Esther Levin

esther AT spacegate DOT com

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Education

• PhD (Electrical Engineering) Technion, Israeli Institute of Technology - 1988.
• MSc (Electrical Engineering) Technion, Israeli Institute of Technology - 1984.
• BSc (Electrical Engineering) Technion, Israeli Institute of Technology - 1982.

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Research Interests

• Spoken language human-machine interactions
• Speech recognition
• Spoken language understanding
• spoken dialog systems
• Indexing and information retrieval
• Statistical learning theory.

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Current Research Projects

• Spoken Dialog System for Real-Time Data Capture
• Using LSA to Compute Word Sense Frequencies (This project is sponsored by a grant from Air Force Research Lab)
• Unsupervised Learning from Interactions for Spoken Dialog Systems
• Automated Voice Interface to Large Directories

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Teaching

• I9603: Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition- Spring 2004
• CSC 212 Data Structures - Spring 2006
• Senior Capstone 1- Fall 2006 & Spring 20067
• Reading in Speech and Natural Language Processing

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Professional Experience

• 2003- 2007 Professor in department of Computer Science, City College of New York.
• 1999 - 2003: Chief Scientist at Telelogue Inc.
• 1996 - 1999: Senior member of technical staff at AT&T Shannon Research Labs.
• 1988 - 1996: Member of technical staff at AT&T Bell Labs.

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Selected Publications.