Wayne Ward

Daniel Bolaños, Ronald A. Cole, Wayne Ward, Gerald A. Tindal, Paula J. Schwanenflugel, Melanie R. Kuhn: Automatic assessment of expressive oral reading. Speech Communication 55(2): 221-236 (2013)

Ronald A. Cole, Daniel Bolaños, Wayne Ward, J. T. Carmer, Eric Borts, Edward Svirsky: How Marni Helps English Language Learners Acquire Oral Reading Fluency. INTERSPEECH 2012

Wayne Ward, Daniel Bolaños, Ronald A. Cole: Spoken Dialogs With a Virtual Science Tutor. INTERSPEECH 2012

Lee Becker, Martha Palmer, Sarel van Vuuren, Wayne Ward: Learning to Tutor Like a Tutor: Ranking Questions in Context. ITS 2012: 368-378

Daniel Bolaños, Ronald A. Cole, Wayne Ward, Eric Borts, Edward Svirsky: FLORA: Fluent oral reading assessment of children's speech. TSLP 7(4): 16 (2011)

Wayne Ward, Ronald A. Cole, Daniel Bolaños, Cindy Buchenroth-Martin, Edward Svirsky, Sarel van Vuuren, Timothy Weston, Jing Zheng, Lee Becker: My science tutor: A conversational multimedia virtual tutor for elementary school science. TSLP 7(4): 18 (2011)

Rodney D. Nielsen, James J. Masanz, Philip V. Ogren, Wayne Ward, James H. Martin, Guergana K. Savova, Martha Palmer: An architecture for complex clinical question answering. IHI 2010: 395-399

Rodney D. Nielsen, Wayne Ward, James H. Martin: Recognizing entailment in intelligent tutoring systems. Natural Language Engineering 15(4): 479-501 (2009)

Sameer S. Pradhan, Wayne Ward, James H. Martin: Towards Robust Semantic Role Labeling. Computational Linguistics 34(2): 289-310 (2008)

Rodney D. Nielsen, Wayne Ward, James H. Martin, Martha Palmer: Extracting a Representation from Text for Semantic Analysis. ACL (Short Papers) 2008: 241-244

Rodney D. Nielsen, Wayne Ward, James H. Martin: Learning to Assess Low-Level Conceptual Understanding. FLAIRS Conference 2008: 427-432

Daniel Bolaños, Wayne Ward: Implicit state-tying for support vector machines based speech recognition. INTERSPEECH 2008: 924-927

Daniel Bolaños, Wayne Ward, Barbara Wise, Sarel van Vuuren: Pronunciation error detection techniques for children's speech. INTERSPEECH 2008: 1725-1728

Rodney D. Nielsen, Wayne Ward, James H. Martin: Automatic Generation of Fine-Grained Representations of Learner Response Semantics. Intelligent Tutoring Systems 2008: 173-183

Rodney D. Nielsen, Wayne Ward, James H. Martin, Martha Palmer: Annotating Students' Understanding of Science Concepts. LREC 2008

Rodney D. Nielsen, Wayne Ward, James H. Martin: Soft Computing in Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Educational Assessment. Soft Computing Applications in Business 2008: 201-230

Steven Bethard, Rodney D. Nielsen, James H. Martin, Wayne Ward, Martha Palmer: Semantic Integration in Learning from Text. AAAI Spring Symposium: Machine Reading 2007: 17-22

Daniel Bolaños, Wayne Ward, Sarel van Vuuren, Javier Garrido: Syllable lattices as a basis for a children's speech reading tracker. INTERSPEECH 2007: 198-201

Sameer S. Pradhan, Wayne Ward, James H. Martin: Towards Robust Semantic Role Labeling. HLT-NAACL 2007: 556-563

Jiyong Ma, Ronald A. Cole, Bryan L. Pellom, Wayne Ward, Barbara Wise: Accurate Visible Speech Synthesis Based on Concatenating Variable Length Motion Capture Data. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 12(2): 266-276 (2006)

S. Su, José A. B. Fortes, T. R. Kasad, M. Patil, Andréa M. Matsunaga, Maurício O. Tsugawa, Violetta Cavalli-Sforza, Jaime G. Carbonell, Peter J. Jansen, Wayne Ward, Ronald A. Cole, Donald F. Towsley, Weifeng Chen, Annie I. Antón, Qingfeng He, C. McSweeney, L. deBrens, J. Ventura, P. Taveras, R. Connolly, C. Ortega, B. Piñeres, O. Brooks, G. A. Murillo, M. Herrera: Transnational Information Sharing, Event Notification, Rule Enforcement and Process Coordination. IJEGR 1(2): 1-26 (2005)

Sameer S. Pradhan, Kadri Hacioglu, Valerie Krugler, Wayne Ward, James H. Martin, Daniel Jurafsky: Support Vector Learning for Semantic Argument Classification. Machine Learning 60(1-3): 11-39 (2005)

Sameer S. Pradhan, Wayne Ward, Kadri Hacioglu, James H. Martin, Daniel Jurafsky: Semantic Role Labeling Using Different Syntactic Views. ACL 2005

Eric Hamilton, Ronald A. Cole, Wayne Ward, Chris DiGiano, Dave LaBine: Interactive Pathway for Learning Design through Agent and Library Augmented Shared Knowledge Areas (ALASKA). PerCom Workshops 2005: 296-301

Jiyong Ma, Ronald A. Cole, Bryan L. Pellom, Wayne Ward, Barbara Wise: Accurate automatic visible speech synthesis of arbitrary 3D models based on concatenation of diviseme motion capture data. Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation 15(5): 485-500 (2004)

S. Su, José A. B. Fortes, T. R. Kasad, M. Patil, Andréa M. Matsunaga, Maurício O. Tsugawa, Violetta Cavalli-Sforza, Jaime G. Carbonell, Peter J. Jansen, Wayne Ward, Ronald A. Cole, Donald F. Towsley, Weifeng Chen, Annie I. Antón, Qingfeng He, C. McSweeney, L. deBrens, J. Ventura, P. Taveras, R. Connolly, C. Ortega, B. Piñeres, O. Brooks, M. Herrera: A Prototype System for Transnational Information Sharing and Process Coordination. DG.O 2004

S. Su, José A. B. Fortes, T. R. Kasad, M. Patil, Andréa M. Matsunaga, Maurício O. Tsugawa, Violetta Cavalli-Sforza, Jaime G. Carbonell, Peter J. Jansen, Wayne Ward, Ronald A. Cole, Donald F. Towsley, Weifeng Chen, Annie I. Antón, Qingfeng He, C. McSweeney, L. deBrens, J. Ventura, P. Taveras, R. Connolly, C. Ortega, B. Piñeres, O. Brooks, M. Herrera: A Prototype System for Transnational Information Sharing and Process Coordination: System Demo. DG.O 2004

Sameer S. Pradhan, Wayne Ward, Kadri Hacioglu, James H. Martin, Daniel Jurafsky: Shallow Semantic Parsing using Support Vector Machines. HLT-NAACL 2004: 233-240

Sameer S. Pradhan, Kadri Hacioglu, Wayne Ward, James H. Martin, Daniel Jurafsky: Semantic Role Parsing: Adding Semantic Structure to Unstructured Text. ICDM 2003: 629-632

Kadri Hacioglu, Wayne Ward: Target Word Detection and Semantic Role Chunking using Support Vector Machines. HLT-NAACL 2003

Kadri Hacioglu, Wayne Ward: Question Classification with Support Vector Machines and Error Correcting Codes. HLT-NAACL 2003

Kadri Hacioglu, Wayne Ward: A concept graph based confidence measure. ICASSP 2002: 225-228

Sameer S. Pradhan, Wayne Ward: Estimating semantic confidence for spoken dialogue systems. ICASSP 2002: 233-236

Jianping Zhang, Wayne Ward, Bryan L. Pellom: Phone based voice activity detection using online Bayesian adaptation with conjugate normal distributions. ICASSP 2002: 321-324

Kadri Hacioglu, Wayne Ward: A figure of merit for the analysis of spoken dialog systems. INTERSPEECH 2002

Sameer S. Pradhan, Valerie Krugler, Steven Bethard, Wayne Ward, Daniel Jurafsky, James H. Martin, Sasha Blair-Goldensohn, Andrew Hazen Schlaikjer, Elena Filatova, Pablo Ariel Duboué, Hong Yu, Rebecca J. Passonneau, Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, Kathleen McKeown, Gabriel Illouz: Building a Foundation System for Producing Short Answers to Factual Questions. TREC 2002

Kadri Hacioglu, Wayne Ward: A word graph interface for a flexible concept based speech understanding framework. INTERSPEECH 2001: 1775-1778

John H. L. Hansen, Pongtep Angkititrakul, Jay P. Plucienkowski, Stephen Gallant, Umit H. Yapanel, Bryan L. Pellom, Wayne Ward, Ronald A. Cole: "CU-move" : analysis & corpus development for interactive in-vehicle speech systems. INTERSPEECH 2001: 2023-2026

Jianping Zhang, Wayne Ward, Bryan L. Pellom, Xiuyang Yu, Kadri Hacioglu: Improvements in audio processing and language modeling in the CU communicator. INTERSPEECH 2001: 2209-2212

John H. L. Hansen, Jay P. Plucienkowski, Stephen Gallant, Bryan L. Pellom, Wayne Ward: "CU-move": robust speech processing for in-vehicle speech systems. INTERSPEECH 2000: 524-527

Bryan L. Pellom, Wayne Ward, Sameer S. Pradhan: The CU communicator: an architecture for dialogue systems. INTERSPEECH 2000: 723-726

Xiuyang Yu, Wayne Ward: Corrective training for speaker adaptation. EUROSPEECH 1999

John Gillett, Wayne Ward: A language model combining trigrams and stochastic context-free grammars. ICSLP 1998

Geetha Krishnan, Wayne Ward: Temporal organization of speech for normal and fast rates. ICSLP 1998

Zachary Bergen, Wayne Ward: A senone based confidence measure for speech recognition. EUROSPEECH 1997

Kevin L. Markey, Wayne Ward: Lexical tuning based on triphone confidence estimation. EUROSPEECH 1997

L. Chase, R. Rosenfeld, Wayne Ward: Error-responsive modifications to speech recognizers: negative n-grams. ICSLP 1994

Wayne Ward: Extracting information in spontaneous speech. ICSLP 1994

Wayne Ward, Sunil Issar: Recent Improvements in the CMU Spoken Language Understanding System. HLT 1994

Sunil Issar, Wayne Ward: CMLPs robust spoken language understanding system. EUROSPEECH 1993

Sheryl R. Young, Wayne Ward: Semantic and pragmatically based re-recognition of spontaneous speech. EUROSPEECH 1993