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Nigel Ward

Nigel Ward has 4 papers in our library, in 2000–2026, most of them on Dialogue systems, English, Speech & spoken language; often with Oliver Niebuhr.

4 papers in our library · 2000–2026

OpenAlex · ORCID · h-index 22 · 172 works · 2,139 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 4 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 5 times in our library · 2 more in our library without a page yet · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9502

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 Affiliations

🎓The University of Texas at El PasoEl Paso · United States2003–2025 · 61 paperscurrent🤝Association for Computing MachineryNew York · United States2006–2016 · 26 papers🎓The University of TokyoTokyo · Japan1992–2007 · 20 papers🎓University of California, BerkeleyBerkeley · United States1987–1992 · 4 papers🎓The University of QueenslandBrisbane · Australia2002–2015 · 3 papersEmployment🎓Kyoto UniversityKyoto · Japan2016–2017 · 2 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 5 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📚 Shelves 8The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Arts and Humanities · 4 worksExperimental and Cognitive Psychology · 4 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 4 worksPsychology · 4 worksArtificial Intelligence · 2 worksComputer Science · 2 worksMedicine · 1 workPhysiology · 1 work

🧭 Topics 3Research subjects and languages the work is about.Speech & spoken language · 1 workDialogue systems · 2 worksEnglish · 2 works

 Works by year

2020s

20261 paper20242 papers

2000s

20001 paper

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. Issues in the Transcription of English Conversational Grunts (2000 · 10 citations)
    Short non-lexical sounds such as uh-huh, um, mm and oh turn up constantly in spoken English, yet no transcription convention captures them both reliably and usefully.
  2. Which Prosodic Features Matter Most for Pragmatics? (2024 · 4 citations)
    The paper asks which kinds of prosodic features carry the most pragmatic information in spoken dialog, where pragmatics covers things like enthusiasm, topic shifts, turn yielding and criticism.
  3. Tools for Estimating the Perceived Level of Phonetic Reduction (2026)
    Phonetic reduction, meaning less careful articulation, is frequent in casual conversation and helps signal pragmatic functions such as holding the turn or positive assessment.
  4. Topics in the Study of the Pragmatic Functions of Phonetic Reduction in Dialog (2024)
    Speakers in conversation often articulate less carefully, but this phonetic reduction has rarely been studied in dialog, either acoustically or for what it signals.

All works

6 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 4 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

  1. Issues in the Transcription of English Conversational GruntsAnnual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)Nigel Ward2000 · 10 citations
  2. Which Prosodic Features Matter Most for Pragmatics?IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal ProcessingNigel G. Ward, Divette Marco, Olac Fuentes2024 · 4 citations
  3. A Collection of Pragmatic-Similarity Judgments over Spoken Dialog Utterances ↗Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) · no summary yetNigel Ward, Divette Marco2024 · 2 citations
  4. Tools for Estimating the Perceived Level of Phonetic ReductionLanguage Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)Nigel Ward, Javier Vazquez, Emma (Danny) R. Boushka, et al.2026
  5. Spoken language interaction with robots: Recommendations for future research ↗Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) · no summary yetRaymond J. Mooney et al.2025
  6. Topics in the Study of the Pragmatic Functions of Phonetic Reduction in DialogarXiv:2405.01376Nigel G. Ward, Carlos A. Ortega2024

 Co-authors here

1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first.

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 5 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 3 citing papers with a page here →.

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