| 2025 | ICASSP | Which Prosodic Features Matter Most for Pragmatics? | Nigel G. Ward, Divette Marco, Olac Fuentes |
| 2025 | ICASSP | 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 |
| 2024 | COLING | A Collection of Pragmatic-Similarity Judgments over Spoken Dialog Utterances. | Nigel G. Ward, Divette Marco |
| 2024 | Interspeech | Pragmatically similar utterance finder demonstration. | Nigel G. Ward, Andres Segura |
| 2024 | Interspeech | Towards a General-Purpose Model of Perceived Pragmatic Similarity. | Nigel G. Ward, Andres Segura, Alejandro Ceballos, Divette Marco |
| 2023 | Interspeech | Towards Cross-Language Prosody Transfer for Dialog. | Jonathan E. Avila, Nigel G. Ward |
| 2022 | Interspeech | Comparison of Models for Detecting Off-Putting Speaking Styles. | Diego Aguirre, Nigel G. Ward, Jonathan E. Avila, Heike Lehnert-LeHouillier |
| 2021 | SIGdial | Towards Continuous Estimation of Dissatisfaction in Spoken Dialog. | Nigel G. Ward, Jonathan E. Avila, Aaron M. Alarcon |
| 2019 | Interspeech | Survey Talk: Prosody Research and Applications: The State of the Art. | Nigel G. Ward |
| 2017 | Interspeech | Inferring Stance from Prosody. | Nigel G. Ward, Jason C. Carlson, Olac Fuentes, Diego Castn, Elizabeth Shriberg, Andreas Tsiartas |
| 2016 | ETRA | On the possibility of predicting gaze aversion to improve video-chat efficiency. | Nigel G. Ward, Chelsey N. Jurado, Ricardo A. Garcia, Florencia A. Ramos |
| 2016 | Interspeech | Prediction and Generation of Backchannel Form for Attentive Listening Systems. | Tatsuya Kawahara, Takashi Yamaguchi, Koji Inoue, Katsuya Takanashi, Nigel G. Ward |
| 2013 | Interspeech | Using dialog-activity similarity for spoken information retrieval. | Nigel G. Ward, Steven D. Werner |
| 2012 | Interspeech | Towards Empirical Dialog-State Modeling and its Use in Language Modeling. | Nigel G. Ward, Alejandro Vega |
| 2012 | NAACL | Directions for Research on Spoken Dialog Systems, Broadly Defined. | Nigel G. Ward |
| 2012 | SIGdial | A Bottom-Up Exploration of the Dimensions of Dialog State in Spoken Interaction. | Nigel G. Ward, Alejandro Vega |
| 2010 | Interspeech | Dialog prediction for a general model of turn-taking. | Nigel G. Ward, Olac Fuentes, Alejandro Vega |
| 2009 | ASRU | Towards the use of inferred cognitive states in language modeling. | Nigel G. Ward, Alejandro Vega |
| 2009 | Interspeech | Responding to user emotional state by adding emotional coloring to utterances. | Jaime C. Acosta, Nigel G. Ward |
| 2009 | Interspeech | Using responsive prosodic variation to acknowledge the user's current state. | Nigel G. Ward, Rafael Escalante-Ruiz |
| 2009 | Interspeech | Estimating the potential of signal and interlocutor-track information for language modeling. | Nigel G. Ward, Benjamin H. Walker |
| 2008 | Interspeech | Modeling the effects on time-into-utterance on word probabilities. | Nigel G. Ward, Alejandro Vega |
| 2006 | Interspeech | Prosodic feature generation for back-channel prediction. | Thamar Solorio, Olac Fuentes, Nigel G. Ward, Yaffa Al Bayyari |
| 2006 | Interspeech | A case study in the identification of prosodic cues to turn-taking: back-channeling in Arabic. | Nigel G. Ward, Yaffa Al Bayyari |
| 2005 | Interspeech | Root causes of lost time and user stress in a simple dialog system. | Nigel G. Ward, Anais G. Rivera, Karen Ward, David G. Novick |