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Overview

Mark Liberman is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on areas within computer science and psychology.

Their work includes significant contributions to the subfields of artificial intelligence, cognitive neuroscience, developmental and educational psychology, signal processing, and psychiatry and mental health. These areas reflect a broad approach to understanding human language, cognition, and related disorders through computational and psychological methods.

Liberman's research topics cover a variety of subjects, including:

  • Neurobiology of language and bilingualism
  • Language development and disorders
  • Speech recognition and synthesis
  • Voice and speech disorders
  • Phonetics and phonology research
  • Dementia and cognitive impairment research
  • Music and audio processing

Their recent publications demonstrate an interdisciplinary focus on language and cognitive disorders, as well as computational approaches in neuroscience and artificial intelligence. Notable papers include:

  • Natural language processing methods are sensitive to sub-clinical linguistic differences in schizophrenia spectrum disorders, 2021, Schizophrenia
  • Birdsong Learning and Culture: Analogies with Human Spoken Language, 2020, Annual Review of Linguistics
  • Automated analysis of lexical features in frontotemporal degeneration, 2021, Cortex
  • Lexical and Acoustic Speech Features Relating to Alzheimer Disease Pathology, 2022, Neurology
  • The Future of Computational Linguistics: On Beyond Alchemy, 2021, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence

They frequently collaborate with other researchers, including Sunghye Cho, Naomi Nevler, Murray Grossman, Sharon Ash, and David J. Irwin. These partnerships contribute to a prolific output within their research domains.

Liberman publishes regularly in a range of venues that specialize in neurology, linguistics, and interdisciplinary scientific research. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neurology
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Best Publications

  • The intonational system of English

    Mark Yoffe Liberman

  • Speaker identification on the SCOTUS corpus

    Jiahong Yuan;Mark Liberman

  • Procedure for quantitatively comparing the syntactic coverage of English grammars

    S. Abney;S. Flickenger;C. Gdaniec;C. Grishman

  • A formal framework for linguistic annotation

    Steven Bird;Mark Liberman

  • UNIPEN project of on-line data exchange and recognizer benchmarks

    I. Guyon;L. Schomaker;R. Plamondon;M. Liberman

  • Transcriber: Development and use of a tool for assisting speech corpora production

    Claude Barras;Edouard Geoffrois;Zhibiao Wu;Mark Liberman

  • Towards an Integrated Understanding of Speaking Rate in Conversation

    Jiahong Yuan;Mark Liberman;Christopher Cieri

  • Integrated Annotation for Biomedical Information Extraction

    Seth Kulick;Ann Bies;Mark Liberman;Mark Mandel

  • The Stress and Structure of Modified Noun Phrases in English

    Mark Liberman;Richard Sproat

  • The Second DIHARD Diarization Challenge: Dataset, Task, and Baselines.

    Neville Ryant;Kenneth Church;Christopher Cieri;Alejandrina Cristià

  • Transcriber: a free tool for segmenting, labeling and transcribing speech

    Claude Barras;Edouard Geoffrois;Zhibiao Wu;Mark Liberman

  • Text Analysis and Word Pronunciation in Text-to-speech Synthesis

    Mark Y. Liberman;Kenneth W. Church

  • BITS: a method for bilingual text search over the Web

    Xiaoyi Ma;Mark Y. Liberman

  • ATLAS: A Flexible and Extensible Architecture for Linguistic Annotation

    Steven Bird;David Day;John S. Garofolo;John Henderson

  • Speech activity detection on youtube using deep neural networks.

    Neville Ryant;Mark Liberman;Jiahong Yuan

  • THE TDT-2 TEXT AND SPEECH CORPUS

    Chris Cieri;David Graff;Mark Liberman;Nii Martey

  • Synthesis by rule of english intonation patterns

    M. Anderson;J. Pierrehumbert;M. Liberman

  • The Phonetic Interpretation of Tone in Igbo

    M. Liberman;J. M. Schultz;Soonhyun Hong;V. Okeke

  • Natural language processing methods are sensitive to sub-clinical linguistic differences in schizophrenia spectrum disorders.

    Sunny X. Tang;Reno Kriz;Sunghye Cho;Suh Jung Park

  • A procedure for quantitatively comparing the syntactic coverage of English

    Ezra Black;Steven Abney;Dan Flickinger;Claudia Gdaniec

  • A Context Pattern Induction Method for Named Entity Extraction

    Partha Pratim Talukdar;Thorsten Brants;Mark Liberman;Fernando Pereira

  • The Third DIHARD Diarization Challenge

    Neville Ryant;Prachi Singh;Venkat Krishnamohan;Rajat Varma

  • A Formal Framework for Linguistic Annotation (revised version)

    Steven Bird;Mark Liberman

Frequent Co-Authors

Murray Grossman
Murray Grossman University of Pennsylvania
David J. Irwin
David J. Irwin University of Pennsylvania
Steven Bird
Steven Bird Charles Darwin University
Kenneth Church
Kenneth Church Baidu (China)
Robert T. Schultz
Robert T. Schultz Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Janet B. Pierrehumbert
Janet B. Pierrehumbert University of Oxford
Jun Du
Jun Du University of Science and Technology of China
Fernando Pereira
Fernando Pereira Google (United States)
Stephen E. Levinson
Stephen E. Levinson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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