--- title: "Rivka Levitan — author profile and papers · Dialogue systems" description: "Rivka Levitan, The Graduate Center, CUNY: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2021–2024), h-index 23 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rivka-levitan/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rivka-levitan/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Rivka Levitan # Rivka Levitan Rivka Levitan has 2 papers in our library, in 2021–2024, most of them on [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/), [Hebrew & Aramaic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/hebrew-aramaic/), [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/); often with [Julia Hirschberg](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/julia-hirschberg/). 2 papers in our library · 2021–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5047073879) · [**h-index 23**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5047073879) · [56 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5047073879) · [1,375 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5047073879&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rivka-levitan/#papers) · 🔗 Cited 5 times in our library · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10747](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/108/#star-10747) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Rivka+Levitan) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Rivka+Levitan) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Rivka+Levitan) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Rivka+Levitan) ## Affiliations [🎓**Brooklyn College** Brooklyn · United States 2015–2025 · 19 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/brooklyn-college/) · [🎓**The Graduate Center, CUNY** New York · United States 2019–2025 · 8 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-graduate-center-cuny/) · [🎓**Columbia University** New York · United States 2011–2015 · 17 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/columbia-university/) · [🎓**City University of New York** New York · United States 2016–2022 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/city-university-of-new-york/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Experimental and Cognitive Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/experimental-and-cognitive-psychology/) · [Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Dialogue systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Hebrew & Aramaic · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/hebrew-aramaic/) · [Modern Hebrew · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/modern-hebrew/) · [Semitic languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rivka-levitan/year/2024/) · [**2021** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rivka-levitan/year/2021/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **["Talk to me with left, right, and angles": Lexical entrainment in spoken Hebrew dialogue](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/weise-2021-talk-me-left-right-angles/)** *(2021 · 4 citations)* The question is whether Hebrew speakers adapt their word choice to each other in a Map Task, as English speakers do. 2. **[”You should probably read this”: Hedge Detection in Text](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/katerenchuk-2024-should-probably-read-this-hedge/)** *(2024)* The paper addresses sentence-level hedge detection. The task is to decide whether a sentence signals that the writer is unsure of a claim, which matters in high-stakes fields such as medicine or finance. The authors use the Wikipedia portion of the CoNLL-2010 shared task, which is harder than the BioScope portion… ## All works 3 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Speech vs. text: A comparative analysis of features for depression detection systems ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/slt.2016.7846256) IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT) · no summary yet**Michelle Renee Morales, Rivka Levitan*2016 · 72 citations* 2. [**"Talk to me with left, right, and angles": Lexical entrainment in spoken Hebrew dialogue**Andreas Weise, Vered Silber-Varod, Anat Lerner, et al.*Modern Hebrew · 4 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/weise-2021-talk-me-left-right-angles/) 3. [**”You should probably read this”: Hedge Detection in Text arXiv:2405.13319**Denys Katerenchuk, Rivka Levitan*2024*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/katerenchuk-2024-should-probably-read-this-hedge/) ## Co-authors here 1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first. - [Julia Hirschberg](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/julia-hirschberg/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/): [EACL 2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/2021/) - IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 5 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read). Updated 30 October 2026