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h-index: 23
Works: 163
Citations: 2,454

Most-cited papers

Spoken Language Interaction with Robots: Research Issues and Recommendations, Report from the NSF Future Directions Workshop
M. Marge, C. Espy-Wilson, Nigel G. Ward, A. Alwan +24 more
2020Computer Speech and Language114 citations Open access
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Achieving rapport with turn-by-turn, user-responsive emotional coloring
J. Acosta, Nigel G. Ward
2011Speech Communication99 citations Open access
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Prosodic Patterns in English Conversation
Nigel G. Ward
201989 citations
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On the Utility of Self-Supervised Models for Prosody-Related Tasks
Guan-Ting Lin, Chiyu Feng, Wei-Ping Huang, Yuan Tseng +4 more
2022Spoken Language Technology Workshop71 citations Open access
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Prediction and Generation of Backchannel Form for Attentive Listening Systems
Tatsuya Kawahara, Takashi Yamaguchi, K. Inoue, K. Takanashi +1 more
2016Interspeech59 citations
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Dialog prediction for a general model of turn-taking
Nigel G. Ward, O. Fuentes, A. Vega
2010Interspeech43 citations
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Learning to show you're listening
Nigel G. Ward, Rafael Escalante, Yaffa Al Bayyari, Thamar Solorio
200732 citations
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Ten Challenges in Highly-Interactive Dialog System
Nigel G. Ward, David DeVault
2015AAAI Spring Symposia28 citations
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Prosodic and temporal features for language modeling for dialog
Nigel G. Ward, A. Vega, Timo Baumann
2012Speech Communication28 citations
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Turn-Taking Predictions across Languages and Genres Using an LSTM Recurrent Neural Network
Nigel G. Ward, Diego Aguirre, Gerardo Cervantes, O. Fuentes
2018Spoken Language Technology Workshop27 citations
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Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing: Tutorial Abstracts
Roy Bar-Haim, L. Ein-Dor, Matan Orbach, Elad Venezian +496 more
202126 citations Open access
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A Bottom-Up Exploration of the Dimensions of Dialog State in Spoken Interaction
Nigel G. Ward, A. Vega
2012SIGDIAL Conference26 citations
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Challenges in Building Highly-Interactive Dialog Systems
Nigel G. Ward, David DeVault
2017The AI Magazine25 citations Open access
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Non-Native Differences in Prosodic-Construction Use
Nigel G. Ward, Paola Gallardo
2017DND23 citations Open access
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A prosodic feature that invites back-channels in Egyptian Arabic
Nigel G. Ward, Yaffa Al Bayyari
200723 citations Open access
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Analysis and Prediction of Morphological Patterns of Backchannels for Attentive Listening Agents
Takashi Yamaguchi, K. Inoue, Koichiro Yoshino, K. Takanashi +2 more
201522 citations
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Automatic discovery of simply-composable prosodic elements
Nigel G. Ward
201422 citations
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A case study in the identification of prosodic cues to turn-taking: back-channeling in Arabic
Nigel G. Ward, Yaffa Al Bayyari
2006Interspeech22 citations
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A Framework for Model-based Evaluation of Spoken Dialog Systems
Sebastian Möller, Nigel G. Ward
2008SIGDIAL Workshop20 citations Open access
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Emotion recognition by combining prosody and sentiment analysis for expressing reactive emotion by humanoid robot
Yuanchao Li, C. Ishi, Nigel G. Ward, K. Inoue +3 more
2017Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference19 citations
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Inferring stance in news broadcasts from prosodic-feature configurations
Nigel G. Ward, Jason C. Carlson, O. Fuentes
2018Computer Speech and Language18 citations
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A prosody-based vector-space model of dialog activity for information retrieval
Nigel G. Ward, Steven D. Werner, Fernando García, E. Sanchís
2015Speech Communication16 citations Open access
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The Similar Segments in Social Speech Task
Nigel G. Ward, Steven D. Werner, D. Novick, Elizabeth Shriberg +3 more
2013MediaEval Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation16 citations
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Responding to user emotional state by adding emotional coloring to utterances
J. Acosta, Nigel G. Ward
2009Interspeech16 citations
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Action-coordinating prosody
Nigel G. Ward, Saiful Abu
201615 citations
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Prosodic patterns in dialog
Nigel G. Ward
2013Speech Synthesis Workshop13 citations
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Interactional and pragmatics-related prosodic patterns in mandarin dialog
Nigel G. Ward, Yuanchao Li, Tianyu Zhao, Tatsuya Kawahara
201612 citations
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A dimensional model of interaction style variation in spoken dialog
Nigel G. Ward, Jonathan Avila
2023Speech Communication11 citations
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Two Pragmatic Functions of Breathy Voice in American English Conversation
Nigel G. Ward, Ambika Kirkland, M. Wlodarczak, Éva Székely
2022Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody11 citations Open access
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Towards cross-language prosody transfer for dialog
Jonathan Avila, Nigel G. Ward
2023Interspeech10 citations Open access
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Using responsive prosodic variation to acknowledge the user's current state
Nigel G. Ward, Rafael Escalante-Ruiz
2009Interspeech10 citations
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Perceptions of an Arabic Turn-Taking Cue 1 Running head : PERCEPTIONS OF AN ARABIC TURN-TAKING CUE American and Arab perceptions of an Arabic turn-taking cue
Nigel G. Ward, Yaffa Al Bayyari
200810 citations
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A Corpus-Based Exploration of the Functions of Disaligned Pitch Peaks in American English Dialog
Nigel G. Ward
2018Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody9 citations
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A PROSODIC CONFIGURATION THAT CONVEYS POSITIVE ASSESSMENT IN AMERICAN ENGLISH
Nigel G. Ward, James A. Jodoin
20189 citations
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Using dialog-activity similarity for spoken information retrieval
Nigel G. Ward, Steven D. Werner
2013Interspeech9 citations
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Modeling the effects on time-into-utterance on word probabilities
Nigel G. Ward, A. Vega
2008Interspeech8 citations
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A combined method for discovering short-term affect-based response rules for spoken tutorial dialog
Tasha Hollingsed, Nigel G. Ward
2007Slate8 citations Open access
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Towards Continuous Estimation of Dissatisfaction in Spoken Dialog
Nigel G. Ward, Jonathan Avila, A. M. Alarcon
2021SIGDIAL Conferences7 citations Open access
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Inferring Stance from Prosody
Nigel G. Ward, Jason C. Carlson, O. Fuentes, Diego Castán +2 more
2017Interspeech7 citations
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Data Collection for the Similar Segments in Social Speech Task
Nigel G. Ward, Steven D. Werner
20137 citations
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Patterns of Importance Variation in Spoken Dialog
Nigel G. Ward, Karen Richart-Ruiz
2013SIGDIAL Conference7 citations
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Estimating the potential of signal and interlocutor-track information for language modeling
Nigel G. Ward, B. H. Walker
2009Interspeech7 citations
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Looking for Entropy Rate Constancy in Spoken Dialog
Nigel G. Ward, A. Vega
20097 citations
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Towards the use of inferred cognitive states in language modeling
Nigel G. Ward, A. Vega
20092009 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition & Understanding7 citations
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Individual Interaction Styles: Evidence from a Spoken Chat Corpus
Nigel G. Ward
2021SIGDIAL Conferences6 citations Open access
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Generating a variety of backchannel forms based on linguistic and prosodic features for attentive listening agents
Takashi Yamaguchi, K. Inoue, Yoshino Koichiro, K. Takanashi +2 more
20166 citations Open access
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On the possibility of predicting gaze aversion to improve video-chat efficiency
Nigel G. Ward, Chelsey N. Jurado, Ricardo A. Garcia, Florencia A. Ramos
2016Eye Tracking Research & Application6 citations
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The Death of the Actor
Nigel G. Ward
20106 citations
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A Corpus for Investigating English-Language Learners' Dialog Behaviors
Nigel G. Ward, Paola Gallardo
20155 citations
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Thirty-Two Sample Audio Search Tasks
Nigel G. Ward, Steven D. Werner
20125 citations
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