| 2013 | EMNLP | This Text Has the Scent of Starbucks: A Laplacian Structured Sparsity Model for Computational Branding Analytics. | William Yang Wang, Edward Lin, John Kominek |
| 2009 | ICASSP | Optimizing segment label boundaries for statistical speech synthesis. | Alan W. Black, John Kominek |
| 2008 | Interspeech | Improving speech systems built from very little data. | John Kominek, Sameer Badaskar, Tanja Schultz, Alan W. Black |
| 2007 | Interspeech | SPICE: web-based tools for rapid language adaptation in speech processing systems. | Tanja Schultz, Alan W. Black, Sameer Badaskar, Matthew Hornyak, John Kominek |
| 2006 | NAACL | Learning Pronunciation Dictionaries: Language Complexity and Word Selection Strategies. | John Kominek, Alan W. Black |
| 2005 | Interspeech | Measuring unsupervised acoustic clustering through phoneme pair merge-and-split tests. | John Kominek, Alan W. Black |
| 2005 | Interspeech | The blizzard challenge 2005 CMU entry - a method for improving speech synthesis systems. | John Kominek, Christina L. Bennett, Brian Langner, Arthur R. Toth |
| 2004 | Interspeech | A family-of-models approach to HMM-based segmentation for unit selection speech synthesis. | John Kominek, Alan W. Black |
| 2003 | Interspeech | Evaluating and correcting phoneme segmentation for unit selection synthesis. | John Kominek, Christina L. Bennett, Alan W. Black |
| 1997 | CHI | Accessing Multimedia through Concept Clustering. | John Kominek, Rick Kazman |
| 1995 | DCC | Convergence of Fractal Encoded Images. | John Kominek |