Mari Ostendorf
System Design Methodologies Professor; Vice Provost for Research
Researches speech and language processing, including conversational AI and computational models of prosody.
Mari Ostendorf's lab at UW works on speech recognition & spoken language, affective & health speech and dialogue, generation & summarization. 14 papers since 2023, 9 at top venues, mostly ICLR and NeurIPS. 9 alumni, most often to Google and Microsoft. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 4/ year
- at T1 venues
- 64%
- PhD students
- 0
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 9
Papers by yearfrom DBLP, 2023–2026
- 2 papers2026 · T1 1 · collecting
- 0 papers2025 · T1 0
- 4 papers2024 · T1 3
- 8 papers2023 · T1 5
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ICLR, NeurIPS, ACL, Findings of ACL, ICASSP
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Speech recognition & spoken language7 papers
- Dialogue, generation & summarization3 papers
- Affective & health speech2 papers
- conversational1 paper
- researches speech0 papers
Paper list
From DBLP.
20262 papers
20244 papers
- Interspeech (T1)Investigating the Influence of Stance-Taking on Conversational Timing of Task-Oriented Speech (opens in a new tab)
- SLTJust ASR + LLM? A Study on Speech Large Language Models' Ability to Identify And Understand Speaker in Spoken Dialogue (opens in a new tab)
- NAACL (T1)OrchestraLLM: Efficient Orchestration of Language Models for Dialogue State Tracking (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Visual Sketchpad: Sketching as a Visual Chain of Thought for Multimodal Language Models (opens in a new tab)
20238 papers
- ICLR (T1)Binding Language Models in Symbolic Languages (opens in a new tab)
- ClinicalNLP@ACLBuilding blocks for complex tasks: Robust generative event extraction for radiology reports under domain shifts (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Fine-Grained Human Feedback Gives Better Rewards for Language Model Training (opens in a new tab)
- Trans. Assoc. Comput. LinguisticsInSCIt: Information-Seeking Conversations with Mixed-Initiative Interactions (opens in a new tab)
- ICASSP (T1)Leveraging Multiple Sources in Automatic African American English Dialect Detection for Adults and Children (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of ACLOne Embedder, Any Task: Instruction-Finetuned Text Embeddings (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Selective Annotation Makes Language Models Better Few-Shot Learners (opens in a new tab)
- ICCV (T1)TIFA: Accurate and Interpretable Text-to-Image Faithfulness Evaluation with Question Answering (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went9 listed, 67% to industry
Industry 6Academia 3
Most often to
- Microsoft
- Citadel
Also to
- National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
- USC
Apply to UWFall 2027
UW Allen School Computer Science PhD
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- Opens
- GRE
- not required
- English
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Not yet confirmed for this intake.
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