Rebecca A. Bates Publications

Thesis Work

• Ph.D. Dissertation (Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, March 2004): Speaker dynamics as a source of pronunciation variability for continuous speech recognition models

• Master's Thesis (M.S. EE 1996): Reducing the effects of linear channel distortion on continuous speech recognition

Journal Papers, Conference Papers and Technical Reports

• R. Bates and A. Linse, "Preparing Future Engineering Faculty through Active Learning," Proc. of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, June 2003.
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• M. Ostendorf, I. Shaffran and R. Bates, "Prosody models for conversational speech recognition," Proc. of the 2nd Plenary Meeting and Symposium on Prosody and Speech Processing, pp. 147-154, Feb. 2003.



• R. Bates and M. Ostendorf, "Modeling Pronunciation Variation In Conversational Speech Using Prosody," ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Pronunciation Modeling and Lexicon Adaptation for Spoken Language, September 14-15, 2002.



• R. Bates and M. Ostendorf, "Modeling Pronunciation Variation in Conversational Speech using Syntax and Discourse," ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Prosody in Speech Recognition and Understanding, October 22-24, 2001.
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• A. Stolcke, K. Ries, N. Coccaro, E. Shriberg, R. Bates, D. Jurafsky, P. Taylor, R. Martin, C. Van Ess-Dykema, M. Meteer, "Dialog act modeling for automatic tagging and recognition of conversational speech," Computational Linguistics, vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 339-373, 2000.
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• R. Bates and M. Ostendorf, "Reducing the Effects of Linear Channel Distortion on Continuous Speech Recognition," IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 7, no. 5, 1999.

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• A. Stolcke, E. Shriberg, R. Bates, M. Ostendorf, D. Hakkani, M. Plauche, G. Tür and Y. Lu, "Automatic Detection of Sentence Boundaries and Disfluencies based on Recognized Words," Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, vol. 5, pp. 2247-2250, 1998.

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• E. Shriberg, R. Bates, A. Stolcke, P. Taylor, D. Jurafsky, K. Ries, N. Coccaro, R. Martin, M. Meteer, C. Van Ess-Dykema, "Can prosody aid the automatic classification of dialog acts in conversational speech?" Language and Speech, vol. 41, no. 3-4, pp. 439-487, 1998.
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• A. Stolcke, E. Shriberg, R. Bates, N. Coccaro, D. Jurafsky, R. Martin, M. Meteer, K. Ries, P. Taylor, C. Van Ess-Dykema, "Dialog act modeling for conversational speech," in: Applying Machine Learning to Discourse Processing. Papers from the 1998 AAAI Spring Symposium, pp. 98-105. AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA, 1998.
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• D. Jurafsky, R. Bates, N. Coccaro, R. Martin, M. Meteer, K. Ries, E. Shriberg, A. Stolcke, P. Taylor, and C. Van Ess-Dykema, "Automatic detection of discourse structure for speech recognition and understanding," Proc. 1997 IEEE Workshop on Speech Recognition and Understanding, pp. 88-95, 1997.
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• E. Shriberg, R. Bates, and A. Stolcke, "A prosody-only decision-tree model for disfluency detection," Proc. Eurospeech, vol. 5, pp. 2383-2386, Sept. 1997.
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• D. Jurafsky, R. Bates, N. Coccaro, R. Martin, M. Meteer, K. Ries, E. Shriberg, A. Stolcke, P. Taylor, and C. Van Ess-Dykema, "Switchboard Discourse Language Modeling Project Final Report." In 1997 Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition Summer Research Workshop Technical Reports, Research Note No. 30, Center for Speech and Language Processing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 1998.
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• E. Shriberg, R. Bates, and A. Stolcke, "Integrated acoustic and language modeling of speech disfluencies," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 100, no. 4, pt. 2, p. 2848, invited talk, October 1996.



• R. A. Bates and M. Ostendorf, "Maximum likelihood channel estimation for WSJ telephone speech recognition," Boston University Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering, Technical Report No.~ECS-96-002, March 28, 1996.
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• M. Ostendorf, F. Richardson, R. Iyer, A. Kannan, O. Ronen and R. Bates, "The 1994 BU NAB News Benchmark System," Proceedings of the ARPA Workshop on Spoken Language Technology,pp. 139-142, January 1995.

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