Awards & Honors
  • 2021

  • Best Short Paper Award, EMNLP 2021
  • 2020

  • Amazon Scholar
  • ISCA Special Service Medal
  • 2018

  • Honorary Doctorate (eredoctoraat), Tilburg University, Netherlands
  • Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS)
  • 2017

  • Elected to the National Academy of Engineering
  • Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
  • Fillmore Prefessor of the Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute
  • 2016

  • Best Paper Award for an article appearing in Computer Speech and Language
  • Fellow of the Association for Computing Machines
  • 2015

  • Best Paper Award, Cognitive 2015
  • 2014

  • Best Student Paper Award, Speech Prosody 2014
  • Elected to American Philosophical Society.
  • Elected Honorary Member, Association for Laboratory Phonology
  • 2012

  • Best Paper Award, CogInfoCom 2012
  • 2011

  • Founding Fellow, Association for Computational Linguistics
  • IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award
  • International Speech Communication Association Medal for Scientific Achievement
  • 2009

  • Columbia Engineering School Alumni Association Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award
  • 2008

  • Fellow, International Speech Communication Association
  • 2007

  • Honorary Doctorate (Hedersdoktor), KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Stockholm
  • 2005

  • IBM Faculty Award.
  • Best Paper Award for a paper appearing in Speech Communication in 2003-2004 (given by EURASIP) for "Prosodic and other cues to speech recognition failures," Julia Hirschberg, Diane Litman, and Marc
    Swerts, 2004.
  • 1994

  • Fellow, American Association for Artificial Intelligence
  • Best Paper Award, Journal of the American Voice I/O Society (AVIOS)
  • 1982–1985

  • IBM Dissertation Fellowship, Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania

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Julia Hirschberg
Professor, Computer Science

Columbia University
Department of Computer Science
1214 Amsterdam Avenue
M/C 0401
450 CS Building
New York, NY 10027

email: julia@cs.columbia.edu
phone: (212) 853-8464

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