Professor
Contact Information
GUG 418B
Office Hours
Thurs: 11-1:50am; Fri: 2:30-3:20pm: Zoom - please email for link
Biography
PhD, Computer Science, MIT, 1998
Curriculum Vitae
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Prof. Levow received her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1998. Her doctoral thesis explored recognizing spoken corrections in human-computer dialogue, relying on acoustic-prosodic features. She is currently a Professor in the Linguistics Department at the University of Washington. Her research concentrates on the use of intonation in spoken language as well as computational models of speech processing for low-resource languages. Her interests range over natural language processing, spoken language systems, and human-computer interfaces.
Research
Selected Research
- Oganyan, M., Levow, G., Squizzero, R., Ahn, E., Ng, S., Deaton, E. & Wright, R. (2024). Investigating the acoustic fidelity of vowels across remote recording methods. Linguistics Vanguard, 10(1), pp. 63-79. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2022-0169
- C.m. Downey, Fei Xia, Gina-Anne Levow, and Shane Steinert-Threlkeld. 2022. A Masked Segmental Language Model for Unsupervised Natural Language Segmentation. In Proceedings of the 19th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, pages 39–50, Seattle, Washington. Association for Computational Linguistics Download PDF
- Gina Levow, Emily Bender, Co-PIs. "EL-STEC: Shared Task Evaluation Campaigns with Endangered Language Data." National Science Foundation. IIS: #1500157, $49,997
- Levow, Gina-Anne, Emily M. Bender, Patrick Littell, Kristen Howell, Shobhana Chelliah, Joshua Crowgey, Dan Garrette, Jeff Good, Sharon Hargus, David Inman, Michael Maxwell, Michael Tjalve, and Fei Xia. 2017. STREAMLInED Challenges: Aligning Research Interests with Shared Tasks. In Proceedings of ComputEL-2: 2nd Workshop on Computational Methods for Endangered Languages, ICLDC 2017, Honolulu Hawai`i. [.bib]
- "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. Co-PIs: Gina-Anne Levow, Patrick Wong
- Transfer Learning Across Language Similarity Networks Katrin Kirchhoff, Gina Levow, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Leanne Rolston, Camille Goudeseune and Preethi Jyothi; DARPA LORELEI
- Gina-Anne Levow, Valerie Freeman, Alena Hrynkevich, Mari Ostendorf, Richard Wright, Julian Chan, Yi Luan, Trang Tran. (to appear) Recognition of Stance Strength and Polarity in Spontaneous Speech, in Proceedings of SLT-2014.
- Gina-Anne Levow, Valerie Freeman, Alena Hrynkevich, Mari Ostendorf, Richard Wright, Julian Chan, Yi Luan, Trang Tran. (2014) Recognition of Stance Strength and Polarity in Spontaneous Speech. In Proceedings of SLT-2014 (to appear). Download PDF
- Maxine Eskanzi, Gina-Anne Levow, Helen Meng, Gabriel Parent, David Suendermann (Eds.) (2013) Crowdsourcing for Speech Processing: Applications to Data Collection, Transcription, and Assessment. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons.
- "STREAMLInED: Shared Tasks for Rapid, Efficient Analysis of Many Languages in Emerging Documentation." National Science Foundation. BCS: #1760475, Amount: $124,986. Levow/Bender
- Mari Ostendorf, Richard Wright, Gina Levow, Co-PIs. ATAROS Project: Automatic Tagging and Recognition of Stance.
Courses Taught
Autumn 2025
Spring 2024
Winter 2024
Spring 2023
Winter 2023
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