Presentations

Conference talks and posters

2023 Rose, R.L. “Ethical Considerations in the Use of Disfluencies in AI-generated Speech”. Poster presentation at 15th International Conference on Computer Supported Education, April 21-23, 2023, Prague, Czech Republic. [web]
2023 Rose, R. L. “Speech Repairs and Oral Fluency: What Can We Learn from L1 Speech Data?” Oral presentation at 57th RELC International Conference, March 13–15, 2023, Singapore. [Conf site]
2022 Sep. Rose, R. L., Orita, N., Sugawara, A., Wang, Q. “Evaluation Dataset of Multiple-Choice Cloze Items for Vocabulary Training and Testing”. Oral presentation at 2022 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp/ISWC ’22 Adjunct), September 11–15, 2022, Cambridge, UK (virtual).
2022 June. Rose, R., Wang, Q., Orita, N., Sugawara, A. “Issues and concerns in the automatic generation of vocabulary training and testing items”. Poster presentation at JALTCALL, special interest group of the Japan Association for Language Teaching, Japan (virtual).
2021 Nov. Watanabe, M., Shirahata, Y., Rose, R., Maekawa, K. “How do speakers pause and hesitate in English and Japanese? -A comparison using parallel corpora of English and Japanese presentation speeches-”. Oral presentation at Oriental COCOSDA, Singapore (virtual).
2021 Aug. Rose, R. “Variation in jitter, shimmer, and intensity of filled pauses and their contexts in native and nonnative speech”. Oral presentation at The 10th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS 2021), St. Denis France (virtual).
2020 Aug. Rose, R. "Creating vocabulary list quizzes automatically with Word Quiz Constructor". EUROCALL Gathering 2020.
2020 June Rose, R. "Automated generation of vocabulary quizzes en masse for large-scale testing". JALTCALL 2020 online conference. [info]
2020 May Rose, R. "Fluidity: Real-time Feedback on Acoustic Measures of Second Language Speech Fluency". On-line presentation at 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2020, Tokyo, Japan.
2019 Nov. Rose, R. "A Comparison of Disfluencies in Scripted and Non-Scripted Spontaneous Speech". Oral presentation at The 3rd International Symposium on Linguistic Patterns in Spontaneous Speech (LPSS), Taipei, Taiwan.
2019 Sep. Rose, R. "Fluidity: Developing second language fluency with real-time feedback during speech practice". Demo presentation at SLaTE: 8th ISCA Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education, Graz, Austria.
2019 Sep. Rose, R. "The structural signaling effect of silent and filled pauses". Oral presentation at The 9th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS), Budapest, Hungary.
2019 Aug. Rose, R. and Watanabe M. "A crosslinguistic corpus study of silent and filled pauses: When do speakers use filled pauses to fill pauses?". Poster presentation at The 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
2019 May. Rose, R. "Automated real-time feedback on second language speech fluency". Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO) Conference, Montreal, QC, Canada.
2019 Mar. Rose, R. "The structural signalling effect of filled pauses during reading". CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
2018 Nov. Rose, R. “Real-time feedback on speed fluency with Fluidity”. Presentation at Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT) International Conference, Shizuoka, Japan.
2018 Jul. Rose, R. “JESPR: An open-source library for web-based self-paced reading tasks” [JESPR: ウェブ上での自己ペース読文課題用のオープンソースライブラリ]. MAPLL × TCP × TL × TALK (MT3), Tokyo, Japan. [abstract]
2018 Mar. Rose, R. "Interactions between linguistic complexity and fluency in a corpus of first and second language speech". American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Chicago, IL, USA.
2017 Aug. Rose, R. "Silent and filled pauses and speech planning in first and second language production". Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS) Workshop, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden.
2017 April. Rose, R. "Solving the challenge of locating, preparing, displaying, and reusing academic reading texts for learners with ADAPS". ELT Research in Action (ELTRIA) Conference. Barcelona, Spain. [abstract, slides]
2017 February. Rose, R. "Differences in second language speech fluency ratings: Native versus nonnative listeners". Fluency & Disfluency Across Languages and Language Varieties. Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. [proceedings, slides]
2016 December. Rose, R. "Realtime detection of filled pauses and temporal variables for fluency development". Talk at 334th Phonetic Society of Japan Research Meeting at Jumonji University, Saitama, Japan.
2016, March. Rose, R. and Masuda, H. "Construction of a multimodal learner corpus of STEM student language production: A pilot study". 8th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC). Malaga, Spain. [slides]
2016, March. Rose, R. "Sensitivity of pausing strategies to utterance length: Evidence from a crosslinguistic speech corpus". 8th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC). Malaga, Spain. [slides]
2016, March. Rose, R. "Automatic Word Quiz Construction Using Regular and Simple English Wikipedia". International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED). Valencia, Spain. [slides]
2015. Rose, R. "Temporal Variables in First and Second Language Speech and Perception of Fluency". In The Scottish Consortium for ICPhS 2015 (Ed.), Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Glasgow, UK: the University of Glasgow. [slides]
2015. Rose, R. "Um and Uh as Differential Delay Markers: The Role of Contextual Factors". Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS), University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. [poster]
2015, March. Rose, R. "Fluidity: Real-time feedback for speaking fluency development". The English Language Education Society of Japan (JELES) Annual Meeting, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. [slides]
2014, August. Rose, R. "Practical and Theoretical Considerations in the Design of a System for Managing Peer Feedback on Oral Production". Japan Association of College English Teachers (JACET) International Convention, Hiroshima, Japan. [slides]
2014, August. Rose, R. "On the Relationship between First and Second Language Spontaneous Speech: The Role of Hesitation Phenomena" International Association for Applied Linguistics (AILA), Brisbane, Australia. [slides]
2014, August. Rose, R. (convener), Katada, F., Manalo, E., and Sheppard, C. "Addressing Challenges in a Large-Scale ELT Program: Learner Needs, Teaching Approaches, and Learner Assessment" (Symposium). International Association for Applied Linguistics (AILA), Brisbane, Australia. [slides]
2014, August. Rose, R. "WQC: A tool for quick automatic word quiz construction" International Association for Applied Linguistics (AILA), Brisbane, Australia. [slides]
2014, July. Rose, R. "Automated vocabulary quiz creation using online and offline corpora". Teach and Language Corpora (TaLC) conference. Lancaster University, UK. [poster]
2013, December. Rose, R. "Speech Hesitation Patterns in English by Native Speakers of Japanese". Presentation at Workshop on Linguistic Analyses of Foreign Language Learning: Automatization in Real-Time Comprehension and Production, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. [slides]
2013, August. Rose, R. "Crosslinguistic Corpus of Hesitation Phenomena: A corpus for investigating first and second language speech performance". Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2013), Lyon, France. [poster, paper]
2013, March. Rose, R. "The Developmental Trajectory of Second Language Learners' Use of Hesitation Phenomena". Presentation at Symposium on Contemporary Speech Habits and Pronunciation Patterns (SJUSK), Copenhagen, Denmark. [slides]
2012, November. Rose, R. 「第二言語運用における躊躇現象と流暢性」 [Hesitation Phenomena and Fluency in Second Language Development]. In Manalo, E., Sheppard, C., Rose, R., and Katada, F. (Contributors). 「高等教育における学生のコミュニケーション能力開発を巡る重要課題」 [Important issues concerning the communication skills development of students in higher education] symposium. 54th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association of Educational Psychology (JAEP), Okinawa, Japan. [slides (ja), paper (ja)]
2012, October. Rose, R. "An Evaluation of Hesitation Phenomena as Measures of Second Language Proficiency and Fluency". Presentation at Second Language Research Forum (SLRF), Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA. [slides]
2012, October. Rose, R. "Hesitation Phenomena, L2 Proficiency, and Fluency". Presentation at Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT) International Conference, Hamamatsu, Japan. [ slides]
2012, July. Rose, R. "On the lexical status of filled pauses: Seeing 'uh' and 'um' as words". Poster presentation at International Workshop on Language Production (IWOLP), New York, NY. [poster]
2012, March. Rose, R. "Hesitation Phenomena in English by Japanese Speakers: Preliminary Results from a Cross-linguistic Speech Corpus". Poster presentation at Georgetown University Round Table in Linguistics (GURT), Washington DC, USA. [poster]
2011, December. Rose, R. "Investigating the Relationship between Hesitation Phenomena and L2 Accentedness". Presentation at Accents 2011, Łódź, Poland. [abstract, slides]
2011, December. Rose, R. "Filled Pauses in Writing: What can they Teach us about Speech?" Poster presented at Production and Comprehension of Conversational Speech workshop, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. [abstract, poster]
2010, November. Rose, R. "Self-assessment in Pronunciation Development". Presentation at Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT) International Conference, Nagoya, Japan. [slides]
2010, July. Rose, R. "Accommodating Learning Styles: An EFL Pronunciation Course for Science and Engineering Students". Presentation at International Professional Communication Conference (IPCC), University of Twente, Netherlands. [slides]
2010, March. Rose, R. "Autonomy in External Learning: Developing Learners' Ability to Choose and Use Study Materials". Presentation at ICC Annual Conference, Hamburg, Germany. [abstract, slides]
2009, December. Rose, R. "Pronunciation Improvement for Science and Engineering Students: Promoting Autonomy in External Learning". Presentation at IEEE Professional Communication Society, Japan Chapter Annual Conference, Tokyo, Japan. [slides]
2009, July. "The Information Value of Some Hesitation Phenomena: Filled Pauses, Lengthenings, and Entropy Reduction". Poster presented at the Japan Society for Linguistic Sciences (JSLS) Annual Meeting, Saitama, Japan. [abstract, handout]
2009, March. "Feedbacker: A peer feedback management system for presentation instruction". Presentation at ICC Annual Conference, Florence, Italy. [abstract, slides]
2008, July. "Why 'What do you like sports?': Evidence for Shallow Structures". With Natsuki Amano. Poster presented at the Japan Society for Linguistic Sciences (JSLS) Annual Meeting, Shizuoka, Japan. [abstract, poster]
2008, February. "Filled Pauses in Language Teaching: Why and How". Talk presented at the 3rd Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics (EPICS III), Sevilla, Spain. [abstract, slides]
2006, November. "On-line Automatic Feedback in Second-language Pronunciation Development". Human Communication Science Network, Sydney, Australia. [slides]
2004, November. "Text Structure: Focus of Attention and Pronouns". Japan Association for Language Teaching International Conference, Nara, Japan. [abstract, slides]
2004, June. "The Relative Contribution of Syntactic and Semantic Prominence in Pronoun Reference Resolution". Midwest Computational Linguistics Conference, Bloomington, Indiana. [abstract, slides]
2004, March. "Syntactic and Semantic Prominence in Pronoun Resolution". CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, College Park, MD. [poster, handout]
2002, March. "Discourse Salience and Movement Constructions". CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, NY. [poster]
1995, November. "Student-Produced Videos" Japan Association for Language Teaching International Conference, Nagoya, Japan.

Invited Talks, Other Public Appearances

2022 Mar. Rose, R. “Filled pauses in L1 Japanese and L2 English: Observations from a crosslinguistic speech corpus”. Keynote presentation at LeCycl Workshop, Japan, France, Germany, and Australia (online). [web site]
2018 Mar. Rose, R. "Pauses in the perception and production of fluent speech: The case of nonnative listeners and speakers". Invited talk at Télécom ParisTech, Paris, France.
2018 Mar. Rose, R. "Towards providing real-time feedback on speech fluency for L2 learner development". Invited talk at Phonetics Colloquium, Institute of Phonetics, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany.
2018 Feb. Rose, R. "Crosslinguistic perception and production of filled and silent pauses and raising L2 learners' awareness of them". Invited talk at Spoken Language Systems Lab (L²F) at Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores (INESC-ID), Lisbon, Portugal.
2017 Dec, Rose, R. "Crosslinguistic study of pauses in speech: L1 influence and L2 perception". Invited talk at Computer Science Laboratory for Mechanics and Engineering Sciences (LIMSI-CNRS), Orsay, France.
2017 Nov. Rose, R. "Pauses in Second Language Production and Perception". Invited talk at University of Lisbon, Portugal.
2017 May. Rose, R. "Pausing patterns in the first and second language speech of native Japanese speakers". Invited talk at University of Lisbon, Portugal. [abstract, slides]
2016, March. Rose, R. "How can we determine, detect, and develop fluency in second language speech?". Invited talk at Spoken Language Systems Lab (L²F) at Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores (INESC-ID), Lisbon, Portugal. [slides]
2015, March. Rose, R. "Understanding second language fluency development: Comparisons with first language speech and with listener perceptions". Talk to Psycholinguistics Lab Group at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. [abstract, slides]
2014, December. Rose, R. "Some observations about Filled Pauses in English: A Multifaceted Approach". Workshop on Filled Pauses in Chinese, English, and Japanese, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. [slides]
2014, January. Rose, R. "Interpreting the temporal characteristics of second language speech". CELESE Faculty Development Symposium on Teaching, Learning, and Research. Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. [slides]
2013, March. Rose, R. "Investigating the Relationship between First Language Speech and Second Language Fluency Development". Invited speaker, Experimental Linguistics Talks – Utrecht (ELiTU), Utrecht University, the Netherlands. [link, slides]
2013, January. Rose, R. "A descriptive account of the developmental trajectory of L2 learners’ use of hesitation phenomena". Presentation at Windows to the Mind Research Symposium, sponsored by Center for English Language Education (CELESE), Waseda University Faculty of Science and Engineering, Tokyo, Japan. [slides]
2012, November. Rose, R. "How to Check Your English Pronunciation". Trial lesson (模擬授業) at Jissen Gakuen High School (実践学園高等学校), Tokyo, Japan. [slides]
2012, March. Rose, R. "Hesitation Phenomena and Second Language Development". Invited talk at George Mason University. [link, slides]
2010, November. "Are Filled Pauses Meaningless? Uh, no.". Invited speaker, University of Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Pref., Japan. [slides]
2009, December. Rose, R. "What is a filled pause?" Tricks Conference, Tokyo University.
2007, September. "Chinmoku wa Kin Narazu" (Silence is NOT Golden!). Invited speaker, Public Lecture Series, Maebashi Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Gunma, Japan. [slides (in Japanese)]
2007, July. "'This text is incoherent!': How people understand discourse". Invited speaker, Gunma University, Gunma, Japan. [abstract, slides]
2005, October. "Radio Seminar". Together with Teruhiko Fukaya and Mark Freiermuth. Radio Takasaki, Gunma, Japan. [mp3 audio: part 1 (7MB), part 2 (7MB)]
2003, December. "Discourse Coherence: How do speakers show and hearers decide what the center of attention is?" University of Aizu; Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan. [abstract, slides]
2001, March. "Anarez: A C++ Implementation of an Anaphora Resolution Algorithm". Introduction to Computational Linguistics course at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
1998, May. "Filled Pauses in the, uh, ELT Classroom". Hiroshima Chapter of Japan Association for Language Teaching, Hiroshima, Japan.
1994, July. "Student-Produced Videos". Hiroshima Chapter of Japan Association for Language Teaching, Hiroshima, Japan.
1992, October. "Getting Students to Talk when the Teacher's not Around". Hiroshima Chapter of Japan Association for Language Teaching, Hiroshima, Japan.