Scholar
Sarah Ita Levitan
Google Scholar ID: -U_XtWsAAAAJ
Hunter College, City University of New York
Citations & Impact
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883
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Publications
20
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Background
- Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Hunter College
- Member of the doctoral faculty at the CUNY Graduate Center for both Computer Science and Linguistics PhD Programs
- Research interests focus on spoken language processing, aiming to enable computers to understand human speech
- Particularly interested in paralinguistics—the non-verbal aspects of speech
- Uses computational approaches to extract and analyze acoustic-prosodic and lexical features to infer speaker characteristics or speech properties
- Recent projects include detecting deceptive and trustworthy language, identifying misinformation and hate speech on social media, and understanding/predicting online radicalization
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