Nigel G. Ward

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2005-2024
Publications (10 Years): 20

Top Topics

Information Retrieval

Top Venues

Publications

Nigel G. Ward, Divette Marco
A Collection of Pragmatic-Similarity Judgments over Spoken Dialog Utterances. CoRR (2024)
Nigel G. Ward, Divette Marco
A Collection of Pragmatic-Similarity Judgments over Spoken Dialog Utterances. LREC/COLING (2024)
Nigel G. Ward, Carlos A. Ortega
Topics in the Study of the Pragmatic Functions of Phonetic Reduction in Dialog. CoRR (2024)
Jonathan E. Avila, Nigel G. Ward
Towards Cross-Language Prosody Transfer for Dialog. INTERSPEECH (2023)
Nigel G. Ward, Jonathan E. Avila
A dimensional model of interaction style variation in spoken dialog. Speech Commun. 149 (2023)
Jonathan E. Avila, Nigel G. Ward
Towards cross-language prosody transfer for dialog. CoRR (2023)
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 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
Spoken language interaction with robots: Recommendations for future research. Comput. Speech Lang. 71 (2022)
Nigel G. Ward, Jonathan E. Avila, Emilia Rivas
Dialogs Re-enacted Across Languages. CoRR (2022)
Guan-Ting Lin, Chi-Luen Feng, Wei-Ping Huang, Yuan Tseng, Tzu-Han Lin, Chen-An Li, Hung-yi Lee, Nigel G. Ward
On the Utility of Self-supervised Models for Prosody-related Tasks. CoRR (2022)
Guan-Ting Lin, Chi-Luen Feng, Wei-Ping Huang, Yuan Tseng, Tzu-Han Lin, Chen-An Li, Hung-yi Lee, Nigel G. Ward
On the Utility of Self-Supervised Models for Prosody-Related Tasks. SLT (2022)
Matthew Marge, Carol Y. Espy-Wilson, Nigel G. Ward
Spoken Language Interaction with Robots: Research Issues and Recommendations, Report from the NSF Future Directions Workshop. CoRR (2020)
Nigel G. Ward
Survey Talk: Prosody Research and Applications: The State of the Art. INTERSPEECH (2019)
Nigel G. Ward, Jason C. Carlson, Olac Fuentes
Inferring stance in news broadcasts from prosodic-feature configurations. Comput. Speech Lang. 50 (2018)
Nigel G. Ward, Diego Aguirre, Gerardo Cervantes, Olac Fuentes
Turn-Taking Predictions across Languages and Genres Using an LSTM Recurrent Neural Network. SLT (2018)
Nigel G. Ward, Jason C. Carlson, Olac Fuentes, Diego Castán, Elizabeth Shriberg, Andreas Tsiartas
Inferring Stance from Prosody. INTERSPEECH (2017)
Nigel G. Ward, Paola Gallardo
Non-Native Differences in Prosodic-Construction Use. Dialogue Discourse 8 (1) (2017)
Yuanchao Li, Carlos Toshinori Ishi, Nigel G. Ward, Koji Inoue, Shizuka Nakamura, Katsuya Takanashi, Tatsuya Kawahara
Emotion recognition by combining prosody and sentiment analysis for expressing reactive emotion by humanoid robot. APSIPA (2017)
Nigel G. Ward, David DeVault
Challenges in Building Highly-Interactive Dialog Systems. AI Mag. 37 (4) (2016)
Nigel G. Ward, Chelsey N. Jurado, Ricardo A. Garcia, Florencia A. Ramos
On the possibility of predicting gaze aversion to improve video-chat efficiency. ETRA (2016)
Tatsuya Kawahara, Takashi Yamaguchi, Koji Inoue, Katsuya Takanashi, Nigel G. Ward
Prediction and Generation of Backchannel Form for Attentive Listening Systems. INTERSPEECH (2016)
Nigel G. Ward, David DeVault
Ten Challenges in Highly-Interactive Dialog System. AAAI Spring Symposia (2015)
Nigel G. Ward, Steven D. Werner, Fernando García, Emilio Sanchis
A prosody-based vector-space model of dialog activity for information retrieval. Speech Commun. 68 (2015)
Steven D. Werner, Nigel G. Ward
Evaluating Prosody-Based Similarity Models for Information Retrieval. MediaEval (2013)
Nigel G. Ward, Steven D. Werner, David G. Novick, Elizabeth Shriberg, Catharine Oertel, Louis-Philippe Morency, Tatsuya Kawahara
The Similar Segments in Social Speech Task. MediaEval (2013)
Nigel G. Ward, Steven D. Werner
Using dialog-activity similarity for spoken information retrieval. INTERSPEECH (2013)
Nigel G. Ward, Alejandro Vega
A Bottom-Up Exploration of the Dimensions of Dialog State in Spoken Interaction. SIGDIAL Conference (2012)
Nigel G. Ward
Directions for Research on Spoken Dialog Systems, Broadly Defined. SDCTD@NAACL-HLT (2012)
Nigel G. Ward, Alejandro Vega, Timo Baumann
Prosodic and temporal features for language modeling for dialog. Speech Commun. 54 (2) (2012)
Nigel G. Ward, Alejandro Vega
Towards Empirical Dialog-State Modeling and its Use in Language Modeling. INTERSPEECH (2012)
Jaime C. Acosta, Nigel G. Ward
Achieving rapport with turn-by-turn, user-responsive emotional coloring. Speech Commun. 53 (9-10) (2011)
Nigel G. Ward, Olac Fuentes, Alejandro Vega
Dialog prediction for a general model of turn-taking. INTERSPEECH (2010)
Nigel G. Ward, Alejandro Vega
Towards the use of inferred cognitive states in language modeling. ASRU (2009)
Nigel G. Ward, Benjamin H. Walker
Estimating the potential of signal and interlocutor-track information for language modeling. INTERSPEECH (2009)
Jaime C. Acosta, Nigel G. Ward
Responding to user emotional state by adding emotional coloring to utterances. INTERSPEECH (2009)
Nigel G. Ward, Rafael Escalante-Ruiz
Using responsive prosodic variation to acknowledge the user's current state. INTERSPEECH (2009)
Nigel G. Ward, Alejandro Vega
Modeling the effects on time-into-utterance on word probabilities. INTERSPEECH (2008)
Tasha Hollingsed, Nigel G. Ward
A combined method for discovering short-term affect-based response rules for spoken tutorial dialog. SLaTE (2007)
Nigel G. Ward
The (un)predictability of computer science graduate school admissions. Commun. ACM 50 (3) (2007)
Nigel G. Ward, Yaffa Al Bayyari
A case study in the identification of prosodic cues to turn-taking: back-channeling in Arabic. INTERSPEECH (2006)
Thamar Solorio, Olac Fuentes, Nigel G. Ward, Yaffa Al Bayyari
Prosodic feature generation for back-channel prediction. INTERSPEECH (2006)
Nigel G. Ward, Anais G. Rivera, Karen Ward, David G. Novick
Root causes of lost time and user stress in a simple dialog system. INTERSPEECH (2005)