Education
PhD: University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, 2017 (Linguistics)
MA: Ewha Woman's University Seoul, 2011 (English Linguistics)
BA: Ewha Woman's University Seoul, 2008 (English Language and Literature)
Positions and Work Experience
2023 -2026 Research Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
2018 -2023 Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Publications
Peer Reviewed Publications
Wu J.; Liu J.; Wang T.; Cho S.; Lee Y.c. (09-01-2025. ) Comparisons of Mandarin on-focus expansion and post-focus compression between native speakers and L2.Speech Communication, , 173 , More Information
Mehta A.; Nikzad A.H.; Cong Y.; Cho S.; Pradhan S.; Tang S.X. (01-01-2025. ) Sentiment in speech is associated with symptom severity in psychosis.Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, , 30 (3 ) ,199-210 More Information
Cox C.; Fusaroli R.; Nielsen Y.A.; Cho S.; Rocca R.; Simonsen A.; Knox A.; Lyons M.; Liberman M.; Cieri C.; Schillinger S.; Lee A.L.; Hauptmann A.; Tena K.; Chatham C.; Miller J.S.; Pandey J.; Russell A.S.; Schultz R.T.; Parish-Morris J. (10-01-2025. ) Social Context Matters for Turn-Taking Dynamics: A Comparative Study of Autistic and Typically Devel.Cognitive Science, , 49 (10 ) , More Information
Park C.; Choi A.S.G.; Cho S.; Kim C. (01-01-2025. ) Reasoning-Based Approach with Chain-of-Thought for Alzheimer's Detection Using Speech and Large Lang.Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association Interspeech, , 2185-2189 More Information
Choi A.S.G.; Richardson A.; Partlan R.; Tang S.X.; Cho S. (01-01-2025. ) Comparative Evaluation of Acoustic Feature Extraction Tools for Clinical Speech Analysis.Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association Interspeech, , 524-528 More Information
Cho S.; Cong Y.; Mehta A.; Nikzad A.H.; Berretta S.A.; Behbehani L.M.; Liberman M.; Tang S.X. (03-01-2026. ) Unique signatures in verbal fluency task performance in schizophrenia and depression.Schizophrenia Research Cognition, , 43 , More Information
Cola M.; Schillinger S.; Lyons M.; Lee A.; Faulk C.; Covello M.; Howard N.; Franke H.; Mulqueen A.; Fulop L.; Knox A.; Cho S.; Liberman M.Y.; Pandey J.; Yates Flanagan A.; Donaher J.; Schultz R.T.; Parish-Morris J. (06-01-2026. ) Sex-specific metrics for success: Gaps in social word use are bigger for autistic girls than boys.Autism, , 30 (6 ) ,1608-1614 More Information
Cho S.; Nevler N.; Shellikeri S.; Ash S.; Liberman M.; Grossman M. (01-01-2020. ) Automatic Classification of Primary Progressive Aphasia Patients Using Lexical and Acoustic Features .Proceedings of the Lrec 2020 Workshop on Resources and Processing of Linguistic Para Linguistic and Extra Linguistic Data from People with Various Forms of Cognitive Psychiatric Developmental Impairments Rapid 3, , 60-65
Cho S.; Lee Y.c. (01-01-2016. ) The effect of the consonant-induced pitch on Seoul Korean intonation.Linguistic Research, , 33 (2 ) ,299-317 More Information
Lee Y.C.; Nambu S.; Cho S. (05-01-2018. ) Focus prosody of telephone numbers in Tokyo Japanese.Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, , 143 (5 ) ,EL340-EL346 More Information
Cho S. (12-01-2018. ) The production and perception of High-toned [il] by young speakers of Seoul Korean.Linguistic Research, , 35 (3 ) ,533-565 More Information
Lee Y.c.; Nambu S.; Cho S. (08-01-2019. ) Dataset of focus prosody in Japanese phone numbers.Data in Brief, , 25 , More Information
Cho S.; Liberman M.; Ryant N.; Cola M.; Schultz R.T.; Parish-Morris J. (01-01-2019. ) Automatic detection of autism spectrum disorder in children using acoustic and text features from br.Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association Interspeech, , 2019-September ,2513-2517 More Information
Cho S.; Liberman M.; Lee Y.C. (01-01-2019. ) Automatic detection of prosodic focus in American English.Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association Interspeech, , 2019-September ,3470-3474 More Information
Lee Y.C.; Kim D.; Cho S. (01-01-2019. ) The effect of prosodic focus varies by phrasal tones: The case of South Kyungsang Korean.Linguistics Vanguard, , 5 (1 ) ,255-309 More Information
Nevler N.; Ash S.; McMillan C.; Elman L.; McCluskey L.; Irwin D.J.; Cho S.; Liberman M.; Grossman M. (09-22-2020. ) Automated analysis of natural speech in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis spectrum disorders.Neurology, , 95 (12 ) ,E1629-E1639 More Information
Lee Y.C.; Cho S. (12-01-2020. ) Focus prosody varies by phrase-initial tones in seoul korean: Production, perception, and automatic .Languages, , 5 (4 ) ,1-19 More Information
Cho S.; Nevler N.; Ash S.; Shellikeri S.; Irwin D.J.; Massimo L.; Rascovsky K.; Olm C.; Grossman M.; Liberman M. (04-01-2021. ) Automated analysis of lexical features in frontotemporal degeneration.Cortex, , 137 ,215-231 More Information
Cho S.; Nevler N.; Shellikeri S.; Parjane N.; Irwin D.J.; Ryant N.; Ash S.; Cieri C.; Liberman M.; Grossman M. (02-01-2021. ) Lexical and acoustic characteristics of young and older healthy adults.Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, , 64 (2 ) ,302-314 More Information
Tang S.X.; Kriz R.; Cho S.; Park S.J.; Harowitz J.; Gur R.E.; Bhati M.T.; Wolf D.H.; Sedoc J.; Liberman M.Y. (12-01-2021. ) Natural language processing methods are sensitive to sub-clinical linguistic differences in schizoph.Npj Schizophrenia, , 7 (1 ) , More Information
Parjane N.; Cho S.; Ash S.; Cousins K.A.Q.; Shellikeri S.; Liberman M.; Shaw L.M.; Irwin D.J.; Grossman M.; Nevler N. (01-01-2021. ) Digital Speech Analysis in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy and Corticobasal Syndromes.Journal of Alzheimer S Disease, , 82 (1 ) ,33-45 More Information
Cho S.; Nevler N.; Parjane N.; Cieri C.; Liberman M.; Grossman M.; Cousins K.A.Q. (07-29-2021. ) Automated Analysis of Digitized Letter Fluency Data.Frontiers in Psychology, , 12 , More Information
Krell R.; Tang W.; Hänsel K.; Sobolev M.; Cho S.; Berretta S.; Tang S.X. (01-01-2022. ) Lexical and Acoustic Correlates of Clinical Speech Disturbance in Schizophrenia.Studies in Computational Intelligence, , 1013 ,27-35 More Information
Nikzad A.H.; Cong Y.; Berretta S.; Hänsel K.; Cho S.; Pradhan S.; Behbehani L.; DeSouza D.D.; Liberman M.Y.; Tang S.X. (12-01-2022. ) Who does what to whom? graph representations of action-predication in speech relate to psychopatholo.Schizophrenia, , 8 (1 ) , More Information
Tang S.X.; Cong Y.; Nikzad A.H.; Mehta A.; Cho S.; Hänsel K.; Berretta S.; Dhar A.A.; Kane J.M.; Malhotra A.K. (09-01-2023. ) Clinical and computational speech measures are associated with social cognition in schizophrenia spe.Schizophrenia Research, , 259 ,28-37 More Information
Shellikeri S.; Cho S.; Cousins K.A.Q.; Liberman M.; Howard E.; Balganorth Y.; Weintraub D.; Spindler M.; Deik A.; Lee E.B.; Trojanowski J.Q.; Irwin D.; Wolk D.; Grossman M.; Nevler N. (09-01-2022. ) Natural speech markers of Alzheimer's disease co-pathology in Lewy body dementias.Parkinsonism and Related Disorders, , 102 ,94-100 More Information
Cho S.; Cousins K.A.Q.; Shellikeri S.; Ash S.; Irwin D.J.; Liberman M.Y.; Grossman M.; Nevler N. (07-26-2022. ) Lexical and Acoustic Speech Features Relating to Alzheimer Disease Pathology.Neurology, , 99 (4 ) ,E313-E322 More Information
Cho S.; Fusaroli R.; Pelella M.R.; Tena K.; Knox A.; Hauptmann A.; Covello M.; Russell A.; Miller J.; Hulick A.; Uzokwe J.; Walker K.; Fiumara J.; Pandey J.; Chatham C.; Cieri C.; Schultz R.T.; Liberman M.; Parish-Morris J. (01-01-2022. ) Identifying stable speech-language markers of autism in children: Preliminary evidence from a longit .Clpsych 2022 8th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology Proceedings, , 40-46
Cieri C.; Liberman M.; Cho S.; Strassel S.; Fiumara J.; Wright J. (01-01-2022. ) Reflections on 30 Years of Language Resource Development and Sharing .2022 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference Lrec 2022, , 543-550
Tang S.X.; Hänsel K.; Cong Y.; Nikzad A.H.; Mehta A.; Cho S.; Berretta S.; Behbehani L.; Pradhan S.; John M.; Liberman M.Y. (03-01-2023. ) Latent Factors of Language Disturbance and Relationships to Quantitative Speech Features.Schizophrenia Bulletin, , 49 ,S93-S103 More Information
Cho S.; Cola M.; Knox A.; Pelella M.R.; Russell A.; Hauptmann A.; Covello M.; Cieri C.; Liberman M.; Schultz R.T.; Parish-Morris J. (12-01-2023. ) Sex differences in the temporal dynamics of autistic children’s natural conversations.Molecular Autism, , 14 (1 ) , More Information
Cho S.; Agmon G.; Shellikeri S.; Cousins K.A.Q.; Ash S.; Irwin D.J.; Spindler M.; Deik A.F.; Elman L.B.; Quinn C.; Liberman M.; Grossman M.; Nevler N. (01-01-2022. ) Prosodic characteristics of prepausal words produced by patients with neurodegenerative disease.Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody, , 2022-May ,120-124 More Information
Yang Y.; Cho S.; Covello M.; Knox A.; Bastani O.; Weimer J.; Dobriban E.; Schultz R.; Lee I.; Parish-Morris J. (01-01-2023. ) Automatically Predicting Perceived Conversation Quality in a Pediatric Sample Enriched for Autism.Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association Interspeech, , 2023-August ,4603-4607 More Information
Gonzalez-Recober C.; Nevler N.; Shellikeri S.; Cousins K.A.Q.; Rhodes E.; Liberman M.; Grossman M.; Irwin D.; Cho S. (01-01-2023. ) Comparison of category and letter fluency tasks through automated analysis.Frontiers in Psychology, , 14 , More Information
Shellikeri S.; Cho S.; Ash S.; Gonzalez-Recober C.; Mcmillan C.T.; Elman L.; Quinn C.; Amado D.A.; Baer M.; Irwin D.J.; Massimo L.; Olm C.A.; Liberman M.Y.; Grossman M.; Nevler N. (01-01-2024. ) Digital markers of motor speech impairments in spontaneous speech of patients with ALS-FTD spectrum .Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Degeneration, , 25 (3-4 ) ,317-325 More Information
Nevler N.; Cho S.; Cousins K.A.Q.; Ash S.; Olm C.A.; Shellikeri S.; Agmon G.; Gonzalez-Recober C.; Xie S.X.; Barker M.S.; Manoochehri M.; McMillan C.T.; Irwin D.J.; Massimo L.; Dratch L.; Cheran G.; Huey E.D.; Cosentino S.A.; Van Deerlin V.M.; Liberman M.Y.; Grossman M. (01-23-2024. ) Changes in Digital Speech Measures in Asymptomatic Carriers of Pathogenic Variants Associated with F.Neurology, , 102 (2 ) , More Information
Agmon G.; Pradhan S.; Ash S.; Nevler N.; Liberman M.; Grossman M.; Cho S. (02-01-2024. ) Automated Measures of Syntactic Complexity in Natural Speech Production: Older and Younger Adults as.Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, , 67 (2 ) ,545-561 More Information
Cho S.; Olm C.A.; Ash S.; Shellikeri S.; Agmon G.; Cousins K.A.Q.; Irwin D.J.; Grossman M.; Liberman M.; Nevler N. (05-01-2024. ) Automatic classification of AD pathology in FTD phenotypes using natural speech.Alzheimer S and Dementia, , 20 (5 ) ,3416-3428 More Information
Choi A.S.G.; Kim J.S.; Kim S.H.; Back M.S.; Cho S. (01-01-2024. ) Crosslinguistic Acoustic Feature-based Dementia Classification using Advanced Learning Architectures .5th Rapid Workshop Resources and Processing of Linguistic Para Linguistic and Extra Linguistic Data from People with Various Forms of Cognitive Psychiatric Developmental Impairments Rapid 2024 at Lrec Coling 2024 Workshop Proceedings, , 95-100
Kim J.S.; Choi A.S.G.; Cho S. (01-01-2024. ) KoFREN: Comprehensive Korean Word Frequency Norms Derived from Large Scale Free Speech Corpora .2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics Language Resources and Evaluation Lrec Coling 2024 Main Conference Proceedings, , 9926-9931
Soleimani L.; Ouyang Y.; Cho S.; Kia A.; Beeri M.S.; Lin H.M.; Ravona-Springer R.; Ramsingh N.; Liberman M.Y.; Grossman M.; Nevler N. (07-01-2024. ) Speech markers of depression dimensions across cognitive status.Alzheimer S and Dementia Diagnosis Assessment and Disease Monitoring, , 16 (3 ) , More Information
Yu X.; Cho S.; Lee Y.c. (10-01-2024. ) Yanbian Korean speakers tend to merge /e/ and /?/ when exposed to Seoul Korean.Speech Communication, , 164 , More Information
Agmon G.; Cho S.; Ash S.; Cousins K.A.Q.; Blennow K.; Zetterberg H.; Shaw L.M.; Pradhan S.; Kim Y.D.; Liberman M.Y.; Irwin D.J.; Nevler N. (01-01-2026. ) Automatic quantification of syntactic complexity in natural spontaneous speech of people with primar.Aphasiology, , 40 (3 ) ,561-582 More Information