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Sarah Ita Levitan

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Sarah Ita Levitan

 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1160-6169
20142026

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I was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Hunter College. Also, I was a member of the doctoral faculty at the CUNY Graduate Center, for both Computer Science and Linguistics PhD Programs. (https://cra.org/cra-wp/highlight-on-alum-sarah-ita-levitan/)

My research interests are in spoken language processing, which aims to teach computers to understand human speech. I am especially interested in paralinguistics, the study of non-verbal aspects of speech. I use computational approaches to extract and analyze acoustic-prosodic and lexical features to learn information about a speaker or their speech. My recent projects include detecting deceptive and trustworthy language, detecting misinformation and hate speech on social media, and understanding and predicting radicalization online.

I was previously a Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University. I obtained my PhD in Computer Science at Columbia University in 2019, advised by Dr. Julia Hirschberg. My PhD was funded through an NSF-GRFP fellowship and an NSF IGERT fellowship.

Research

  • Fields of Interest
  • Language Analysis
  • Identifying Deceptive Speech Across Cultures
  • Identifying Deceptive Speech Across CulturesTrust and Mistrust in Spoken and Written Language
  • f0 (fundamental frequency) trajectory
  • Automatic Gender Identification from Speech

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  • 24 Conference contribution
  • 12 Conference article
  • 5 Article

  • Council of LLMs: Evaluating Capability of Large Language Models to Annotate Propaganda

    Sharma, V., Jain, S., Shokri, M. M., Levitan, S. I. & Filatova, E., 2026, WASSA 2026 - 15th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis, Proceedings of the Workshop. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 1-12 12 p. (WASSA 2026 - 15th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis, Proceedings of the Workshop).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    Open Access

  • The Impact of Highlighting Subjective Language on Perceived News Trustworthiness

    Shokri, M., Sharma, V., Klapper, E., Filatova, E., Jain, S. & Levitan, S. I., 2026, WASSA 2026 - 15th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis, Proceedings of the Workshop. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 60-72 13 p. (WASSA 2026 - 15th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis, Proceedings of the Workshop).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    Open Access

  • Analysis of Propaganda in Tweets From Politically Biased Sources

    Sharma, V., Shokri, M. M., Levitan, S. I., Filatova, E. & Jain, S., 14 May 2025, In: Proceedings of the International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, FLAIRS. 38

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article › peer-review

    Open Access
    2 Scopus citations

  • Beyond Face Value: Visual and Auditory Signals in Human and Machine Trust Judgments

    Tyulina, N., Yu, Y., Emmanouil, T. A. & Levitan, S. I., 7 Jul 2025, CUI 2025 - Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 26. (CUI 2025 - Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    1 Scopus citations

  • Detecting Trust Calibration Traits in AI with EEG Signals for Speech Deception

    Tutul, A. A., Chaspari, T., Levitan, S. I. & Hirschberg, J., 22 Sep 2025, HHAI 2025 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence. Pedreschi, D., Milano, M., Tiddi, I., Russell, S., Boldrini, C., Pappalardo, L., Passerini, A. & Wang, S. (eds.). IOS Press BV, p. 122-137 16 p. (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications; vol. 408).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    Open Access
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