Rebecca A. Bates Publications

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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 & D. Wilson, "Confronted by Students: Dealing with Anger, Frustration and More Pleasant Emotions in Office Hours and in Class," Proc. 2008 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, June 2008.
   
• C. Allendoerfer, R. Bates, K. High, L. Meadows, K. Masters, C. Stwalley & R. Adams, "Communities of Practice in Engineering Education: How Do We Investigate Diversity and Global Engineering?", Proc. 37th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Milwaukee, WI, October 10-13, 2007, pp. S1E-1-2.  Get PDF
   
• R. Bates, "Asking a Question: Diversity in Student Learning Styles," presented at ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education, Milwaukee, WI, October 10-13, 2007.
   
• C. Allendoerfer, S. Jones, J. Hernandez, R. Bates & R. Adams, "Diversity in Engineering Education Research: Insights from Three Study Designs," Proc. of the 2007 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, June 2007. Get PDF
   
• R. Bates, M. Ostendorf, R. Wright, "Symbolic Phonetic Features for Modeling of Pronunciation Variation," Speech Communication, Vol. 49, No. 2, pp. 83-97, February 2007.
   
• N. Drescher, R. Bates, "Hedged Opinion in Academic Settings", American Association of Applied Corpus Linguistics, 20-22 October, 2006.
   
• R. Bates, E. Willingham, C. Kuyper, R. Eklund, "An Overview of High-level ICSI Meeting Corpus Augmentations", American Association of Applied Corpus Linguistics, 20-22 October, 2006.
   
• R. Eklund, R. Bates, C. Kuyper, E. Willingham, E. Shriberg, The Annotation and Analysis of Importance in Meetings, ICSI Technical Report, TR-06-003, June 2006.  Get PDF
   
• A. Begel, S. Wolfman, R. Bates, "Kinesthetic Learning in the Classroom", SIGCSE 2006.
   
• S. Wolfman, R. Bates, "Kinesthetic Learning in the Classroom", Journal of Computing Science in Colleges, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 203-206, October 2005.
   
• R. Bates, P. Menning, E. Willingham, C. Kuyper, "Meeting Acts: A Labeling System for Group Interaction in Meetings," Proc. Eurospeech, September 2005.
  
  
• R. Bates, E. Willingham, C. Kuyper, P. Menning, Mapping Meetings Project: Group Interaction Labeling Guide, August 2005.
   
• R. Bates, "Constructing an Interdisciplinary Peer Mentoring Network for First Year Faculty," Proc. of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, June 2005. Get PDF
  
  
• R. Bates, "Using Guild-based Group Learning in Technical Courses," Proc. of the Global Conference on Engineering and Technology Education, March 2005.  Presented as a faculty poster at SIGCSE 2005.
  
  
• 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, Z. Shafran 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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