Publications

by Amy Neustein, Ph.D.

Memorial

• Neustein, A. (2002). The Life and Legacy of Rabbi Dr. Abraham Neustein. Algemeiner Journal, July 19, 2002, p. B2.

• Neustein, A. (2002) (Rosh Hashana 5763). Remembering Rabbi Dr. Abraham Neustein. The Jewish Press, September 6, 2002, p. 58.

• Neustein, A. (2010). Congressman Stephen J. Solarz. The Jewish Press, December 24, 2010, p. 82 (a personal recollection of the late Congressman as Neustein’s neighbor).

• Neustein, A. (2012). My Interview with Marvin Hamlisch. The Jewish Press, August 14, 2012 (upon receiving news of his death, Neustein recalls her 1976 interview of the composer).

Sociology of Orthodoxy Today

• Neustein, A. (1994). West Bank Jews Have Shown Restraint; Look Into Your Heart. The New York Times, March 6, 1994, p. A31 (Neustein's letter to the editor).

• Neustein, A. (1994). Apocalypse in Limbo. New York Newsday, June 6, 1994, pp. 34, 36.

• Neustein, A. (1997). Crave New World. The Village Voice, August 5, 1997, p. 40 (Orthodox Jews who leave Orthodoxy).

• Neustein, A. (1997). Tisha B’Av Thoughts on Dov Hikind’s Predicament. The Jewish Press, August 22, 1997, p. 74.

• Neustein, A. and Lesher, M. (2007). Learning Our Lesson. The Jewish Press, December 7, 2007, pp. 5, 97 (letter to the editor urging "a different rabbinic approach to child sexual abuse").

• Neustein, A. and Lesher, M. (2008). A Single-Case Study of Rabbinic Sexual Abuse in the Orthodox Jewish Community. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 17(3-4), pp. 270-289.

• Neustein, A., Editor (2009). Tempest in the Temple: Jewish Communities & Child Sex Scandals (Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England, May 2009).

• Neustein, A. and Lesher, M. (2009). A Single-Case Study of Rabbinic Sexual Abuse in the Orthodox Jewish Community. Reprinted in R.A. McMackin, T.M. Keane, and P.M. Kline (Eds.), Understanding the Impact of Clergy Sexual Abuse (London/New York: Routledge), pp. 74-93.

• Neustein, A. (2010). Daughter Topples Orthodox Law Disinheriting Her. WOMENSENEWS, November 11, 2010 (featured story).

• Neustein, A. (2011). Training rabbis to identify abuse. The Jewish Star, August 25, 2011, p. 13 (lead guest editorial).

• Neustein, A. and Lesher, M. (2012). What Went Wrong at Ohel Children’s Home -- and What Can Be Done About Its Failure to Protect Jewish Children from Abuse? In Ersi Abacı Kalfoğlu and Rehat Faikoglu (Eds.), Sexual Abuse - Breaking the Silence (InTech [open access], March 2012), Chapter 12, pp. 183-200.

Family Court and Child Welfare System

• Neustein, A. (1990). When the Child Protection System Becomes Abusive and Threatening to Civil Liberties. Proceedings, Session 54 at the Eighth International Congress on Child Abuse and Neglect, Hamburg, Germany.

• Neustein, A., Burton J.R. and Quirk, S.A. (1993). Concerning the Plight of Children in Cases of Parental Abuse. Memorandum to United States Attorney General Janet Reno. Washington, DC: American Coalition for Abuse Awareness.

• Neustein, A. and Goetting, A. (1999). Judicial Responses to the Protective Parent's Complaint of Child Sexual Abuse. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 8(4):103-122.

• Neustein, A. and Lesher, M. (1999). Legislative Solutions to the Protective Parent Backlash. Family Violence and Sexual Assault Bulletin, 25(2-3): 19-26.

• Neustein, A. and Lesher, M. (2002). The Silence of the Jewish Media on Sexual Abuse in the Orthodox Jewish Community. In D.S. Claussen (Ed.), Sex, Religion, Media, Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., pp. 79-87.

• Neustein, A. and Lesher, M. (2002). Does the Jewish Community Sacrifice Victims of Sexual Abuse? Jewish Exponent, 211(22), May 30, 2002, p. 37.

• Neustein, A. (2004). Long Island Mom Fights for Justice in the Courts. South Suffolk NOW Newsletter, Bayshore, NY (March 2004).

• Neustein, A. and Lesher, M. (2004). Courts See Moms as Guilty till Proven Innocent. New York Daily News, June 21, 2004, p. 39.

• Neustein, A. (2005). From Childless Mother to Family Court Reformer. The Jewish Press, January 7, 2005, p. F1.

• Neustein, A. (2005). Let My Children Go. The Jewish Press, April 22, 2005, p. 8.

• Neustein, A. and Lesher, M. (2005). From Madness to Mutiny: Why Mothers Are Running from the Family Courts - And What Can Be Done about It (Gender, Crime and Law series, Northeastern University Press/University Press of New England, May 2005).

• Neustein, A. and Lesher, M. (2006). The Other Side of Child Neglect Charges: What Happens When There Are No Standard Criteria for Charging a Non-Offending Mother With Neglect? Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 15(4).

• Neustein, A. (2006). Debating a Theory in the Court of Public Opinion. The Boston Globe, February 11, 2006, pg. C7.

• Neustein, A. and Lesher, M. (2008). Governor David Paterson: A champion of women and children. Amsterdam News, March 20-26, 2008, pg. 13.

• Neustein, A. and Lesher, M. (2009). Evaluating PAS: A Critique of Elizabeth Ellis’s “A Stepwise Approach to Evaluating Children for PAS.” Journal of Child Custody, July 2009, 6:322-325.

Speech Technology and Sociology

For links, see the Linguistic Technology Systems publications page.

• Neustein, A. (1978). A Sociological Analysis of Hospice Care. Proceedings at the Eighth Annual Alpha Kappa Delta Sociological Research Symposium, 8: 271-274.

• Neustein, A. (1981). Courtroom Examination: An Analysis of its Formal Properties. Unpublished doctoral dissertation.

• Neustein, A. (1984). Background Material Related to Medicare Financing Issues. U.S. G.P.O. pp. 207, 213.

• Neustein, A. (1984). Linguistic Technology and Artificial Intelligence in Medical History-Taking. Update: Computers in Medicine, Vol. II (5): 56-60.

• Neustein, A. (1985). The Linguistic Screening Module: Effective Monitoring of the Pacemaker Patient. Update: Computers in Medicine, Vol. III (2): 11-14.

• Neustein, A. (1986). Dynamics of the Doctor-Patient Interview: What Happens When the Physician Interrupts the Patient? Osteopathic Medical News, Vol. III (4): 28-32.

• Neustein, A. (1986). Getting Straight Answers from Experts: A Comprehensive Guide to What they Appear to be Saying. Judges' Journal, 25(3): 31-33, 56.

• Neustein, A. (1986). (Reprint from Judges' Journal) The Los Angeles Daily Journal, (No. 86-19): 13-17.

• Neustein, A. (1986) Computer-Aided Instruction for Improving History-Taking Skills (Part I). Physicians and Computers, Vol. 4(6): 32-36.

• Neustein, A. (1986) Computer-Aided Instruction for Improving History-Taking Skills (Part II). Physicians and Computers, Vol. 4(7): 33-37.

• Neustein, A. (1986). New Ways to Interview Effectively. The Investigative Reporters and Editors Journal, Vol. 9(3): 8-9.

• Neustein, A. (1989) Medical History-Taking as an Interactive Event. In Doctor-Patient Interaction, Walburga von Raffler-Engel (ed) Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Co., pp. 61-77. Pragmatics and Beyond New Theories, Vol. IV.

• Neustein, A. (1999). How “Sequence Packages” Can Aid Language Understanding. Speech Technology Magazine, 4(4): 36-37.

• Neustein, A. (2000). Designing the Virtual Agent: Some Theoretical and Practical Considerations. Call Center News Service, 4(24): 1-4.

• Neustein, A. (2001). Using Sequence Package Analysis to Improve Natural Language Understanding. International Journal of Speech Technology, 4(1): 31-44.

• Neustein, A. (2001). Software Paves Way for Dialogue: Montreal Developer Designs Programs Allowing People to Speak Naturally to “Virtual Agent”. Montreal Gazette (June 7th) (p. B5).

• Neustein, A. (2001). Your Voice is My Command: Computers Controlled by the Human Voice. InfoWorld CTO Zone (June 27th).

• Neustein, A. (2001). Linguistics Expert Predicts Voice Technology will Play Pivotal Role in Spotting Terrorists. Speech Technology Magazine's NewsBlast, 1(41) (October 10th).

• Neustein, A. (2001). Linguistics Expert Predicts Voice Technology will Play Pivotal Role in Spotting Terrorists. BusinessWire (October 11th).

• Neustein, A. (2001). Spraaktechnologie is must voor inlichtingendiensten: Amerikaanse overheid investeerd al jarenlang in taaltechnologie. Automatisering Gids, (Den Haag) October 19th, p. 5.

• Neustein, A. (2001). Why Linguistics is Important for the Design of a Non Fictional “Hal”? White Paper, SpeechTEK 2001 (October 26th).

• Neustein, A. (2001). The Linguistics of a Non-Fictional Hal. EjTalk (October 29th).

• Neustein, A. (2001). Why Linguistics is Important for the Design of a Non Fictional “Hal”? Reprint of SpeechTEK White Paper in Wirelessreport.net (November/December).

• Neustein, A. (2002). Ring In The New Year: Telephones Gain New Voice Technology to Access the Web. NextInterface Newsletter (January 22nd).

• Neustein, A. (2002). Ring In The New Year: Telephones Gain A New Improved Technology for Accessing the Web. NextInterface.net (February/March).

• Neustein, A. (2002). Coast Effective: Towns Along River Enjoying a Resurgence. The Record (Bergen County, NJ) March 13th, pp. B1-B2.

• Neustein, A. (2002). Interacting with the Voice Web. NextInterface This Week (April 9th).

• Neustein, A. (2002). Untangling How Users Interact with the Voice Web: Building Intelligence into Voice-Based Apps. NextInterface.net (April).

• Neustein, A. (2002). Untangling V-Commerce: Building Intelligence into Voice-Based Apps. WirelessReport (April).

• Neustein, A. (2002). Sequence Package Analysis: A Data Mining Tool to Speed Up Wiretap Analysis. White Paper, AVIOS (Applied Voice Input/Output Society) conference (May 10th).

• Neustein, A. (2002). Sequence Package Analysis: A Data Mining Tool to Speed Up Wiretap Analysis. Reprint of AVIOS White Paper in SecureFrontiers.net (May).

• Neustein, A. (2002). “Smart” Call Centers: Building Natural Language Intelligence Into Voice-Based Apps. Speech Technology Magazine, 7(4): 38-40.

• Neustein, A. (2003). Sequence Package Analysis: A New Natural Language Intelligence Method for Speeding Up Wiretap Analysis. Second Annual Research Symposium of Human Language Technology Research Institute, University of Texas, Dallas (March 11th).

• Neustein, A. (2003). Filling the Global Communications Gap (panelist at Plenary session). Accelerating Global Understanding, Annual Meeting of the General Assembly of the LISA Forum USA, Washington, DC (December 9th).

• Neustein, A. (2003). Building Standards for Global Speech Applications (workshop panelist). Accelerating Global Understanding, Annual Meeting of the General Assembly of the LISA Forum USA, Washington, DC (December 10th).

• Neustein, A. (2004). Sequence Package Analysis: A New Global Standard for Processing Natural Language Input? LISA Newsletter, Vol. 13(1,2): 1-6.

• Neustein, A. (2004). Sequence Package Analysis: A New Global Standard for Processing Natural Language Input? Reprinted in Speech Technology Magazine's NewsBlast (February 25th).

• Neustein, A. (2004). Sequence Package Analysis: A New Natural Language Understanding Method for Performing Data Mining of Help-Line Calls and Doctor-Patient Interviews. In B. Sharp (Ed.), Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Cognitive Science, University of Portugal, pp. 64-74 (April 13th).

• Neustein, A. (2004). Mining for What's Missing: How to Find What is not in the Speech Application's Vocabulary. SpeechTEK 2004 (September 15th).

• Neustein, A. (2004). Using a New Method of Natural Language Intelligence for Performing Wiretap Analysis. Policy Sciences Center Annual Institute at Yale Law School (October 23rd).

• Neustein, A. (2005). A New Natural Language Method for Performing Efficient Mining of Government Tape-Recordings of the Conversations of Terror Suspects. IEEE (ITCC, IAS Track) (April 11th).

• Neustein, A. (2006). Using Sequence Package Analysis As a New Natural Language Understanding Method for Mining Government Recordings of Terror Suspects. In B. Sharp (Ed.), Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Cognitive Science, Paphos, Cyprus, pp. 101-108 (May 23rd).

• Neustein, A. (2007). SEQUENCE PACKAGE ANALYSIS: A New Natural Language Understanding Method for Intelligent Mining of Recordings of Doctor-Patient Interviews and Health-Related Blogs. IEEE, pp. 441-448 (ITNG 2007).

• Neustein, A. (2007). Sequence Package Analysis: A New Method for Intelligent Mining of Patient Dialog, Blogs and Help-Line Calls. Journal of Computers, Vol. 2(10) (December): (pp. 45-51).

• Neustein, A. (2008). Sequence Package Analysis: a new natural language understanding method for improving human response in critical systems. International Journal of Speech Technology, Vol. 9, Issues 3 & 4, pp. 109-120 (December 2008).

• Neustein, A. (2008). Note from the Editor. International Journal of Speech Technology, Vol. 9, Issues 3 & 4, pp. 51-52.

• Neustein, A. (2009). Editorial. International Journal of Speech Technology, Vol. 10, Issue 4, pp. 163-166 (April 2009).

• Neustein, A., Editor (2010). Advances in Speech Recognition: Mobile Environments, Call Centers and Clinics (Springer, November 2010).

• Neustein, A. (2010). Cloud Computing Promises Hi-Tech Talk in 2011. WOMENSENEWS, December 28, 2010 (lead story).

• Neustein, A. (2011). VUI Visions: Speech for Mobility. Speech Strategy News, January 2011, pp. 23-25.

• Neustein, A. (2011). Sequence Package Analysis and Soft Computing: Introducing a New Hybrid Method to Adjust to the Fluid and Dynamic Nature of Human Speech. Soft Computing Models in Industrial and Environmental Applications, 6th International Conference SOCO 2011: Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, Volume 87/2011, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-19644-7_1 (Springer, 2011), pp. 1-10 (first item in book).

• Neustein, A. (2012). Think Before You Talk: The Role of Cognitive Science in Natural Language Processing. 9th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science, NLPCS 2012, edited by Bernadette Sharp and Michael Zock, pp. 3-11.

• Neustein, A. and Markowitz, J. (2013). Mobile Speech and Advanced Natural Language Solutions (Springer, 2013).

• Neustein, A. (2013). Sequence Package Analysis: A New Natural Language Method for Mining User-Generated Content for Mobile Uses. Mobile Speech and Advanced Natural Language Solutions (see above), edited by Amy Neustein and Judith A. Markowitz (Springer, 2013), Chapter 5, pp. 75-101.

Political Activism

• Neustein, A. (2012). Sister to a ‘Worst Landlord’. City Limits (March 13, 2012). (For the biographical note posted with the column, click here.)

• Neustein, A. (2012). Law enforcement system is passively abetting the criminal acts of slumlords. Legislative Gazette (March 20, 2012). (Reprint of the previous column, listed as a “letter to the editor.”)

 

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