Julia B. Hirschberg
Also known as Julia Hirschberg
Julia B. Hirschberg studies spoken language and built a research group that examines speech, dialogue and human communication. Hirschberg worked at Bell Laboratories and AT&T Laboratories–Research from 1985 to 2003. She served as a technical staff member and department head, creating the Human-Computer Interface Research Department. She earned a computer science doctorate from Pennsylvania. Hirschberg founded Columbia’s Spoken Language Processing Group. Her lab studies emotion, sentiment, deception, dialogue systems and text-to-speech synthesis, including low-resource languages. The lab also collects and analyzes speech data and builds speech technologies.
- Now at
- Columbia University
- Works
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- Citations
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- 67
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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1985–2003
Speech and human interfaces in industry
Hirschberg worked at Bell Laboratories and AT&T Laboratories–Research from 1985 to 2003. She served as a technical staff member and department head, creating the Human-Computer Interface Research Department. She earned a computer science doctorate from Pennsylvania.
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1993–2007
Research publication and community leadership
She edited Computational Linguistics from 1993 to 2003 and coedited Speech Communication from 2003 to 2006. She was president of the International Speech Communication Association from 2005 to 2007.
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2011–2018
Recognition and academic leadership
Hirschberg received the IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award and the ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement in 2011. She chaired Columbia’s Computer Science Department from 2012 to 2018.
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As of October 2026
A group for spoken language processing
Hirschberg founded Columbia’s Spoken Language Processing Group. The lab studies emotion, sentiment, deception, dialogue systems and text-to-speech synthesis, including low-resource languages. The lab also collects and analyzes speech data and builds speech technologies.
Sources and credits
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