2026 Julia Hirschberg: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	77	1252	1211	666	640	326	27425

Research.com Recognitions

2017 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to text-to-speech synthesis and spoken language understanding
2017 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to the use of prosody in text-to-speech and spoken dialogue systems, and to audio browsing and retrieval.
2015 - ACM Fellow For contributions to spoken language processing.

Overview

Julia Hirschberg is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and has an extensive publication record primarily in the field of computer science. Their research spans several subfields including artificial intelligence, experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, language and linguistics, and sociology and political science.

Hirschberg's work covers multiple main topics such as:

Topic Modeling
Speech and dialogue systems
Natural Language Processing Techniques
Phonetics and Phonology Research
Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
AI in Service Interactions
Speech Recognition and Synthesis

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Hirschberg include:

"Artificial Intelligence and Life in 2030: The One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence", 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
"Acoustic-Prosodic and Lexical Cues to Deception and Trust: Deciphering How People Detect Lies", 2020, Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics
"Investigating prosodic entrainment from global conversations to local turns and tones in Mandarin conversations", 2023, Speech Communication
"An empirical study of the effect of acoustic-prosodic entrainment on the perceived trustworthiness of conversational avatars", 2020, Speech Communication
"Entrainment in spoken Hebrew dialogues", 2020, Journal of Phonetics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Hirschberg include:

Zizhou Liu
Sarah Ita Levitan
Ziwei Gong
Rivka Levitan
Lin Ai

Publications from Hirschberg appear most frequently in the following venues:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Speech Communication
Speech Prosody 2022
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Julia Hirschberg has been recognized with several awards, including:

Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2017) for contributions to the use of prosody in text-to-speech and spoken dialogue systems, and to audio browsing and retrieval
IEEE Fellow (2017) for contributions to text-to-speech synthesis and spoken language understanding
ACM Fellow (2015) for contributions to spoken language processing

Best Publications

TOBI: a standard for labeling English prosody.

Kim E. A. Silverman;Mary E. Beckman;John F. Pitrelli;Mari Ostendorf

1910
Citations
Advances in natural language processing.

Julia Hirschberg;Christopher D. Manning

1820
Citations
V-Measure: A Conditional Entropy-Based External Cluster Evaluation Measure

Andrew Rosenberg;Julia Hirschberg

1673
Citations
A theory of scalar implicature

Julia Linn Bell Hirschberg

878
Citations
The original ToBI system and the evolution of the ToBI framework

Mary E. Beckman;Julia Hirschberg;Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel

741
Citations
Detecting Hate Speech on the World Wide Web

William Warner;Julia Hirschberg

630
Citations
Tonal alignment patterns in Spanish

Pilar Prieto;Jan van Santen;Julia Hirschberg

554
Citations
Empirical studies on the disambiguation of cue phrases

Julia Hirschberg;Diane Litman

486
Citations
Evaluation of prosodic transcription labeling reliability in the tobi framework.

John F. Pitrelli;Mary E. Beckman;Julia Hirschberg

483
Citations
Artificial intelligence and life in 2030: the one hundred year study on artificial intelligence

Peter Stone;Rodney Brooks;Erik Brynjolfsson;Ryan Calo

394
Citations
THE INTONATIONAL STRUCTURING OF DISCOURSE

Julia Hirschberg;Janet Pierrehumbert

392
Citations
Pitch accent in context: predicting intonational prominence from text

Julia Hirschberg

381
Citations
Some Intonational Characteristics of Discourse Structure

Barbara J. Grosz;Julia Hirschberg

375
Citations
The character, value, and management of personal paper archives

Steve Whittaker;Julia Hirschberg

342
Citations
The INTERSPEECH 2016 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge: Deception, Sincerity & Native Language

Björn W. Schuller;Björn W. Schuller;Stefan Steidl;Anton Batliner;Anton Batliner;Julia Hirschberg

327
Citations
Automatic classification of intonational phrase boundaries

Michelle Q. Wang;Julia Hirschberg

311
Citations
Measuring acoustic-prosodic entrainment with respect to multiple levels and dimensions

Rivka Levitan;Julia Bell Hirschberg

300
Citations
A corpus-based study of repair cues in spontaneous speech.

Christine H. Nakatani;Julia Hirschberg

298
Citations
Turn-taking cues in task-oriented dialogue

Agustín Gravano;Julia Hirschberg

296
Citations
Progress in speech synthesis

Jan P. H. van Santen;Joseph P. Olive;Richard W. Sproat;Julia Hirschberg

241
Citations
Chapter 2: The Original ToBI System and the Evolution of the ToBI Framework

Mary E. Beckman;Julia Bell Hirschberg;Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel

3
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Steve Whittaker University of California, Santa Cruz

Marc Swerts Tilburg University

Diane J. Litman University of Pittsburgh

Gregory Ward Northwestern University

Kathleen R. McKeown Columbia University

Ani Nenkova Adobe Systems (United States)

Björn Schuller Imperial College London

Owen Rambow Stony Brook University

Elizabeth Shriberg International Computer Science Institute

Mona Diab Carnegie Mellon University

External Links

Wikipedia of Julia Hirschberg Personal website of Julia Hirschberg Google Scholar page

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