--- title: "Steven Coats · University of Oulu — author profile and papers" description: "Steven Coats, University of Oulu: 5 papers on Elamur Research (2022–2026), h-index 8 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/steven-coats/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/steven-coats/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Steven Coats # Steven Coats Steven Coats has 5 papers in our library, in 2022–2026, most of them on [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/), [Speech & spoken language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/). 5 papers in our library · 2022–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5033951837) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7295-3893) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q92066762) · [**h-index 8**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5033951837) · [57 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5033951837) · [193 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5033951837&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 5 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/steven-coats/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 4 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/steven-coats/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #11899](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/119/#star-11899) 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=Steven+Coats) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Steven+Coats) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Steven+Coats) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Steven+Coats) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Oulu** Oulu · Finland 2012–2026 · 36 papersEmployment since 2012 · Lecturer, English*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-oulu/) 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 7 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Experimental and Cognitive Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/experimental-and-cognitive-psychology/) · [Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) · [Signal Processing · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/signal-processing/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[English · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Speech & spoken language · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/steven-coats/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/steven-coats/year/2025/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/steven-coats/year/2024/) · [**2022** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/steven-coats/year/2022/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[The Corpus of Australian and New Zealand Spoken English: A new resource of naturalistic speech transcripts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/coats-2022-corpus-australian-new-zealand-spoken/)** *(2022 · 2 citations)* Studies of regional grammar in contemporary spoken English have had little suitable data. Existing Australian and New Zealand speech corpora tend to be small, concentrated in a few cities, or made up largely of older recordings, so rare syntactic features and regional patterns are hard to study. Coats addresses this… 2. **[Regional Distribution of the /el/-/æl/ Merger in Australian English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/coats-2025-regional-distribution-el-l-merger/)** *(2025 · 1 citation)* Victoria and Melbourne are known for merging /e/ and /æ/ before /l/, so that pairs like celery/salary sound the same. 3. **[CoANZSE Audio: Creation of an Online Corpus for Linguistic and Phonetic Analysis of Australian and New Zealand Englishes](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/coats-2024-coanzse-audio-creation-online-corpus/)** *(2024 · 1 citation)* Freely available, searchable English corpora that pair transcripts with recordings are scarce. Most audio collections for Australian and New Zealand English are small, offline, or sold under expensive licences. Coats addresses this gap by extending CoANZSE, a 195-million-word set of geolocated YouTube transcripts… 4. **[A Fine-tuned ASR Model for Historical American Dialect Recordings](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/coats-2026-fine-tuned-asr-model-historical/)** *(2026)* Off-the-shelf ASR systems such as Whisper perform poorly on conversational, dialectal and historical speech, so thousands of hours of carefully sampled American dialect fieldwork remain untranscribed. 5. **[MD_NLP: Reconstructing an Australian English Heritage Dialect Corpus from the Mitchell-Delbridge Recordings through LLM-Assisted Speaker Attribution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/coats-2026-md-nlp-reconstructing-australian-english/)** *(2026)* The Mitchell–Delbridge (MD) archive holds recordings of Australian secondary school pupils made in 1959/60. Its spontaneous narrative part had gone almost unused because there were no transcripts and the audio quality varies widely. Earlier studies drew only on the read sentences and word lists. ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/) ×2: [LREC 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2026/), [LREC 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2024/) - [Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/alta/): [ALTA 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/alta/2022/) - [Workshop on Dialects in NLP –- A Resource Perspective](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/dialres/): [Workshop on Dialects in NLP –- A Resource Perspective 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/dialres/2026/) - [Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/): [VarDial 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/2025/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 4 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [4 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/steven-coats/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026