--- title: "Rebecca Bates — author profile and papers · Speech act theory" description: "Rebecca Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato: 2 papers on Elamur Research (1998–2000), h-index 15 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rebecca-bates/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rebecca-bates/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Rebecca Bates # Rebecca Bates Rebecca Bates 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/A5005996798) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2553-6066) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130885876) · [**h-index 15**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5005996798) · [120 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5005996798) · [2,719 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5005996798&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rebecca-bates/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 394 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rebecca-bates/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #1739](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/18/#star-1739) 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=Rebecca+Bates) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Rebecca+Bates) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Rebecca+Bates) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Rebecca+Bates) ## Affiliations [🎓**Minnesota State University, Mankato** Mankato · United States 2005–2026 · 96 papers*current*](https://ror.org/04att9732) · [🎓**University of Washington** Seattle · United States 2000–2020 · 13 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-washington/) · [🎓**University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · United States 2020–2024 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/) · [🤝**American Society For Engineering Education** Washington D.C. · United States 2018–2020 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/03ac64295) · [🎓**Boston University** Boston · United States 1998–2020 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/boston-university/) · [🎓**Oklahoma State University** Stillwater · United States 2016–2020 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/oklahoma-state-university/) · [🎓**Seattle Pacific University** Seattle · United States 2012–2020 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/02gzbg991) · [🎓**Tuskegee University** Tuskegee · United States 2012–2020 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/0137n4m74) · [🎓**Clemson University** Clemson · United States 2020–2024 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/clemson-university/) · [🎓**University of Toronto** Toronto · Canada 2020–2021 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-toronto/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 21 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## 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/rebecca-bates/year/2000/) ### 1990s [**1998** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rebecca-bates/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. ## 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 - [Noah Coccaro](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/noah-coccaro/) ×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/) - Language and Speech 41(3-4), 439-487, 1998 ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 394 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [125 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rebecca-bates/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026