| 2026 | LREC | Tools for Estimating the Perceived Level of Phonetic Reduction. | Nigel Ward, Javier Vazquez, Emma (Danny) R. Boushka, Oliver Niebuhr |
| 2022 | SIGdial | Using Interaction Style Dimensions to Characterize Spoken Dialog Corpora. | Nigel Ward |
| 2021 | SIGdial | Individual Interaction Styles: Evidence from a Spoken Chat Corpus. | Nigel Ward |
| 2013 | SIGdial | Patterns of Importance Variation in Spoken Dialog. | Nigel Ward, Karen Richart-Ruiz |
| 2008 | SIGdial | A Framework for Model-based Evaluation of Spoken Dialog Systems. | Sebastian Mller, Nigel Ward |
| 2002 | DC | Building Educational Metadata Application Profiles. | Norm Friesen, Jon Mason, Nigel Ward |
| 2002 | Interspeech | Can confidence scores help users post-editing speech recognizer output? | Taku Endo, Nigel Ward, Minoru Terada |
| 2002 | Interspeech | Automatic user-adaptive speaking rate selection for information delivery. | Nigel Ward, Satoshi Nakagawa |
| 2001 | CHI | Responding to subtle, fleeting changes in the user's internal state. | Wataru Tsukahara, Nigel Ward |
| 2001 | ISWC | A Wearable Cross-language Communication Aid. | Jani Patokallio, Nigel Ward |
| 2000 | Interspeech | Evaluating responsiveness in spoken dialog systems. | Wataru Tsukahara, Nigel Ward |
| 2000 | Interspeech | The challenge of non-lexical speech sounds. | Nigel Ward |
| 2000 | SIGdial | Issues in the Transcription of English Conversational Grunts. | Nigel Ward |
| 1998 | Interspeech | Pacing spoken directions to suit the listener. | Tatsuya Iwase, Nigel Ward |
| 1996 | Interspeech | Using prosodic clues to decide when to produce back-channel utterances. | Nigel Ward |
| 1994 | Interspeech | A lightweight parser for speech understanding. | Nigel Ward |
| 1993 | FM | Adding Specification Constructors to the Refinement Calculus. | Nigel Ward |
| 1992 | COLING | An Alternative to Deep Case for Representing Relational Information. | Nigel Ward |
| 1990 | INLG | A Connectionist Treatment of Grammar for Generation: Relying on Emergents. | Nigel Ward |
| 1988 | COLING | Issues in word choice. | Nigel Ward |