--- title: "Andreas Stolcke — author profile and papers" description: "Andreas Stolcke, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: 2 papers on Elamur Research (1995–2000), h-index 65 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andreas-stolcke/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andreas-stolcke/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Andreas Stolcke # Andreas Stolcke Andreas Stolcke works on probabilistic models of language and speech. The papers here cover two related problems: how to compute probabilities efficiently over the structures of a grammar, and how to recognise what a speaker is doing with each utterance in spontaneous conversation. Both rely on statistical models, stochastic grammars in one case and hidden Markov models in the other, and both concern how sequential structure in language can be captured and put to use in recognition. The topics touched include [Speech act theory](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/) and [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/). The most cited work, [Dialogue Act Modeling for Automatic Tagging and Recognition of Conversational Speech](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/stolcke-2000-dialogue-act-modeling-automatic-tagging/) (2000), assigns each utterance in Switchboard telephone conversations a dialogue act such as statement, question, backchannel or agreement. It treats the acts as hidden states, draws evidence from the words, whether transcribed or recognised, and from prosody, and uses an n-gram over acts to model their order. This lets the paper measure how much knowing the sequence of acts improves tagging. The earlier paper, [An Efficient Probabilistic Context-Free Parsing Algorithm that Computes Prefix Probabilities](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/stolcke-1995-efficient-probabilistic-context-free-parsing/) (1995), deals with stochastic context-free grammars. It addresses the standard tasks for these grammars, including the probability of a string or of a prefix, the most likely parse, and the estimation of rule probabilities. Together the two papers move from grammar-level parsing toward conversation-level labelling. The current institution is the [University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/). Earlier bylines include [SRI International](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/sri-international/), the [International Computer Science Institute](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/international-computer-science-institute/) and the [University of California, Berkeley](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-berkeley/), followed by industrial research at [Microsoft](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) and [Amazon](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/amazon/). Co-authors on the papers here include [Dan Jurafsky](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-jurafsky/), [Elizabeth Shriberg](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elizabeth-shriberg/) and [Klaus Ries](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/klaus-ries/). Andreas Stolcke has 2 papers in our library, in 1995–2000, most of them on [Speech act theory](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/), [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/); often with [Dan Jurafsky](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-jurafsky/), [Elizabeth Shriberg](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elizabeth-shriberg/), [Klaus Ries](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/klaus-ries/). 2 papers in our library · 1995–2000 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5060979948) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9925-905X) · [**h-index 65**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5060979948) · [306 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5060979948) · [21,271 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5060979948&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andreas-stolcke/#papers) · [🔗 647 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andreas-stolcke/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #1497](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/15/#star-1497) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Andreas+Stolcke) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Andreas+Stolcke) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Andreas+Stolcke) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Andreas+Stolcke) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/) · [🔬**SRI International** Menlo Park · United States 1994–2011 · 120 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/sri-international/) · [🔬**International Computer Science Institute** Berkeley · United States 1989–2016 · 53 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/international-computer-science-institute/) · [🏢**Amazon** Seattle · United States 2019–2024 · 52 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/amazon/) · [🏢**Microsoft** Redmond · United States 2011–2019 · 34 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) · [🎓**University of California, Berkeley** Berkeley · United States 1989–2015 · 19 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-berkeley/) · [🎓**Georgia Institute of Technology** Atlanta · United States 2020–2025 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/georgia-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**University of Washington** Seattle · United States 2004–2009 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-washington/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 8 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Topics [Speech act theory (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/) · [Dialogue systems (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) ## Works by year ### 2000s [**2000** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/stolcke-2000-dialogue-act-modeling-automatic-tagging/) ### 1990s [**1995** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/stolcke-1995-efficient-probabilistic-context-free-parsing/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Dialogue Act Modeling for Automatic Tagging and Recognition of Conversational Speech](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/stolcke-2000-dialogue-act-modeling-automatic-tagging/)** *(2000 · 1,447 citations)* The paper labels each utterance of spontaneous telephone speech with one of 42 dialogue acts (statement, opinion, yes-no question, backchannel, agreement, answer and others), and asks how much the order of the acts helps. 2. **[An Efficient Probabilistic Context-Free Parsing Algorithm that Computes Prefix Probabilities](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/stolcke-1995-efficient-probabilistic-context-free-parsing/)** *(1995 · 70 citations)* The paper deals with stochastic context-free grammars (SCFG) and four classical problems associated with them: the probability of a string, the most probable parse, the probability of a prefix, and the training of rule probabilities. ## Also in our library 2 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Dan Jurafsky](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-jurafsky/) - [Elizabeth Shriberg](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elizabeth-shriberg/) - [Klaus Ries](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/klaus-ries/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 647 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [62 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andreas-stolcke/cited-by/).