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Advances in natural language processing by Hirschberg, Julia, Manning, Christopher D.

“…Natural language processing employs computational techniques for the purpose of learning, understanding, and producing human language content. Early…”
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An empirical study of the effect of acoustic-prosodic entrainment on the perceived trustworthiness of conversational avatars by Gálvez, Ramiro H., Gravano, Agustín, Beňuš, Štefan, Levitan, Rivka, Trnka, Marian, Hirschberg, Julia

“…•It is believed that spoken dialog systems (SDSs) which replicate human-human behavior will lead to better interactions with users.•We carried out a large…”
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Communication and prosody: Functional aspects of prosody by Hirschberg, Julia

“…Interest in the contribution prosodic information makes to human communication has led to increasing expectations that such information could be of use in…”
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Entrainment, dominance and alliance in supreme court hearings by Beňuš, Štefan, Gravano, Agustín, Levitan, Rivka, Levitan, Sarah Ita, Willson, Laura, Hirschberg, Julia

“…A major goal of the Cognitive Infocommunication approach is to develop applications in which human and artificial cognitive systems are made to work more…”
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Automatic detection of speaker state: Lexical, prosodic, and phonetic approaches to level-of-interest and intoxication classification by Wang, William Yang, Biadsy, Fadi, Rosenberg, Andrew, Hirschberg, Julia

“…Traditional studies of speaker state focus primarily upon one-stage classification techniques using standard acoustic features. In this article, we investigate…”
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Cues to upcoming Swedish prosodic boundaries: Subjective judgment studies and acoustic correlates by Carlson, Rolf, Hirschberg, Julia, Swerts, Marc

“…Studies of perceptually based predictions of upcoming prosodic boundaries in spontaneous Swedish speech, both by native speakers of Swedish and of native…”
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Investigating prosodic entrainment from global conversations to local turns and tones in Mandarin conversations by Xia, Zhihua, Hirschberg, Julia, Levitan, Rivka

“…•This is the first journal submission describing in considerable detail acoustic-prosodic entrainment (the tendency of speakers to speak like one another in…”
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Charisma perception from text and speech by Rosenberg, Andrew, Hirschberg, Julia

“…Charisma, the ability to attract and retain followers without benefit of formal authority, is more difficult to define than to identify. While we each seem…”
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Individual differences in acoustic-prosodic entrainment in spoken dialogue by Weise, Andreas, Levitan, Sarah Ita, Hirschberg, Julia, Levitan, Rivka

“…highlights•Prosodic entrainment behavior varies greatly even for speakers in identical contexts.•Both the number of features entrained on and the valence of…”
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Turn-taking cues in task-oriented dialogue by Gravano, Agustín, Hirschberg, Julia

“…▶ Seven turn-yielding cues precede turn changes in spontaneous task-oriented dialogue. ▶ Cues are prosodic, acoustic, and lexico-syntactic events. ▶ Cues are…”
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Prosodic predictors of upcoming positive or negative content in spoken messages by Swerts, Marc, Hirschberg, Julia

“…This article examines potential prosodic predictors of emotional speech in utterances perceived as conveying that good or bad news is about to be delivered…”
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Pragmatic aspects of temporal accommodation in turn-taking by Beňuš, Štefan, Gravano, Agustín, Hirschberg, Julia

“…► We study the timing of turn-initial single word grounding responses and conversational fillers. ► Spontaneous, task-oriented dialogues in Standard American…”
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Entrainment in spoken Hebrew dialogues by Weise, Andreas, Silber-Varod, Vered, Lerner, Anat, Hirschberg, Julia, Levitan, Rivka

“…•Hebrew speakers entrain similarly at turn exchanges as Indo-European speakers do.•Hebrew speakers show more divergent behavior, especially mixed sex speaker…”
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Identifying Entrainment in Task-Oriented Conversations by Chen, Run, Kim, Seokhwan, Papangelis, Alexandros, Hirschberg, Julia, Liu, Yang, Hakkani-Tur, Dilek

“…Human interlocutors adapt their behavior to each other in a conversation through entrainment. While entrainment has been found in long chit-chat conversations,…”
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Acoustic-Prosodic and Lexical Cues to Deception and Trust: Deciphering How People Detect Lies by Chen, Xi (Leslie), Ita Levitan, Sarah, Levine, Michelle, Mandic, Marko, Hirschberg, Julia

“…Humans rarely perform better than chance at lie detection. To better understand human perception of deception, we created a game framework, LieCatcher, to…”
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Implicating Uncertainty: The Pragmatics of Fall-Rise Intonation by Ward, Gregory, Hirschberg, Julia

“…An analysis of naturally occurring data reveals that the FALL-RISE intonational contour makes a context-independent contribution to utterance interpretation:…”
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Exploring Robustness in Doctor-Patient Conversation Summarization: An Analysis of Out-of-Domain SOAP Notes by Chen, Yu-Wen, Hirschberg, Julia

“…Summarizing medical conversations poses unique challenges due to the specialized domain and the difficulty of collecting in-domain training data. In this…”
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System and method for processing speech files by Hirschberg, Julia, Whittaker, Stephen

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EmoKnob: Enhance Voice Cloning with Fine-Grained Emotion Control by Chen, Haozhe, Chen, Run, Hirschberg, Julia

“…While recent advances in Text-to-Speech (TTS) technology produce natural and expressive speech, they lack the option for users to select emotion and control…”
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Rescoring Confusion Networks for Keyword Search by Soto, Victor, Cooper, Erica, Mangu, Lidia, Rosenberg, Andrew, Hirschberg, Julia

“…We introduce a two-stage cascaded scheme to rescore Confusion Networks (CNs) for Keyword Search in the context of Low-Resource Languages. In the first stage we…”
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