Rotary Foundation Graduate Fellowship for International Understanding
  Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C., 1989 - 1990
• Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, Penna Delta Chapter, Inducted May 1988

• "Prosody in Spoken Language Understanding", NLP Winter School, IIIT-Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India, January 4, 2008.
• "Lessons from the SIGHAN International Chinese Word Segmentation Bakeoffs", Gina-Anne Levow, 9th Joint Symposium on Computational Linguistics, Dalian, Liaoning, PRC, August, 6-8, 2007
• "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, April 1, 2006.

• Principal Investigator, "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, Oct 2007-Oct 2010, Co-PIs: Susan Duncan (U of C, Psychology), Jonathan Gratch (USC/ICT), Dan Loehr (MITRE Corp.)
• Principal Investigator,"Multimodal Discourse Investigation with SIDGrid", University of Chicago Academic Technology Innovation Program, July 2007-June 2008. Co-PIs: Susan Duncan, David McNeill, Psychology Department.
• Principal Investigator,"Learning Tone", National Science Foundation, IIS-0414919, Human Language and Communication (HLC), August 2004-January 2008.
• Consultant,"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.


• Secretary/Webmaster ACL SIGHAN, Special Interest Group on Chinese Language Processing, 2006-2008.
• Workshop Tutorial Instructor - Information Retrieval, Johns Hopkins HLT-NAACL Summer School in Human Language Technologies, June 2004, July 2006; Machine Learning Summer School, Toyota Technological Institute - Chicago, May 2005.
• Workshop Tutorial Instructor - Cross-language Information Retrieval, Johns Hopkins HLT-NAACL Summer School in Human Language Technologies, June 2001.
• Workshop Participation: Faculty, Johns Hopkins Summer Workshop 2000
  • Mandarin-English Information (MEI) Project
  • Coordinated English-Mandarin query translation component for cross-language information retrieval
• Information Retrieval Evaluation Participation: CLEF2007, NTCIR4, CLEF2004, CLEF2000, TDT2000, TREC-9, TDT1999, TREC-8

Conference Organization:

• Workshop Co-chair: Fourth SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing, 2005.
• Bakeoff Co-ordinator: Third SIGHAN Chinese Language Processing Bakeoff, 2006. Evaluation of Chinese Word Segmentation and Named Entity Recognition.
• Program Committee Member: AIRS 2008, SIGHAN 2008, SIGIR 2007, SIGHAN 2006, AIRS 2006, International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (ICCPOL) 2006, Midwest Computational Linguistics Colloquium 2006, Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU) 2005, Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2004, Asian Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS) 2004, EMNLP 2003, SIGIR 2003, Association for Computational Linguistics 2002 Workshop on Effective Tools and Methodologies for Teaching NLP and CL, ISCA Workshop on Prosody in Automatic Speech Recognition, 2001
• Workshops/Tutorials Co-chair: HLT-NAACL 2007
• Publications Co-chair: HLT-NAACL 2004

Reviewing Activities:

• National Science Foundation Review Panelist
• ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP): Associate Editor (2007-2009)
• Computational Linguistics: Member of Editorial Board (2003-2005)
• Reviewer at large: Journals: ACM Computing Surveys, Information Processing and Management, Language and Speech, Transactions in Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP), Computational Linguistics, Human Computer Interaction, ACM Transaction on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), Speech Communication
• Reviewer at large: Conferences: Speech Prosody 2008, ACL 2007, HLT-NAACL 2007, HLT-NAACL 2006, EACL 2006, ACL 2005, IJCNLP 2004, Coling 2004, Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2004, 2002; HLT-NAACL 2003; SIGIR 2002; NAACL-2000; EACL-2000

Journal and Conference Publications

• " Mandarin Chinese Tone Nucleus Detection with Landmarks ", Siwei Wang and Gina-Anne Levow, Interspeech 2008 (to appear).
• " Studying Discourse and Dialogue with SIDGrid ", Gina-Anne Levow, The Third Workshop on Issues in Teaching Computational Linguistics, ACL08-Teaching-CL, p. 106-113.
• " 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.


• "", 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.

 

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Research Supervision:
• Current Ph.D. Student:
  • Siwei Wang (Tone Recognition)
• Current Master's Student:
  • Sonjia Waxmonsky (Prosodic and Lexical Evidence for Summarization of Conversational Speech)
• Ph.D. thesis advisor: Irina Matveeva, "Generalized Latent Semantic Analysis for Document Representation", March 2008.
• Ph.D. thesis advisor: Dinoj Surendran, " Analysis and Automatic Recognition of Tones in Mandarin Chinese", December 2007.
• Ph.D. thesis committee: Yu Hu, "Topics in Unsupervised Language Learning", March 2007.
• Ph.D. thesis committee: Zhimin Xie, "Acoustic-Based Broad Class Phoneme Detection", September 2006.
• Ph.D. thesis committee: Xiaofei He, "Locality Preserving Projections", October 2005.
• Master's thesis co-advisor: Irina Matveeva, "Text representation with the locality preserving projection algorithm for information retrieval tasks", May 2004.
• Master's thesis co-advisor: Bradley Boven, "Approaches and Issues in Dialog Act Tagging",May 2007.
• Master's thesis advisor: Siwei Wang,"Improving Tone Recognition with Combined Pitch and Intensity Modeling", December 2005.
• Master's thesis committee: Aren Jansen, "The Manifold Nature of Vowel Sounds", May 2005.
• Master's thesis committee: Zhimin Xie, "An Acoustic Feature Based Vowel Detector", May 2005.
• Master's thesis committee: Leandro Cortes, "An algorithm for fast detection and tracking of small events", May 2004.
• Master's thesis committee: Dinoj Surendran, " The Functional Load of Phonological Contrasts", November 2003.
• Master's thesis committee: Oleg Pashko, "Detecting Vowel Nasal Transitions in Continuous Speech", November 2002.

Additional Teaching Experience:
• Adjunct Faculty, University of Maryland, College Park MD, Summer 2001
• LBSC690 Information Technology

Programming Languages & Systems:
LISP, Prolog, Scheme, C, C++, Java, Perl, Pascal, CGI/HTML, Visual Basic, UNIX, Linux, Windows'98/2000/NT/XP

Special Skills:
Languages: Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, French

Citizenship:
USA

 

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