As a conversation analyst and linguist, my research program explores how humans interact via language. In simple terms: I investigate how humans use language to get things done in their everyday lives. Increasingly, this happens by talking to machines, and I am fascinated by the process of making that communication as natural, intuitive, and seamless as possible.
My research has been published in the fields of computer science, linguistics, and conversation analysis (I don’t believe in silos!). I’m also a big believer in mentorship and giving back to my community, and that’s reflected in my webinars and guest talks.
Academic publications
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Moore, R., Sungeun, A. Marrese, O. H. Understanding is a Two-Way Street: User-Initiated Repair on Agent Responses and Hearing in Conversational Interfaces. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, CSCW. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3641026
Raymond, C.W., Albert, S., Grothues, N., Henry, J., Marrese, O., Pielke, M., & Tom, R.G. (in prep.). The Corpus of Language Discrimination Interaction (CLDI). Manuscript, University of Colorado, Boulder.
Marrese, O. H., Chase. W. Raymond, Barbara. Fox, Cecilia. Ford, and Megan Pielke.
(2021). The grammar of obviousness: Gesture in argument sequences. Frontiers in Communication 6, Special issue on “The Grammar-Body Interface in Social Interaction.” https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2021.663067
Marrese, O. H. (2021). The emergent construction of feminist identity in interaction. Pragmatics (31) 3. pp. 406-429. https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.19004.mar
Hirschey, O. (2018). Navigating conversations in childhood cancer treatment: Review of Uncertain Futures. Health Communication, 34(14), pp. 1845–1846. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2018.1536944
Hirschey, O. and Dominic Klyve. (2015). The Missing Meditatio: Leonhard Euler’s (1707-
1783) contribution to articulatory phonetics. Historiographia Linguistica, 42(1). pp. 63-83. https://doi.org/10.1075/hl.42.1.04hir
Podcasts, webinars, and more
13 Conversation Design Pivoters Share Their Stories and Advice for Breaking Into the Industry article in UX Magazine
PhD to Industry podcast episode on linguistics and conversation design.
PhD’s Marketable Skills panel discussion hosted by Academic Exit.
Working as a language data specialist, featured article on Career Linguist.
