| 2024 | COLING | My Science Tutor (MyST)-a Large Corpus of Children's Conversational Speech. | Sameer Pradhan, Ronald A. Cole, Wayne H. Ward |
| 2024 | ICASSP | Automatic Speech Recognition Tuned for Child Speech in the Classroom. | Rosy Southwell, Wayne H. Ward, Viet Anh Trinh, Charis Clevenger, Clay Clevenger, Emily Watts, Jason G. Reitman, Sidney D'Mello, Jacob Whitehill |
| 2022 | EDM | Challenges and Feasibility of Automatic Speech Recognition for Modeling Student Collaborative Discourse in Classrooms. | Rosy Southwell, Samuel L. Pugh, E. Margaret Perkoff, Charis Clevenger, Jeffrey B. Bush, Rachel Lieber, Wayne H. Ward, Peter W. Foltz, Sidney D'Mello |
| 2019 | AAAI | Automating Analysis and Feedback to Improve Mathematics Teachers' Classroom Discourse. | Abhijit Suresh, Tamara Sumner, Jennifer Jacobs, Bill Foland, Wayne H. Ward |
| 2016 | ACL | My Science Tutor - Learning Science with a Conversational Virtual Tutor. | Sameer Pradhan, Ronald A. Cole, Wayne H. Ward |
| 2012 | Interspeech | How Marni Helps English Language Learners Acquire Oral Reading Fluency. | Ronald A. Cole, Daniel Bolaos, Wayne H. Ward, J. T. Carmer, Eric Borts, Edward Svirsky |
| 2012 | Interspeech | Spoken Dialogs With a Virtual Science Tutor. | Wayne H. Ward, Daniel Bolaos, Ronald A. Cole |
| 2012 | ITS | Learning to Tutor Like a Tutor: Ranking Questions in Context. | Lee Becker, Martha Palmer, Sarel van Vuuren, Wayne H. Ward |
| 2010 | EDM | DISCUSS: Enabling Detailed Characterization of Tutorial Interactions Through Dialogue Annotation. | Lee Becker, Wayne H. Ward, Sarel van Vuuren |
| 2009 | AMIA | Towards Temporal Relation Discovery from the Clinical Narrative. | Guergana Savova, Steven Bethard, William F. Styler IV, James H. Martin, Martha Palmer, James J. Masanz, Wayne H. Ward |
| 2008 | ACL | Extracting a Representation from Text for Semantic Analysis. | Rodney D. Nielsen, Wayne H. Ward, James H. Martin, Martha Palmer |
| 2008 | FlAIRS | Learning to Assess Low-Level Conceptual Understanding. | Rodney D. Nielsen, Wayne H. Ward, James H. Martin |
| 2008 | Interspeech | Implicit state-tying for support vector machines based speech recognition. | Daniel Bolaos, Wayne H. Ward |
| 2008 | Interspeech | Pronunciation error detection techniques for children's speech. | Daniel Bolaos, Wayne H. Ward, Barbara Wise, Sarel van Vuuren |
| 2008 | ITS | Automatic Generation of Fine-Grained Representations of Learner Response Semantics. | Rodney D. Nielsen, Wayne H. Ward, James H. Martin |
| 2008 | LREC | Annotating Students' Understanding of Science Concepts. | Rodney D. Nielsen, Wayne H. Ward, James H. Martin, Martha Palmer |
| 2007 | ACL | A Corpus of Fine-Grained Entailment Relations. | Rodney D. Nielsen, Wayne H. Ward |
| 2007 | Interspeech | Syllable lattices as a basis for a children's speech reading tracker. | Daniel Bolaos, Wayne H. Ward, Sarel van Vuuren, Javier Garrido Salas |
| 2007 | NAACL | Towards Robust Semantic Role Labeling. | Sameer S. Pradhan, Wayne H. Ward, James H. Martin |
| 2005 | ACL | Semantic Role Labeling Using Different Syntactic Views. | Sameer S. Pradhan, Wayne H. Ward, Kadri Hacioglu, James H. Martin, Daniel Jurafsky |
| 2005 | CoNLL | Semantic Role Chunking Combining Complementary Syntactic Views. | Sameer Pradhan, Kadri Hacioglu, Wayne H. Ward, James H. Martin, Daniel Jurafsky |
| 2005 | PERCOM | Interactive Pathway for Learning Design through Agent and Library Augmented Shared Knowledge Areas (ALASKA). | Eric Hamilton, Ronald A. Cole, Wayne H. Ward, Chris DiGiano, Dave LaBine |
| 2004 | CoNLL | Semantic Role Labeling by Tagging Syntactic Chunks. | Kadri Hacioglu, Sameer Pradhan, Wayne H. Ward, James H. Martin, Daniel Jurafsky |
| 2004 | ICASSP | Parsing speech into articulatory events. | Kadri Hacioglu, Bryan L. Pellom, Wayne H. Ward |
| 2004 | NAACL | Parsing Arguments of Nominalizations in English and Chinese. | Sameer Pradhan, Honglin Sun, Wayne H. Ward, James H. Martin, Daniel Jurafsky |
| 2004 | NAACL | Shallow Semantic Parsing using Support Vector Machines. | Sameer S. Pradhan, Wayne H. Ward, Kadri Hacioglu, James H. Martin, Daniel Jurafsky |
| 2003 | ICDM | Semantic Role Parsing: Adding Semantic Structure to Unstructured Text. | Sameer S. Pradhan, Kadri Hacioglu, Wayne H. Ward, James H. Martin, Daniel Jurafsky |
| 2003 | NAACL | Target Word Detection and Semantic Role Chunking using Support Vector Machines. | Kadri Hacioglu, Wayne H. Ward |
| 2003 | NAACL | Question Classification with Support Vector Machines and Error Correcting Codes. | Kadri Hacioglu, Wayne H. Ward |
| 2002 | ICASSP | A concept graph based confidence measure. | Kadri Hacioglu, Wayne H. Ward |
| 2002 | ICASSP | Estimating semantic confidence for spoken dialogue systems. | Sameer S. Pradhan, Wayne H. Ward |
| 2002 | ICASSP | Phone based voice activity detection using online Bayesian adaptation with conjugate normal distributions. | Jianping Zhang, Wayne H. Ward, Bryan L. Pellom |
| 2002 | Interspeech | A figure of merit for the analysis of spoken dialog systems. | Kadri Hacioglu, Wayne H. Ward |
| 2001 | ICASSP | Dialog-context dependent language modeling combining n-grams and stochastic context-free grammars. | Kadri Hacioglu, Wayne H. Ward |
| 2001 | ICASSP | What kind of pronunciation variation is hard for triphones to model? | Dan Jurafsky, Wayne H. Ward, Zhang Banping, Keith Herold, Xiuyang Yu, Zhang Sen |
| 2001 | ICASSP | Confidence measures for spoken dialogue systems. | Rubn San Segundo, Bryan L. Pellom, Kadri Hacioglu, Wayne H. Ward, Jos M. Pardo |
| 2001 | Interspeech | A word graph interface for a flexible concept based speech understanding framework. | Kadri Hacioglu, Wayne H. Ward |
| 2001 | Interspeech | "CU-move" : analysis & corpus development for interactive in-vehicle speech systems. | John H. L. Hansen, Pongtep Angkititrakul, Jay P. Plucienkowski, Stephen Gallant, Umit H. Yapanel, Bryan L. Pellom, Wayne H. Ward, Ronald A. Cole |
| 2001 | Interspeech | Improvements in audio processing and language modeling in the CU communicator. | Jianping Zhang, Wayne H. Ward, Bryan L. Pellom, Xiuyang Yu, Kadri Hacioglu |
| 2001 | NAACL | On Combining Language Models: Oracle Approach. | Kadri Hacioglu, Wayne H. Ward |
| 2001 | NAACL | University of Colorado Dialogue Systems for Travel and Navigation. | Bryan L. Pellom, Wayne H. Ward, John H. L. Hansen, Ronald A. Cole, Kadri Hacioglu, J. Zhang, X. Yu, Sameer Pradhan |
| 2000 | ICASSP | Confidence measures for dialogue management in the CU Communicator system. | Rubn San Segundo, Bryan L. Pellom, Wayne H. Ward, Jos M. Pardo |
| 2000 | Interspeech | "CU-move": robust speech processing for in-vehicle speech systems. | John H. L. Hansen, Jay P. Plucienkowski, Stephen Gallant, Bryan L. Pellom, Wayne H. Ward |
| 2000 | Interspeech | The CU communicator: an architecture for dialogue systems. | Bryan L. Pellom, Wayne H. Ward, Sameer S. Pradhan |
| 1999 | Interspeech | Corrective training for speaker adaptation. | Xiuyang Yu, Wayne H. Ward |
| 1998 | Interspeech | A language model combining trigrams and stochastic context-free grammars. | John Gillett, Wayne H. Ward |
| 1998 | Interspeech | Temporal organization of speech for normal and fast rates. | Geetha Krishnan, Wayne H. Ward |
| 1997 | Interspeech | A senone based confidence measure for speech recognition. | Zachary Bergen, Wayne H. Ward |
| 1997 | Interspeech | Lexical tuning based on triphone confidence estimation. | Kevin L. Markey, Wayne H. Ward |
| 1996 | ICASSP | A class based language model for speech recognition. | Wayne H. Ward, Sunil Issar |
| 1995 | ICASSP | Concept-based speech translation. | Laura Mayfield, Marsal Gavald, Wayne H. Ward, Alex Waibel |
| 1995 | IJCAI | Integrating different learning approaches into a multilingual spoken language translation system. | Petra Geutner, Bernhard Suhm, Finn Dag Bu, Thomas Kemp, Laura Mayfield, Arthur E. McNair, Ivica Rogina, Tanja Schultz, Tilo Sloboda, Wayne H. Ward, Monika Woszczyna, Alex Waibel |
| 1994 | ICASSP | Unanswerable queries in a spontaneous speech task. | Sunil Issar, Wayne H. Ward |
| 1994 | ICASSP | Integrating semantic constraints into the Sphinx-II recognition search. | Wayne H. Ward, Sunil Issar |
| 1994 | Interspeech | Error-responsive modifications to speech recognizers: negative n-grams. | Lin Lawrence Chase, Ronald Rosenfeld, Wayne H. Ward |
| 1994 | Interspeech | Extracting information in spontaneous speech. | Wayne H. Ward |
| 1994 | NAACL | Recent Improvements in the CMU Spoken Language Understanding System. | Wayne H. Ward, Sunil Issar |
| 1993 | ICASSP | Flexible use of semantic constraints in speech recognition. | Wayne H. Ward, Sheryl Young |
| 1993 | ICASSP | Learning new words from spontaneous speech. | Sheryl R. Young, Wayne H. Ward |
| 1993 | Interspeech | CMLPs robust spoken language understanding system. | Sunil Issar, Wayne H. Ward |
| 1993 | Interspeech | Recent advances in JANUS: a speech translation system. | Monika Woszczyna, Noah Coccaro, Andreas Eisele, Alon Lavie, Arthur E. McNair, Thomas Polzin, Ivica Rogina, Carolyn P. Ros, Tilo Sloboda, Masaru Tomita, J. Tsutsumi, Naomi Aoki-Waibel, Alex Waibel, Wayne H. Ward |
| 1993 | Interspeech | Recognition confidence measures for spontaneous spoken dialog. | Sheryl R. Young, Wayne H. Ward |
| 1993 | Interspeech | Semantic and pragmatically based re-recognition of spontaneous speech. | Sheryl R. Young, Wayne H. Ward |
| 1993 | NAACL | Recent advances in JANUS: a speech translation system. | Monika Woszczyna, Noah Coccaro, Andreas Eisele, Alon Lavie, Arthur E. McNair, Thomas Polzin, Ivica Rogina, Carolyn P. Ros, Tilo Sloboda, Masaru Tomita, J. Tsutsumi, Naomi Aoki-Waibel, Alex Waibel, Wayne H. Ward |
| 1992 | NAACL | Speech Understanding in Open Tasks. | Wayne H. Ward, Sunil lssar, Xuedong Huang, Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Mei-Yuh Hwang, Sheryl Young, Michael Matessa, Fu-Hua Liu, Richard M. Stern |
| 1991 | ICASSP | Incorporating LR parsing into SPHINX. | Kenji Kita, Wayne H. Ward |
| 1991 | ICASSP | Understanding spontaneous speech: the Phoenix system. | Wayne H. Ward |
| 1991 | NAACL | Evaluation of the CMU ATIS System. | Wayne H. Ward |
| 1990 | NAACL | Session 1: Spoken Language Systems I. | Wayne H. Ward |
| 1990 | NAACL | The CMU Air Travel Information Service: Understanding Spontaneous Speech. | Wayne H. Ward |
| 1989 | IJCAI | Layering Predictions: Flexible Use of Dialog Expectation in Speech Recognition. | Sheryl R. Young, Wayne H. Ward, Alexander G. Hauptmann |
| 1989 | NAACL | Understanding Spontaneous Speech. | Wayne H. Ward |
| 1989 | NAACL | Modelling Non-verbal Sounds for Speech Recognition. | Wayne H. Ward |
| 1988 | AAAI | Using Dialog-Level Knowledge Sources to Improve Speech Recognition. | Alexander G. Hauptmann, Sheryl R. Young, Wayne H. Ward |
| 1988 | ICASSP | Parsing spoken phrases despite missing words. | Wayne H. Ward, Alexander G. Hauptmann, Richard M. Stern, Thomas Chanak |
| 1987 | ICASSP | Sentence parsing with weak grammatical constraints. | Richard M. Stern, Wayne H. Ward, Alexander G. Hauptmann, Juan Leon |