Ani Nenkova
Aravind Joshi Term Assistant Professor
Computer and Information Science (CIS)
Honors and Awards: NSF CAREER Award - 2010
Research Expertise: Computational linguistics | Artificial Intelligence
Ani works in the area of natural language processing, focusing on automatic summarization, text generation, discourse and prosody. She is addressing the increasing need for intelligent summarization systems brought on by the proliferation of textual information in electronic form. Ani's research has addressed challenges in summarization, including identifying important content to include in the summary, automatic revision of human written text to better fit in the new context of the summary, and automatic identification of inputs that current systems handle poorly.
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Recent Publications 
- Automatically assessing machine summary content without a gold standard, Louis, A. | Nenkova, A., Computational Linguistics, 2013
- Combining video, audio and lexical indicators of affect in spontaneous conversation via particle filtering, Savran, A. | Cao, H. | Shah, M. | Nenkova, A. | Verma, R., ICMI'12 - Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 2012
- Animating synthetic dyadic conversations with variations based on context and agent attributes, Sun, L. | Shoulson, A. | Huang, P. | Nelson, N. | Qin, W. | Nenkova, A. | Badler, N.I., Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, 2012
- Acoustic and prosodic correlates of social behavior, Gravano, A. | Levitan, R. | Willson, L. | Beňuš, S. | Hirschberg, J. | Nenkova, A., Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, 2011
- Information status distinctions and referring expressions: An empirical study of references to people in news summaries, Siddharthan, A. | Nenkova, A. | McKeown, K., Computational Linguistics, 2011