Nigel G. Ward

50 papers A 17B 2C 1Misc 2Journal 18Unranked 10
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 J jnl
Phonetic reduction is associated with positive assessment and other pragmatic functions.
Speech Commun.
Nigel G. Ward, Raul O. Gomez, Carlos A. Ortega, Georgina Bugarini
2025 Misc conf
Towards Precision Characterization of Communication Disorders using Models of Perceived Pragmatic Similarity.
ICASSP
Nigel G. Ward, Andres Segura, Georgina Bugarini, Heike Lehnert-LeHouillier, Dancheng Liu, Jinjun Xiong, Olac Fuentes
2025 Misc conf
Which Prosodic Features Matter Most for Pragmatics?
ICASSP
Nigel G. Ward, Divette Marco, Olac Fuentes
2024 — conf
A Collection of Pragmatic-Similarity Judgments over Spoken Dialog Utterances.
LREC/COLING
Nigel G. Ward, Divette Marco
2024 J jnl
A Collection of Pragmatic-Similarity Judgments over Spoken Dialog Utterances.
CoRR
Nigel G. Ward, Divette Marco
2024 A conf
Pragmatically similar utterance finder demonstration.
INTERSPEECH
Nigel G. Ward, Andres Segura
2024 J jnl
Topics in the Study of the Pragmatic Functions of Phonetic Reduction in Dialog.
CoRR
Nigel G. Ward, Carlos A. Ortega
2024 J jnl
Towards Precision Characterization of Communication Disorders using Models of Perceived Pragmatic Similarity.
CoRR
Nigel G. Ward, Andres Segura, Georgina Bugarini, Heike Lehnert-LeHouillier, Dancheng Liu, Jinjun Xiong, Olac Fuentes
2024 A conf
Towards a General-Purpose Model of Perceived Pragmatic Similarity.
INTERSPEECH
Nigel G. Ward, Andres Segura, Alejandro Ceballos, Divette Marco
2024 J jnl
Which Prosodic Features Matter Most for Pragmatics?
CoRR
Nigel G. Ward, Divette Marco, Olac Fuentes
2023 J jnl
A dimensional model of interaction style variation in spoken dialog.
Speech Commun.
Nigel G. Ward, Jonathan E. Avila
2023 A conf
Towards Cross-Language Prosody Transfer for Dialog.
INTERSPEECH
Jonathan E. Avila, Nigel G. Ward
2023 J jnl
Towards cross-language prosody transfer for dialog.
CoRR
Jonathan E. Avila, Nigel G. Ward
2022 A conf
Comparison of Models for Detecting Off-Putting Speaking Styles.
INTERSPEECH
Diego Aguirre, Nigel G. Ward, Jonathan E. Avila, Heike Lehnert-LeHouillier
2022 J jnl
Dialogs Re-enacted Across Languages.
CoRR
Nigel G. Ward, Jonathan E. Avila, Emilia Rivas
2022 — conf
On the Utility of Self-Supervised Models for Prosody-Related Tasks.
SLT
Guan-Ting Lin, Chi-Luen Feng, Wei-Ping Huang, Yuan Tseng, Tzu-Han Lin, Chen-An Li, Hung-yi Lee, Nigel G. Ward
2022 J jnl
On the Utility of Self-supervised Models for Prosody-related Tasks.
CoRR
Guan-Ting Lin, Chi-Luen Feng, Wei-Ping Huang, Yuan Tseng, Tzu-Han Lin, Chen-An Li, Hung-yi Lee, Nigel G. Ward
2022 J jnl
Spoken language interaction with robots: Recommendations for future research.
Comput. Speech Lang.
Matthew Marge, Carol Y. Espy-Wilson, Nigel G. Ward, Abeer Alwan, Yoav Artzi, Mohit Bansal, Gilmer L. Blankenship, Joyce Chai, Hal Daumé III, Debadeepta Dey, Mary P. Harper, Thomas Howard, Casey Kennington, Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová, Dinesh Manocha, Cynthia Matuszek, Ross Mead, Raymond J. Mooney, Roger K. Moore, Mari Ostendorf, Heather Pon-Barry, Alexander I. Rudnicky, Matthias Scheutz, Robert St. Amant, Tong Sun, Stefanie Tellex, David R. Traum, Zhou Yu
2021 B conf
Towards Continuous Estimation of Dissatisfaction in Spoken Dialog.
SIGDIAL
Nigel G. Ward, Jonathan E. Avila, Aaron M. Alarcon
2020 J jnl
Spoken Language Interaction with Robots: Research Issues and Recommendations, Report from the NSF Future Directions Workshop.
CoRR
Matthew Marge, Carol Y. Espy-Wilson, Nigel G. Ward
2019 A conf
Survey Talk: Prosody Research and Applications: The State of the Art.
INTERSPEECH
Nigel G. Ward
2018 J jnl
Inferring stance in news broadcasts from prosodic-feature configurations.
Comput. Speech Lang.
Nigel G. Ward, Jason C. Carlson, Olac Fuentes
2018 — conf
Turn-Taking Predictions across Languages and Genres Using an LSTM Recurrent Neural Network.
SLT
Nigel G. Ward, Diego Aguirre, Gerardo Cervantes, Olac Fuentes
2017 — conf
Emotion recognition by combining prosody and sentiment analysis for expressing reactive emotion by humanoid robot.
APSIPA
Yuanchao Li, Carlos Toshinori Ishi, Nigel G. Ward, Koji Inoue, Shizuka Nakamura, Katsuya Takanashi, Tatsuya Kawahara
2017 A conf
Inferring Stance from Prosody.
INTERSPEECH
Nigel G. Ward, Jason C. Carlson, Olac Fuentes, Diego Castán, Elizabeth Shriberg, Andreas Tsiartas
2017 J jnl
Non-Native Differences in Prosodic-Construction Use.
Dialogue Discourse
Nigel G. Ward, Paola Gallardo
2016 J jnl
Challenges in Building Highly-Interactive Dialog Systems.
AI Mag.
Nigel G. Ward, David DeVault
2016 B conf
On the possibility of predicting gaze aversion to improve video-chat efficiency.
ETRA
Nigel G. Ward, Chelsey N. Jurado, Ricardo A. Garcia, Florencia A. Ramos
2016 A conf
Prediction and Generation of Backchannel Form for Attentive Listening Systems.
INTERSPEECH
Tatsuya Kawahara, Takashi Yamaguchi, Koji Inoue, Katsuya Takanashi, Nigel G. Ward
2015 J jnl
A prosody-based vector-space model of dialog activity for information retrieval.
Speech Commun.
Nigel G. Ward, Steven D. Werner, Fernando García, Emilio Sanchis
2015 — conf
Ten Challenges in Highly-Interactive Dialog System.
AAAI Spring Symposia
Nigel G. Ward, David DeVault
2013 — conf
Evaluating Prosody-Based Similarity Models for Information Retrieval.
MediaEval
Steven D. Werner, Nigel G. Ward
2013 — conf
The Similar Segments in Social Speech Task.
MediaEval
Nigel G. Ward, Steven D. Werner, David G. Novick, Elizabeth Shriberg, Catharine Oertel, Louis-Philippe Morency, Tatsuya Kawahara
2013 A conf
Using dialog-activity similarity for spoken information retrieval.
INTERSPEECH
Nigel G. Ward, Steven D. Werner
2012 — conf
A Bottom-Up Exploration of the Dimensions of Dialog State in Spoken Interaction.
SIGDIAL Conference
Nigel G. Ward, Alejandro Vega
2012 — conf
Directions for Research on Spoken Dialog Systems, Broadly Defined.
SDCTD@NAACL-HLT
Nigel G. Ward
2012 J jnl
Prosodic and temporal features for language modeling for dialog.
Speech Commun.
Nigel G. Ward, Alejandro Vega, Timo Baumann
2012 A conf
Towards Empirical Dialog-State Modeling and its Use in Language Modeling.
INTERSPEECH
Nigel G. Ward, Alejandro Vega
2011 J jnl
Achieving rapport with turn-by-turn, user-responsive emotional coloring.
Speech Commun.
Jaime C. Acosta, Nigel G. Ward
2010 A conf
Dialog prediction for a general model of turn-taking.
INTERSPEECH
Nigel G. Ward, Olac Fuentes, Alejandro Vega
2009 A conf
Estimating the potential of signal and interlocutor-track information for language modeling.
INTERSPEECH
Nigel G. Ward, Benjamin H. Walker
2009 A conf
Responding to user emotional state by adding emotional coloring to utterances.
INTERSPEECH
Jaime C. Acosta, Nigel G. Ward
2009 C conf
Towards the use of inferred cognitive states in language modeling.
ASRU
Nigel G. Ward, Alejandro Vega
2009 A conf
Using responsive prosodic variation to acknowledge the user's current state.
INTERSPEECH
Nigel G. Ward, Rafael Escalante-Ruiz
2008 A conf
Modeling the effects on time-into-utterance on word probabilities.
INTERSPEECH
Nigel G. Ward, Alejandro Vega
2007 — conf
A combined method for discovering short-term affect-based response rules for spoken tutorial dialog.
SLaTE
Tasha Hollingsed, Nigel G. Ward
2007 J jnl
The (un)predictability of computer science graduate school admissions.
Commun. ACM
Nigel G. Ward
2006 A conf
A case study in the identification of prosodic cues to turn-taking: back-channeling in Arabic.
INTERSPEECH
Nigel G. Ward, Yaffa Al Bayyari
2006 A conf
Prosodic feature generation for back-channel prediction.
INTERSPEECH
Thamar Solorio, Olac Fuentes, Nigel G. Ward, Yaffa Al Bayyari
2005 A conf
Root causes of lost time and user stress in a simple dialog system.
INTERSPEECH
Nigel G. Ward, Anais G. Rivera, Karen Ward, David G. Novick