Nigel G. Ward

According to our database, Nigel G. Ward authored at least 42 papers between 2005 and 2024.

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2024

Towards Precision Characterization of Communication Disorders using Models of Perceived Pragmatic Similarity.

Nigel G. Ward, Andres Segura, Georgina Bugarini, Heike Lehnert-LeHouillier, Dancheng Liu, Jinjun Xiong, Olac Fuentes

CoRR, 2024

Which Prosodic Features Matter Most for Pragmatics?

Nigel G. Ward, Divette Marco, Olac Fuentes

CoRR, 2024

Topics in the Study of the Pragmatic Functions of Phonetic Reduction in Dialog.

Nigel G. Ward, Carlos A. Ortega

CoRR, 2024

A Collection of Pragmatic-Similarity Judgments over Spoken Dialog Utterances.

Nigel G. Ward, Divette Marco

Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2024

2023

A dimensional model of interaction style variation in spoken dialog.

Nigel G. Ward, Jonathan E. Avila

Speech Commun., April, 2023

Towards Cross-Language Prosody Transfer for Dialog.

Jonathan E. Avila, Nigel G. Ward

Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2023

2022

Spoken language interaction with robots: Recommendations for future research.

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

Comput. Speech Lang., 2022

Dialogs Re-enacted Across Languages.

Nigel G. Ward, Jonathan E. Avila, Emilia Rivas

CoRR, 2022

On the Utility of Self-Supervised Models for Prosody-Related Tasks.

Guan-Ting Lin, Chi-Luen Feng, Wei-Ping Huang, Yuan Tseng, Tzu-Han Lin, Chen-An Li, Hung-yi Lee, Nigel G. Ward

Proceedings of the IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2022

Comparison of Models for Detecting Off-Putting Speaking Styles.

Diego Aguirre, Nigel G. Ward, Jonathan E. Avila, Heike Lehnert-LeHouillier

Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2022

2021

Towards Continuous Estimation of Dissatisfaction in Spoken Dialog.

Nigel G. Ward, Jonathan E. Avila, Aaron M. Alarcon

Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2021

2020

Spoken Language Interaction with Robots: Research Issues and Recommendations, Report from the NSF Future Directions Workshop.

Matthew Marge, Carol Y. Espy-Wilson, Nigel G. Ward

CoRR, 2020

2019

Survey Talk: Prosody Research and Applications: The State of the Art.

Nigel G. Ward

Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2019

2018

Inferring stance in news broadcasts from prosodic-feature configurations.

Nigel G. Ward, Jason C. Carlson, Olac Fuentes

Comput. Speech Lang., 2018

Turn-Taking Predictions across Languages and Genres Using an LSTM Recurrent Neural Network.

Nigel G. Ward, Diego Aguirre, Gerardo Cervantes, Olac Fuentes

Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2018

2017

Non-Native Differences in Prosodic-Construction Use.

Nigel G. Ward, Paola Gallardo

Dialogue Discourse, 2017

Inferring Stance from Prosody.

Nigel G. Ward, Jason C. Carlson, Olac Fuentes, Diego Castán, Elizabeth Shriberg, Andreas Tsiartas

Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2017

Emotion recognition by combining prosody and sentiment analysis for expressing reactive emotion by humanoid robot.

Yuanchao Li, Carlos Toshinori Ishi, Nigel G. Ward, Koji Inoue, Shizuka Nakamura, Katsuya Takanashi, Tatsuya Kawahara

Proceedings of the 2017 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, 2017

2016

Challenges in Building Highly-Interactive Dialog Systems.

Nigel G. Ward, David DeVault

AI Mag., 2016

Prediction and Generation of Backchannel Form for Attentive Listening Systems.

Tatsuya Kawahara, Takashi Yamaguchi, Koji Inoue, Katsuya Takanashi, Nigel G. Ward

Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2016

On the possibility of predicting gaze aversion to improve video-chat efficiency.

Nigel G. Ward, Chelsey N. Jurado, Ricardo A. Garcia, Florencia A. Ramos

Proceedings of the Ninth Biennial ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications, 2016

2015

A prosody-based vector-space model of dialog activity for information retrieval.

Nigel G. Ward, Steven D. Werner, Fernando García, Emilio Sanchis

Speech Commun., 2015

Ten Challenges in Highly-Interactive Dialog System.

Nigel G. Ward, David DeVault

Proceedings of the 2015 AAAI Spring Symposia, 2015

2013

Evaluating Prosody-Based Similarity Models for Information Retrieval.

Steven D. Werner, Nigel G. Ward

Proceedings of the MediaEval 2013 Multimedia Benchmark Workshop, 2013

The Similar Segments in Social Speech Task.

Nigel G. Ward, Steven D. Werner, David G. Novick, Elizabeth Shriberg, Catharine Oertel, Louis-Philippe Morency, Tatsuya Kawahara

Proceedings of the MediaEval 2013 Multimedia Benchmark Workshop, 2013

Using dialog-activity similarity for spoken information retrieval.

Nigel G. Ward, Steven D. Werner

Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2013

2012

Prosodic and temporal features for language modeling for dialog.

Nigel G. Ward, Alejandro Vega, Timo Baumann

Speech Commun., 2012

A Bottom-Up Exploration of the Dimensions of Dialog State in Spoken Interaction.

Nigel G. Ward, Alejandro Vega

Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2012 Conference, 2012

Directions for Research on Spoken Dialog Systems, Broadly Defined.

Nigel G. Ward

Proceedings of the Workshop on Future directions and needs in the Spoken Dialog Community: Tools and Data, 2012

Towards Empirical Dialog-State Modeling and its Use in Language Modeling.

Nigel G. Ward, Alejandro Vega

Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2012

2011

Achieving rapport with turn-by-turn, user-responsive emotional coloring.

Jaime C. Acosta, Nigel G. Ward

Speech Commun., 2011

2010

Dialog prediction for a general model of turn-taking.

Nigel G. Ward, Olac Fuentes, Alejandro Vega

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2010

2009

Estimating the potential of signal and interlocutor-track information for language modeling.

Nigel G. Ward, Benjamin H. Walker

Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2009

Using responsive prosodic variation to acknowledge the user's current state.

Nigel G. Ward, Rafael Escalante-Ruiz

Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2009

Responding to user emotional state by adding emotional coloring to utterances.

Jaime C. Acosta, Nigel G. Ward

Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2009

Towards the use of inferred cognitive states in language modeling.

Nigel G. Ward, Alejandro Vega

Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition & Understanding, 2009

2008

Modeling the effects on time-into-utterance on word probabilities.

Nigel G. Ward, Alejandro Vega

Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2008

2007

The (un)predictability of computer science graduate school admissions.

Nigel G. Ward

Commun. ACM, 2007

A combined method for discovering short-term affect-based response rules for spoken tutorial dialog.

Tasha Hollingsed, Nigel G. Ward

Proceedings of the Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education, 2007

2006

A case study in the identification of prosodic cues to turn-taking: back-channeling in Arabic.

Nigel G. Ward, Yaffa Al Bayyari

Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2006

Prosodic feature generation for back-channel prediction.

Thamar Solorio, Olac Fuentes, Nigel G. Ward, Yaffa Al Bayyari

Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2006

2005

Root causes of lost time and user stress in a simple dialog system.

Nigel G. Ward, Anais G. Rivera, Karen Ward, David G. Novick

Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 2005