Stephanie Seneff

Stephanie Seneff is a Senior Research Scientist in the Computer Science and Artficial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT. She received the B.S. degree in Biophysics from MIT in 1968, the M.S. and E.E. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1980, and the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering in 1985, also from MIT. Her research interests have encompassed many aspects of the development of computer conversational systems, including speech recognition, natural language parsing, discourse and dialogue modelling, language generation, and information summarization. She has published over 170 refereed articles on these subjects, and has been invited to give keynote speeches at several international conferences. She has also supervised numerous Master's and PhD theses at MIT. She has served on the Speech Technical Committee for the IEEE Society for Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, and is a member of the Editorial Board for the Speech Communication Journal. She has also served as a member of the Permanent Council for the International Conference on Spoken Language Systems (ICSLP).

In the last few years, Dr. Seneff has been shifting her research interests back towards biology, reflecting her undergraduate degree. She is concentrating mainly on the relationship between nutrition and health. She is first author on three publications in 2011 in medical journals, relating excess carbohydrate consumption with metabolic syndrome, Alzheimer's disease, and autism. A blending of biology with dialogue systems is reflected in her recent efforts in developing spoken dialogue systems to allow users to search health-related grass-roots provided information from the Web.

Contact Information

Stephanie Seneff
Rm G-438 MIT Stata Center
32 Vassar Street
Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
seneff@csail.mit.edu

  • Interactive Database of Crowd-sourced Reviews of Statin Drugs and Antidepressants

  • Papers on Health
    1. Stephanie Seneff, Glyn Wainwright, and Luca Mascitelli, "Nutrition and Alzheimer's Disease: The Detrimental Role of a High Carbohydrate Diet," European Journal of Internal Medicine 22 (2011) 134-140; doi:10.1016/j.ejim.2010.12.017
    2. Stephanie Seneff, Glyn Wainwright, and Luca Mascitelli, "Is the Metabolic Syndrome Caused by a High Fructose, and Relatively Low Fat, Low Cholesterol Diet?" Archives of Medical Science, 2011; 7, 1: 8-20; doi:10.5114/aoms.2011.20598
    3. Stephanie Seneff, Robert Davidson, and Luca Mascitelli, "Might cholesterol sulfate deficiency contribute to the development of autistic spectrum disorder?" Medical Hypotheses, in Press, 2011.
  • Essays on Health
    1. Low Fat Diet and Sunscreen: A Recipe for Disaster
    2. Why You should Think Twice before Starting Statin Therapy
    3. Statins, Pregnancy, Sepsis, Cancer, Heart Failure: A Critical Analysis.
    4. APOE-4: The Clue to Why Low Fat Diet and Statins may Cause Alzheimer's.
    5. Statins and Myoglobin: How Muscle Pain and Weakness Progress to Heart, Lung and Kidney Failure
    6. The Obesity Epidemic: is the Metabolic Syndrome a Nutritional Deficiency Disease? View this page in Romanian courtesy of azoft
    7. Is ADHD Caused by Insufficient Dietary Fat?
    8. Could Sulfur Deficiency be a Contributing Factor in Obesity, Heart Disease, Alzheimer's and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?
    9. How Statins Really Work Explains Why They Don't Really Work.
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  • Powerpoint Presentations at the London Chapter's Weston Price Foundation Wise Traditions Conference in March, 2012.
    1. Let The Sun Shine In!

    2. The Silver Lining in Chronic Disease

    3. Autism, Alzheimer's and Depression: A Shared Underlying Pathology and Treatment

    4. Glossary of Terms
  • Powerpoint Presentations at Weston Price Foundation's 2011 Wise Traditions Conference in Dallas, Texas.
    1. Cholesterol, Sulfur, Lactate, and Sunlight: a New Paradigm for Health

    2. Autism, Vaccines, and Cholesterol Sulfate

    3. How Statins Really Work Explains Why They Don't Really Work
  • Video and Audio Clips
    1. Click here to try out our speech-based games for language learning (Language Games)
    2. Video Clip illustrating ability for student to create flash cards and use them in a simple speech-enabled interactive game on the Web (Video Clip )
    3. Video Clip illustrating simple speech-enabled card game, Rainbow Rummy, where students use vocabulary of named objects and colors communicatively. (Video Clip )
    4. Video Clip illustrating social game where two people compete against each other in Rainbow Rummy card game. (Video Clip )
    5. Video clip illustrating spoken interaction with language learning weather system (Video Clip )
    6. Audio clip of student's original speech "shang4 hai3 ne5" (Waveform file )
    7. Audio clip of student's speech with tones repaired through phase vocoder transformations (Waveform file )
  • Selected Other Papers
    1. Jingjing Liu and Stephanie Seneff, A Dialogue System for Accessing Drug Reviews, ASRU, Hawaii, December, 2011.
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    2. Jingjing Liu, Alice Li and Stephanie Seneff, Automatic Drug Side Effect Discovery from Online Patient-Submitted Reviews: Focus on Statin Drugs, IMMM, Barcelona, Spain, October, 2011.
      (Acrobat (PDF) file )
    3. Speech-enabled Card Games for Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition in a Foreign Language, Speech Communication, In Press.
      (Online Version )
    4. The Use of Subword Linguistic Modeling for Multiple Tasks in Speech Recognition, Speech Communication, Vol. 42, No. 3-4, pp. 373--390, 2004.
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    5. The Use of Linguistic Hierarchies in Speech Understanding, Keynote Address, ICSLP '98.
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    6. ANGIE: A New Framework for Speech Analysis Based on Morpho-Phonological Modelling, ICSLP '96
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    7. Response Planning and Generation in the Mercury Flight Reservation System. Computer Speech and Language, Vol. 16, 2002.
      (Acrobat (PDF) file )
    8. Automatic Acquisition of Names Using Speak and Spell Mode in Spoken Dialogue Systems. HLT 2003.
      (Acrobat (PDF) file )
    9. Galaxy-II: A Reference Architecture for Conversational System Development. ICSLP '98.
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    10. Integration of Hierarchical Linguistic, Prosodic, and Phonological Constraints in the Jupiter Domain. ICSLP '98.
      (Acrobat (PDF) file )
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