Elizabeth Shriberg

Contact Information

Microsoft Speech Labs
1310 Villa St.
Mountain View, CA 94041, USA
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International Computer Science Institute
1947 Center Street, Berkeley, CA 94704-1198
Tel: (510) 666-2918
FAX: (510) 666-2956
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Brief Bio:

Elizabeth Shriberg is currently a Principal Scientist at Microsoft Speech Labs in Mountain View, CA. Previously she was a Senior Researcher in the Speech Technology and Research Laboratory at SRI International (Menlo Park, CA). She is also affiliated with the Speech Group at the International Computer Science Institute (Berkeley, CA) and an Adjunct Associate Professor at CASL, University of Maryland. She received a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from U.C. Berkeley (1994) and was an NSF-NATO postdoc at IPO (the Netherlands, 1995). Her main interest is spontaneous speech. Her work aims to combine linguistic knowledge with corpora and techniques from speech and speaker recognition, to advance both scientific understanding and recognition technology.

Over the last decade she has led projects on modeling disfluencies, punctuation, dialog, emotion, and speakers, using lexical and prosodic features. She has published over 150 journal and conference papers in speech science, speech technology, and related fields. She serves or has served as Associate Editor of Language and Speech, on the boards of Speech Communication, Computational Linguistics, and other journals, on a range of conference and workshop boards, as a co-organizer of ISCA workshops, on the ISCA Advisory Council, and on the ICSLP Permanent Council. In 2009 she received the ISCA Fellow Award; in 2010 she became a Fellow of SRI.

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Professional Activities

Sample Projects

• speaker recognition using long-range features
  
• modeling speech in meetings
  
• modeling emotion for dialog systems
  
• developing automatic punctuation techniques
  
• modeling disfluencies in spontaneous speech
  
• modeling dialog acts in conversation