Gina-AnneLevowshe/herAssociate Professorlevow@uw.edu(206) 616-5728GUG 418BOffice Hours: Fridays 2:30-3:20, please email for Zoom accessFields of Interest Chinese Computational Linguistics Computer Science Dialog Discourse Analysis Low-density Languages Natural Language Processing Pragmatics Prosody Speech Processing Background and ExperienceSummaryPhD, Computer Science, MIT, 1998 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 an associate professor in the Linguistics Department at the University of Washington. Her research concentrates on the use of intonation in spoken dialog, and her interests range over natural language processing, spoken language systems, and human-computer interfaces. Websites: Faculty Website Research Download Full CV (115.46 KB) Selected: Projects and Grants "STREAMLInED: Shared Tasks for Rapid, Efficient Analysis of Many Languages in Emerging Documentation." National Science Foundation. BCS: #1760475, Amount: $124,986. Levow/Bender (Ongoing) Gina Levow, Emily Bender, Co-PIs. "EL-STEC: Shared Task Evaluation Campaigns with Endangered Language Data." National Science Foundation. IIS: #1500157, $49,997 "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 NetworksKatrin Kirchhoff, Gina Levow, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Leanne Rolston, Camille Goudeseune and Preethi Jyothi; DARPA LORELEI Mari Ostendorf, Richard Wright, Gina Levow, Co-PIs. ATAROS Project: Automatic Tagging and Recognition of Stance. (Completed/published) Selected: Publications 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. 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] 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). Selected: Publications, Books 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. Courses Taught Winter 2021 LING 571 A: Deep Processing Techniques for Natural Language Processing LING 571 C: Deep Processing Techniques for Natural Language Processing LING 571 D: Deep Processing Techniques for Natural Language Processing Spring 2020 LING 573 A: Natural Language Processing Systems and Applications LING 573 B: Natural Language Processing Systems and Applications LING 573 C: Natural Language Processing Systems and Applications LING 575 C: Topics in Computational Linguistics LING 575 D: Topics in Computational Linguistics LING 575 H: Topics in Computational Linguistics Winter 2020 LING 571 A: Deep Processing Techniques for Natural Language Processing LING 571 B: Deep Processing Techniques for Natural Language Processing LING 571 C: Deep Processing Techniques for Natural Language Processing LING 571 D: Deep Processing Techniques for Natural Language Processing Spring 2019 LING 573 A: Natural Language Processing Systems and Applications LING 573 B: Natural Language Processing Systems and Applications LING 573 C: Natural Language Processing Systems and Applications Winter 2019 LING 572 A: Advanced Statistical Methods in Natural Language Processing LING 572 B: Advanced Statistical Methods in Natural Language Processing LING 572 C: Advanced Statistical Methods in Natural Language Processing LING 572 D: Advanced Statistical Methods in Natural Language Processing LING 575 A: Topics in Computational Linguistics LING 575 B: Topics in Computational Linguistics LING 575 G: Topics in Computational Linguistics Spring 2017 LING 573 A: Natural Language Processing Systems And Applications - Course Website LING 573 B: Natural Language Processing Systems And Applications - Course Website LING 575 A: Topics In Computational Linguistics - Course Website LING 575 B: Topics In Computational Linguistics - Course Website LING 575 C: Topics In Computational Linguistics - Course Website Winter 2017 LING 571 A: Deep Processing Techniques For Natural Language Processing - Course Website LING 571 B: Deep Processing Techniques For Natural Language Processing - Course Website LING 571 C: Deep Processing Techniques For Natural Language Processing - Course Website LING 571 D: Deep Processing Techniques For Natural Language Processing - Course Website LING 600 B: Independent Study Or Research LING 700 B: Master's Thesis Spring 2016 LING 573 A: Natural Language Processing Systems And Applications - Course Website LING 573 B: Natural Language Processing Systems And Applications - Course Website LING 575 C: Topics In Computational Linguistics - Course Website LING 575 H: Topics In Computational Linguistics - Course Website Winter 2016 LING 571 A: Deep Processing Techniques For Natural Language Processing - Course Website LING 571 B: Deep Processing Techniques For Natural Language Processing - Course Website LING 571 C: Deep Processing Techniques For Natural Language Processing - Course Website LING 571 D: Deep Processing Techniques For Natural Language Processing - Course Website Spring 2015 LING 573 A: Natural Language Processing Systems And Applications - Course Website LING 573 B: Natural Language Processing Systems And Applications - Course Website LING 575 G: Topics In Computational Linguistics - Course Website LING 575 H: Topics In Computational Linguistics - Course Website Winter 2015 LING 571 A: Deep Processing Techniques For Natural Language Processing - Course Website LING 571 B: Deep Processing Techniques For Natural Language Processing - Course Website LING 571 C: Deep Processing Techniques For Natural Language Processing - Course Website LING 571 D: Deep Processing Techniques For Natural Language Processing - Course Website Spring 2014 LING 573 A: Natural Language Processing Systems And Applications - Course Website LING 573 B: Natural Language Processing Systems And Applications - Course Website LING 575 A: Topics In Computational Linguistics - Course Website LING 575 B: Topics In Computational Linguistics - Course Website LING 575 D: Topics In Computational Linguistics - Course Website Winter 2014 LING 571 A: Deep Processing Techniques For Natural Language Processing - Course Website LING 571 B: Deep Processing Techniques For Natural Language Processing - Course Website LING 571 C: Deep Processing Techniques For Natural Language Processing - Course Website LING 571 D: Deep Processing Techniques For Natural Language Processing - Course Website Related News Related News CLMS News - Oct 6, 2020 Linguistics Professors and Graduate presented on ethnic/racial discrimination in ASR at the 2020 AAAS - Jun 23, 2020 Esther Le Grézause Defends Dissertation Entitled "Um and Uh, and the Expression of Stance in Conversational Speech" - Aug 15, 2017 Gina-Anne Levow teaches session for 2015 Jelinek Summer Workshop on Speech and Language Technology - Jun 18, 2015 Alicia Beckford Wassink gives Invited Plenary Address at Linguistics Society of America's annual meeting in Portland - Dec 15, 2014 UW Linguistics PhD candidate's poster featured in ASA, AIP press release - Dec 4, 2014 AffiliationsAffiliated Departments: Computational Linguistics MS Share: Print PDF