• Ph D in Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley (1991)
• BS in Computer and Communication Sciences; Mathematics (dual major), The University of Michigan (1983)

• Perspectives on Prosody: A New Resource for Language Educators As We Speak, the Newsletter of the TESOL Speech, Pronunciation, and Listening Interest Section (2023), Nigel Ward.
• A Dimensional Model of Interaction Style Variation in Spoken Dialog. Speech Communication (2023), Nigel Ward, Jonathan Avila.
• Dialogs Re-enacted Across Languages, Version 2 Technical Report UTEP-CS-23-27, 2023 (2023), Nigel Ward, Jonathan E. Avila, Emilia Rivas, Divette Marco.
• The Prosodic Expressions of Negative Micro-Sentiment Vary Across Corpora International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems (2023), Dimitri E. Lyon, Nigel Ward.
• Towards Cross-Language Prosody Transfer for Dialog. Interspeech (2023), Nigel Ward, Jonathan E. Avila.
• Comparison of Models for Detecting Off-Putting Speaking Styles. Proceedings of Interspeech (2022), Diego Aguirre, Nigel Ward, Jonathan E. Avila.
• Dialogs Re-enacted Across Languages. Technical Report UTEP-CS-22-108. Technical Report UTEP-CS-22-108. (2022), Nigel Ward, Jonathan E. Avila, Emilia Rivas.
• On the Predictability of the Prosody of Dialog Markers from the Prosody of the Local Context. Speech Prosody Conference, 2022 (2022), Anindita Nath, Nigel Ward.
• Spoken Language Interaction with Robots: Recommendations for Future Research. Computer Speech and Language 71 (2022), Matthew Marge, Carol Espy-Wilson, Nigel Ward.
• Using Interaction Style Dimensions to Characterize Spoken Dialog Corpora Sigdial (Conference on Discourse and Dialog) (2022), Nigel Ward.
• Individual Interaction Styles: Evidence from a Spoken Chat Corpus SigDial Conference on Discourse and Dialogue (2021), Nigel Ward.
• The UTEP Corpus of Dissatisfaction in Spoken Dialog. UTEP CS Technical Report UTEP-CS-21-23 (2021), Jonathan Avila, Nigel Ward, Aaron Alarcon.
• Towards Continuous Estimation of Dissatisfaction in Spoken Dialog SigDial Conference on Discourse and Dialogue (2021), Nigel Ward, Jonathan Avila, Aaron Alarcon.
• Ten Prosodic Patterns of Turn-Taking in Japanese Conversation Speech Prosody (2020), Nigel Ward.
• Using Prosody to Find Mentions of Urgent Problems in Radio Broadcasts Speech Prosody (2020), Nigel Ward, James A. Jodoin, Anindita Nath, Olac Fuentes.
• Using Prosody to Spot Location Mentions Speech Prosody 2020 (2020), Gerardo Cervantes, Nigel Ward.
• Prosodic Patterns in English Conversation Cambridge University Press (2019), Nigel Ward.
• A Prosodic Configuration that Conveys Positive Assessment in American English International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences, 2019. (2019), Nigel Ward, James A. Jodoin.
• Planning for a Corpus of Continuous Ratings of Spoken Dialog Quality (2019), Nigel Ward.

• Prosodic Constructions (Keynote) (2023), Nigel Ward.
• Adventures in the Pedagogy of Prosody (2023), Nigel Ward.
• Teaching the Prosody of Contrast and Complaint (2023), Nigel Ward.
• A Dimensional Model of Interaction Style Variation in Spoken Dialog (2022), Nigel Ward.
• Prosody: What, Why and How. (2022), Nigel Ward.
• Prosody research and applications: the state of the art (2022), Nigel Ward.
• Dimensions of Interaction Style Variation in Spoken Dialog (2021), Nigel Ward.
• Microsentiment in Spoken Dialog: Some Complexities of Positive and Negative Assessment (2021), Nigel Ward.
• Prosody: Models, Methods, and Applications (Half-Day Tutorial) (2021), Nigel Ward.
• Patterns of Interactional Prosody in Youth with and without Autism (2021), Nigel Ward, Jonatan Contreras, Heike Lehnert-LeHouillier.
• Pretrained Prosodic Models for Pragmatics Purposes (2021), Nigel Ward.
• Prosody in Dialog and Action Coordination (keynote) (2019), Nigel Ward.

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