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Director of the Open Media and Information Lab (OMILab), The Open University of Israel. Former Research Fellow at The Research Center for Innovation in Learning Technologies​, The Open University of Israel. Research interests and publications focus on various aspects of speech sciences, with expertise in speech prosody, acoustic phonetics, and speech communication and text analytics. Honored to be part of the WomenNSpeech list. Currently the treasurer-Secretary, The Haiim B. Rosen Israeli Linguistic Society.
Complementary undergraduate studies, Department of Hebrew and Semitic Languages, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
B.A., Political Science and French Language and Literature, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
In recognition of your contribution to the high standard and quality of the papers published in Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (PSiCL), we wish to award you a Certificate of Excellence in Reviewing.
Fellow and Distinguished scholar, Knowledge Management Conference 2016 (KM 2016), Lisbon, Portugal, June 22-25, 2016.
Dov Sadan Foundation Grant, The Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies, Tel Aviv University.
Student Services Division scholarship, Tel Aviv University.
Ignatz Bubis scholarship, Hebrew sciences, Tel Aviv University.
Yaakobi scholarship, School of Hebrew and Semitic Languages, Tel Aviv University.
Member of International Review Board, Online Journal of Applied Knowledge Management (OJAKM).
Silber-Varod, V. (2018). Is human-human spoken interaction manageable? The emergence of the concept Conversation Intelligence. Online Journal of Applied Knowledge Management (OJAKM). A Publication of the International Institute for Applied Knowledge Management, 6(1), 1-14.
Silber-Varod, V., Latin, M., & Moyal, A. (2017). Frequency of Hebrew phonemes and phoneme clusters in a data-driven approach. (in Hebrew). Literacy and Language (Oryanut Ve-Safa), 6, 22-36.
Silber-Varod, V. & Amir, N. (2016). Formant analysis of the mid-front vowel as realized in hesitation disfluencies in Hebrew. Phonetician (A Peer-Reviewed Journal of ISPhS/International Society of Phonetic Sciences), 113, 49-60.
Silber-Varod, V. (2016). Review of Sun-Ah Jun (Ed.). 2014. Prosodic Typology: The Phonology of Intonation and Phrasing, Oxford: Oxford University Press (ix + 462 pp + a CD., including: Preface, List of Contributors and Index, wav files demos, ISBN 019-924963-6). The Phonetician (a publication of the ISPHS – International Society of Phonetic Sciences), Vol. 111/112, pp. 89-93.
Gonen, E., Silber-Varod, V., & Reshef, Y. (2016). A Corpus of Recordings of Spoken Hebrew from the 1960s: Textual Samples. Karmilim 12 (Ha-Ivrit Ve-Achyoteha - Studies in Hebrew Language and its Contact with Semitic Languages and Jewish Languages). Haifa University and Ben Zvi Institute, pp. 129-150. (In Hebrew; English abstract).
Silber-Varod, V. (2013). Structural analysis of prosodic pattern: The case of excessive prolongations in Israeli Hebrew. Revista Leitura, Special Issue on Speech Prosody, Vol. 52, 271-291.
Silber-Varod, V. (2012). Hesitation disfluencies or predictable patterns? Towards a definition of Continuous Elongation as prosodic boundary tone. Hebrew Linguistics A Journal for Hebrew Descriptive Computational Linguistics 66, 83-105. (in Hebrew; English abstract).
Mettouchi, A., Lacheret-Dujour, A., Silber-Varod, V., & Izre’el, S. (2007). Only Prosody? Perception of Speech Segmentation in Kabyle and Hebrew. Nouveaux cahiers de linguistique française 28, 207-218.
Silber-Varod, V. 2013. The SpeeCHain Perspective: Form and Function of Prosodic Boundary Tones in Spontaneous Spoken Hebrew. LAMBERT Academic Publishing.
Silber-Varod, V. (2014). Dependencies over prosodic boundary tones in Spontaneous Spoken Hebrew. In K. Gerdes, E. Hajičová, and L. Wanner (Eds.), Dependency Linguistics. Recent advances in linguistic theory using dependency structures (pp. 207-228), Studies in Language Companion Series, John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Silber-Varod, V., Khorshidi, N., Levi, L., & Amir, N. (2019). The Influence of lexical stress on formant values in spontaneous Hebrew speech. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. to be held in Melbourne 5–9 August 2019.
SIlber-Varod, V., Kreiner, H., & Amir, N. (2018). Context dependent and time-course dependent prosodic analysis. TAL 2018: Sixth International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages, Beuth University Berlin, Berlin, Germany, June 18-20, 2018.
Silber-Varod, V., Lerner, A., Jokisch, O. (2017). Automatic Speaker's Role Classification With a Bottom-up Acoustic Feature Selection. Proc. GLU 2017 International Workshop on Grounding Language Understanding, 52-56, DOI: 10.21437/GLU.2017-11.
Silber-Varod, V., & Lerner, A. (2017). Analysis of silences in unbalanced dialogues: the effect of genre and role. In: R. Eklund & R. Rose (eds.), Proceedings of DiSS 2017, the 8th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech, 18–19 August 2017, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm Sweden, TMH-QPSR Volume 58(1), ISSN M1104-5787, ISRN KTH/CSC/TMH-17/01-SE, pp. 53–56.
Silber-Varod, V., Iaroshenko, V., & Jokisch, O., (2016). Subjective evaluation of voice conversion performance: Towards an understanding of how non-linguistic conditions change our voice. Proceedings of 27th Conference Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung (ESSV 2016), Leipzig, Germany, 2-4 March, 2016.
Silber-Varod, V., & Geri, N. (2014). Error Diagnosis and Classification of Errors in two Hebrew State-of-the-Art Speech Recognition Systems. Proceedings of 2014 Speech Processing Conference Afeka, Tel-Aviv, Israel July 7-8, 2014.
Faust Noam and Silber-Varod, Vered. (2013). Modern Hebrew Prepositions are Enclitics: Converging Evidence from Lexical Morpho-Phonology and Natural Speech Segmentation. In: Melnik N. (Ed.), Proceedings of IATL29 (Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics) (pp. 71-92). MIT Working Papers in Linguistics (MWPL).
Silber-Varod, V., & Maruyama, T. (2013). The Linguistic Role of Hesitation Disfluencies: Evidence from Hebrew and Japanese. DiSS 2013: The 6th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, August 2013.
Bar-Yosef, Y., Aloni-Lavi, R., Opher, I., Tetariy, E., Dudy, S., Silber-Varod, V., Aharonson, V., & Moyal, A. (2013). Phonetic-Search in a New Target Language using Multi-language Indexing and Phonetic Mappings. 2013 Afeka Speech Processing Conference, July 1-2, 2013, Tel Avivs.
Levy, T., Silber-Varod, V., & Moyal, A., (2012). The Effect of Pitch, Intensity and Pause Duration in Punctuation Detection. IEEE 27-th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel IEEEI 2012, November 14-17, 2012, Eilat, Israel.
Lotner, N., Tetariy, E., Silber-Varod, V., Aharonson, V., Moyal, A., Aloni-Lavi, R., Bar-Yosef, Y., & Opher, I. (2012). Cross-Language Phoneme Recognition for Under-Resourced Languages. IEEE 27-th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel IEEEI 2012, November 14-17, 2012, Eilat, Israel.
Bar-Yosef, Y., Opher, I., Aloni-Lavi, R., Lotner, N., Tetariy, E., Silber-Varod, V., Aharonson, V., & Moyal, A. (2012). Automatic Learning of Phonetic Mappings for Cross-Language Phonetic-Search in Keyword Spotting. IEEE 27-th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel IEEEI 2012, November 14-17, 2012, Eilat, Israel.
Aharonson, E., Aharonson, V., Porat, T., & Silber-Varod, V. (2012). The perceptual effect of prosody in voice-activated system responses. Paper presented at 2012 Speech Processing Conference, Tel-Aviv, Israel, June 19-20, 2012.
Silber-Varod, V. & Kessous, L. (2008). Prosodic boundary patterns in Hebrew: A case study of continuous intonation units in weather forecast. In P. A. Barbosa, S. Madureira,and C. Reis, (Eds.), Proceedings of the Speech Prosody 2008 Conference, Campinas, Brazil: Editora RG/CNPq., pp 265-268.
Amir, N., Silber-Varod, V., & Izre’el, S. (2004). Characteristics of intonation unit boundaries in spontaneous spoken Hebrew: Perception and acoustic correlates, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Speech Prosody - SP2004, Nara, Japan, 2004, pp. 677-680.
Silber-Varod, V. & Amir, N. (2017). "When two giants meet": The interaction between lexical stress and utterance-final prosody in spoken Hebrew. Presented at the Workshop on Challenges in Analysis and Processing of Spontaneous Speech (CAPSS2017), Budapest, May 14–17, 2017.
Silber-Varod, V. (2016). Dynamics in dialogues: The transitions and junctures in spoken dialogues. Presented at the Humboldt-Colloquium "Bridges to the Future: German-Israeli Scientific Relations", 21-23 September 2016, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Blau, I., & Silber-Varod, V. (2016). Narrating and Sharing Audio Books: A Call for a Multicultural Perspective of Knowledge Production and Management. Proceedings of Knowledge Management Conference 2016 (KM 2016) (p. 41). Lisbon, Portugal, June, 21-25, 2016. This abstract was awarded as "Best Idea Research Award" by International Institute for Applied Knowledge Management (IIAKM).
Silber-Varod, V., Weiss, A., & Amir, N. (2015). Can You Hear These Mid-Front Vowels? Formants Analysis of Hesitation Disfluencies in Spontaneous Hebrew. Poster presented at Diss2015 (The research workshop series on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech), Edinburgh, United Kingdom, August 8-9, 2015.
Silber-Varod, V., Winer, A., &Geri, N. (2015). Knowledge Dam: Making Video Lectures Searchable by Using Automatic Speech and Text Recognition Technologies in Under-Resourced Languages. To be presented at The 3rd Knowledge Management Conference (KM 2015), June 24-27, 2015, The University of Economics in Katowice, Poland.
Silber-Varod, V., Azogui, J., and Lerner, A. (2015). Towards the compilation of a Hebrew Map Task Corpus. Presented at The 2015 Afeka Conference for Speech Processing, Tel Aviv, June 16, 2015. http://www.afekaconference.co.il/sp2015/Program/Workgroups.
Lis Hacohen, R., Silber-Varod, R., Blau, I. (2015). Gender Differences in Collaborative Digital Navigation: Active Participation and Driver’s Perception of Information Accuracy. Learning in the Technological Era: Proceedings of the 10th Chais Conference for the Study of Innovation and Learning Technologies. In Y. Eshet-Alkalai, I. Blau, A. Caspi, N. Geri, Y. Kalman, V. Silber-Varod (Eds.), Raanana: The Open University of Israel. pp. 236-237.
Silber-Varod, V., & Geri, N. (2014). Can Automatic Speech Recognition be Satisficing for Audio/Video Search? Keyword-Focused Analysis of Hebrew Automatic and Manual Transcription. The 2nd Knowledge Management Conference (KM 2014), June 25-28, 2014, The American University in Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria.
Silber-Varod, V. (2013). Prosody-syntax interface of hesitation disfluencies and other prosodic boundaries. 16th World Congress of Jewish Studies. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. July 28th-August 1st 2013.
Levy, Tal, Vered Silber-Varod, and Ami Moyal. 2012. Automatic Speech Punctuation Using Prosodic Cues. Acoustics and Audio 2012, September 13, 2012, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Silber-Varod, Vered. 2012. The pronominal nature of hesitation disfluencies: evidence from Spontaneous Spoken Hebrew. The Fifth International Conference on Cognitive Science, Kaliningrad, Russia, June 19-23, 2012.
Silber-Varod, Vered. 2011. The SpeeCHain Perspective: Prosody-Syntax Interface in Spontaneous Spoken Hebrew. IGDAL 2011 - First International Graduate Student Conference on Diverse Approaches to Linguistics, Jerusalem, October 23, 2011.
Geri, N., Caspi, A., Kalman, Y. M., Silber-Varod, V., Yair, Y., & Eshet-Alkalai, Y., (2014). Introduction to the IJELLO special series of Chais Conference 2014 best papers. Interdisciplinary Journal of E-Learning and Learning Objects, 10, 123-130.
Research grant from the Research Authority, The Open University (40,000 ILS) for conducting a research on "Analysis of Acoustic and physiological signals for identifying childhood Apraxia of speech" (in collaboration with Dr. Diamnta Benson, Dr. Ofer Levy, Dr. Anat Lerner, and Dr. Elad Vashdi).
Research scholarship for young academics and scientists 2015 (#50015559), funded by German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)) for conducting a research on "Evaluation of a Speaker's Voice in Different Social and Cultural contexts by Voice Conversion Methods" (in collaboration with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Oliver Jokisch, Leipzig University of Telecommunication (HfTL), Germany).
Research grant # 504292from the Research Authority, The Open University (ILS 37,280) for conducting a research on "A decade of learning technologies research: Trends and tendencies in Chais conferences discourse" (in collaboration with Prof. Yoram Eshet-Alkalai and Dr. Nitza Geri).
Research grant # 502532from the Research Authority, The Open University (ILS 31,967) for conducting a research on "An Evaluation of Hebrew Automatic Speech Recognition Transcriptions: Toward Automatic Video Indexation and Transcription" (in collaboration with Dr. Nitza Geri).
These are typical hesitation disfluencies utterances of colloquial Hebrew.
Discourse analysis studies examine the way speakers project their identity, and their social characteristics, via content analysis. This session aims to merge two domains – speech analytics and discourse studies – by tracing the linguist, prosodic and acoustic footprints of extra-linguistic information of the individual speaker per se and the speaker in relations to other interlocutors in the conversation. The focus of the session will be the process whereby speakers position themselves perceptibly and subjectively in jointly produced conversations. The term positioning reflects the dynamic aspects of power relations in an interaction, which is not necessarily congruent with the term role, which serves to emphasize static and formal relations. We encourage contributions that target to process large scale discourse units (public speech, dialogues, and multi-party conversations), synergistically integrate techniques from the fields of speech analytics and discourse studies, or develop novel theory or methodologies for the study of positioning in conversations. The topics include (but are not limited to): Interactive Communication Management (ICM), conversational systems, conversation intelligence platform, positioning and power relations, conversation infographics, speech analytics.
Lecturer, Advanced Phonology, Department of Lin guistic, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Lecturer, Phonology, Department of Linguistic and the Department of Hebrew Language, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Lab Instructor, Introduction to Natural Language Processing, The department of Electrical Engineering, Afeka Tel Aviv Academic College of Engineering.
Hebrew teacher at DiAlog Language School, The Open University of Israel.
Hebrew teacher at Rothberg International School, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Student: Ms. Nitzan Bechar Marom, M.A. Thesis on Prosodic characteristics of Narrow Focus in Hebrew,Department of Communication Disorders, Tel Aviv University.
Student: Ms. Tzafnat Sofer, Final M.A. project on Narrow Focus in Spontaneous speech, Department of Communication Disorders, Tel Aviv University.
Student: Ms. Veronica Gelfgat, Graduate seminar paper and final M.Sc. paper on "Classification of silent pauses in speech via machine learning methods", M.Sc. in Computer Science, The Open University of Israel.
Student: Mr. Eitan Weitzman, Graduate seminar paper on "Scripting with PRAAT software", and final paper towards M.Sc. in Computer Science, The Open University of Israel.
Student: Mr. Jacob Azogui, Graduate Project on "The Hebrew Map Task database – Corpus Compilation and feature extraction", and final paper towards M.Sc. in Computer Science, The Open University of Israel.
Student: Mrs. Ronit Lis-Hacohen, M.A. Thesis on "Gender gap in shared navigation app?", M.A. in Education: “Learning Technologies” and “Learning Systems”, The Open University of Israel.
Co-supervision with Mrs. Keren Kalif.
Student: Mr. Igor Benjaminov, Final B.Sc. Project on "A support System for filling a Lawsuit According to Precedence", Department of Software Engineering, Afeka Academic College of Engineering.
Co-supervision with Prof. Ami Moyal.
Student: Mr. Tal Levy, Final B.Sc. Project on "Automatic Speech Transcription and Punctuation", Department of Electrical Engineering, Afeka Academic College of Engineering.
2018, Memebr, Organizing Committee, Web Archiving: Best Practices for Digital Cultural Heritage, The Open Media and Information Lab (OmiLab) and The National Library of Israel, April, 29-30, 2018.
2017 Member, Program Committee, The 5th Knowledge Management Conference (KM 2017), organized by the International Institute for Applied Knowledge Management (IIAKM), Novo mesto, Slovenia, June 21-24, 2017.
2017 Member, Scientific Committee, The 8th workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS 2015), will be held in Stockholm, Sweden, 18-19, August, 2017.
2017 Member, International Advisory Board, Challenges in analysis and processing of spontaneous speech (CAPSS2017), will be held in Budapest, Hungary, May 14-17, 2017.
2016-2017 Member, Program Committee, The 12th Chais Conference on Innovation in Learning Technologies, The Open University of Israel, Raanana, February 14-15, 2016.
2016-2017 Chair, Organizing Committee, Learning in the Digital Era: The 12th Research Conference of the Research Center for Innovation in Learning Technologies, The Research Center for Innovation in Learning Technologies, The Open University of Israel, Ra'anana, February 13-15, 2017.
2016 Member, Program Committee, the 4th Knowledge Management Conference (KM 2016), organized by the International Institute for Applied Knowledge Management (IIAKM), Lisbon, Portugal, June 22-25, 2016.
2016 Chair, The 32nd Annual Meeting of The Haiim B. Rosén Israeli Linguistic Society, The Open University of Israel, Ra'anana, February 9, 2016.
2016 Chair, Organizing Committee, Learning in the Digital Era: The 11th Research Conference of the Research Center for Innovation in Learning Technologies, The Research Center for Innovation in Learning Technologies, The Open University of Israel, Ra'anana, February 14-16, 2016.
2015 Chair, the Language Resources Workgroup, The 2015 Afeka Conference for Speech Processing, July 16, 2015, Afeka Academic College of Engineering, Tel Aviv.
2015 Co-Chair of the Organizing Committee, The Annual Meeting of the Israeli Seminar on Computational Linguistics (ISCOL 2015), The Open University of Israel, Ra'anana.
2015 Chair, Organizing Committee, Learning in the Digital Era: The 10th Research Conference of the Research Center for Innovation in Learning Technologies, The Research Center for Innovation in Learning Technologies, The Open University of Israel, Ra'anana.
2014 Chair, Organizing Committee, Learning in the Digital Era: The 9th Research Conference of the Research Center for Innovation in Learning Technologies, The Research Center for Innovation in Learning Technologies, The Open University of Israel, Ra'anana.
2013-2015 Member, Program Committee, Afeka Conference for Speech Processing (ACSP), the Afeka Academic College of Engineering, Tel Aviv.
2014-2016 Paper reviews for international conferences: Speech Prosody 2016, Knowledge Management 2014, 2015, 2016; Human Computer Interaction ACM SIG-CHI 2015.
2014 Proofreading and translation of the Hebrew stemmas (sections and diagrams) in Tesnière, L. 2014. Elements of structural syntax. Translated by T. Osborne and S. Kahane, John Benjamins Publishing Company.
2013 A. Lacheret, S. Kahane, & P. Pietrandrea, éds. (sous contrat, in press). Rhapsodie : a prosodic syntactic treebank of spoken French. John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam-Philadelphia.
2019-2022 Treasurer and Secretary, The Haiim B. Rosen Israeli Linguistic Society.
2013-2015 Language and linguistics consultant for language skills in an e-learning environment, The Center for Educational Technology (CET), Tel Aviv.
2000-2012 Technical editor (Hebrew language editor) at The Open University of Israel. Including the book Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics (4 volumes). Ra'anana: The Open University of Israel.
September, 2006 Participation in IDP05 (Discourse- Prosody Interface 2005), Aix-en-Provence, France.
2002-2003 Participation in IALS research and discussion group; Issue: Spoken Hebrew.
2018. Conversation, silence, and everything in between: Mining of information and the production of knowledge from the audio signal. OMILAB, 24.10.2018.
2018. Opening the knowledge treasures that are locked in audio and video - principles and vision. The 3rd meeting of Digital Humanities in Israel. University of Haifa, 27.2.2018.
2017. Rethinking access tools for researching multimodal digital collections, XIVth Annual International Conference for Professionals in Cultural Heritage, Monday 13th and Tuesday 14th November, 2017 at the Van Leer Jerusalem, Institute.
2017. Hands-on workshop on Praat software, The Institute of Information Processing and Decision Making (IIPDM), Universityof Haifa, October, 19, 2017.
2016. A Linguistic Perspective on Hesitation Disfluencies: Evidence from Hebrew and Japanese, Tel Aviv University, March 3rd, 2016.
2015. Prosody – the Other Element of Speech. Department of Semitic Linguistics, Tel Aviv University, December 6th, 2015. (in Hebrew(.
2015. Prosody – Analyzing the Hidden Information in Speech. Hochschule für Telekommunikation Leipzig (HfTL), November 25th, 2015.
2015. Prosody – Analyzing the Hidden Information in Speech: Evidence from Sociolinguistic Research. Quality and Usability Lab, Telekom Innovation Laboratories, Technische Universität Berlin, November 23rd, 2015.
2014. Speech prosody: The hidden increment in speech. A seminar lecture at the Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology. Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, May 5th, 2014.
2013. Cliticization of prepositions: Converging evidence from prosodic and morpho-syntactic analyses. The bi-weekly seminar of the Language, Logic and Cognition Center of the Hebrew University, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, April 22, 2013 (w/Faust Noam ​).
23.6.2013: Between the spoken and the written language. Seminar for teachers of the Russian language, Unit for the Professional Advancement of Educators, The Open University of Israel.
23.6.2013: On the penetration of foreign languages to mother-tongue language. Seminar for teachers of the Russian language. Unit for the Professional Advancement of Educators, The Open University of Israel.
23.6.2013: Speech prosody. Seminar for teachers of the Russian language. Unit for the Professional Advancement of Educators, The Open University of Israel.
23.12.2013: Video in language education. Online Seminar for CET teachers. The Center for Educational Technology (CET).
4.2.2014: Video in teaching. Seminar for teachers of pupils with special needs. The Center for Educational Technology (CET).
10.3.2014: Report and Argumentation in the Spoken Language. Online Seminar for CET teachers. The Center for Educational Technology (CET).
13.3.2014: The self and others in the mirror of the language. Seminar for teachers of the Russian language. Unit for the Professional Advancement of Educators, The Open University of Israel.

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