--- title: "Noah Coccaro — author profile and papers · Speech act theory" description: "Noah Coccaro, Google: 2 papers on Elamur Research (1998–2000), h-index 13 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/noah-coccaro/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/noah-coccaro/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Noah Coccaro # Noah Coccaro Noah Coccaro has 2 papers in our library, in 1998–2000, 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/), [Speech & spoken language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/); often with [Andreas Stolcke](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andreas-stolcke/), [Dan Jurafsky](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-jurafsky/), [Elizabeth Shriberg](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elizabeth-shriberg/). 2 papers in our library · 1998–2000 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5052725386) · [**h-index 13**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5052725386) · [27 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5052725386) · [2,109 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5052725386&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/noah-coccaro/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 473 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/noah-coccaro/cited-by/) · [4 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #1599](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/16/#star-1599) 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=Noah+Coccaro) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Noah+Coccaro) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Noah+Coccaro) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Noah+Coccaro) ## Affiliations [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2015–2018 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 1993–2002 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) · [🎓**University of Colorado Boulder** Boulder · United States 1998–2002 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-colorado-boulder/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Dialogue systems · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Speech act theory · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/) · [English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Speech & spoken language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) ## Works by year ### 2000s [**2000** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/noah-coccaro/year/2000/) ### 1990s [**1998** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/noah-coccaro/year/1998/) ## 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 · 1,453 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. **[Can Prosody Aid the Automatic Classification of Dialog Acts in Conversational Speech?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shriberg-2000-prosody-aid-automatic-classification-dialog/)** *(1998 · 356 citations)* The paper asks whether prosody, meaning the timing, pitch and energy of speech independent of the words, can help a machine decide which dialog act (DA) an utterance performs: a statement, a question, a backchannel, and so on. ## All works 6 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. [**Dialogue Act Modeling for Automatic Tagging and Recognition of Conversational Speech**Andreas Stolcke, Klaus Ries, Noah Coccaro, et al.*English · 1,453 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/stolcke-2000-dialogue-act-modeling-automatic-tagging/) 2. [**Can Prosody Aid the Automatic Classification of Dialog Acts in Conversational Speech? Language and Speech 41(3-4), 439-487, 1998**E. Shriberg, R. Bates, A. Stolcke, et al.*1998 · 356 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shriberg-2000-prosody-aid-automatic-classification-dialog/) 3. **[Towards better integration of semantic predictors in statistical language modeling ↗](https://doi.org/10.21437/icslp.1998-642) International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP) · no summary yet**Noah Coccaro, Daniel S. Jurafsky*1998 · 91 citations* 4. **[Dialog Act Modeling For Conversational Speech ↗](https://doi.org/10.5445/ir/1000166544) no summary yet**Stolcke, Andreas et al.*1998 · 36 citations* 5. **[Automatic detection of discourse structure for speech recognition and understanding ↗](https://doi.org/10.5445/ir/1000166547) IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU 1997) · no summary yet**Daniel Jurafsky et al.*1997 · 32 citations* 6. **[Dialog act modeling for automatic tagging and recognition of conversational speech ↗](https://openalex.org/W7100717353) no summary yet**Andreas Stolcke et al.*2000 · 10 citations* ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Andreas Stolcke](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andreas-stolcke/) ×2 - [Dan Jurafsky](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-jurafsky/) ×2 - [Elizabeth Shriberg](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elizabeth-shriberg/) ×2 - [Marie W. Meteer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marie-w-meteer/) ×2 - [Rebecca Bates](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rebecca-bates/) ×2 - [Klaus Ries](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/klaus-ries/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/): [Computational Linguistics 2000](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/2000/) - IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU 1997) - International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP) - Language and Speech 41(3-4), 439-487, 1998 ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 473 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [133 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/noah-coccaro/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026