Mark Liberman
Trustee Professor of Phonetics and Professor
Computer and Information Science (CIS)
Research Expertise: Computational Linguistics
Mark studies the across several areas of linguistics, including phonology and phonetics of lexical tone, and its relationship to intonation; gestural, prosodic, morphological and syntactic ways of marking focus, and their use in discourse; formal models for linguistic annotation; and information retrieval and information extraction from text.
Recent Publications 
- Speech processing tools - An introduction to interoperability, Draxler, C. | Altosaar, T. | Furui, S. | Liberman, M. | Wittenburg, P., Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, 2011
- Automatic detection of "g-dropping" in American English using forced alignment, Yuan, J. | Liberman, M., 2011 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, ASRU 2011, Proceedings, 2011
- A new approach to lexical disambiguation of Arabic text, Shah, R. | Dhillon, P.S. | Liberman, M. | Foster, D. | Maamouri, M. | Ungar, L., EMNLP 2010 - Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference, 2010
- F 0 declination in English and Mandarin broadcast news speech, Yuan, J. | Liberman, M., Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010, 2010
- Robust speaking rate estimation using broad phonetic class recognition, Yuan, J. | Liberman, M., ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings, 2010