Computer Science Project

NIGEL WARD

**** ** ****** ********** ** Computer Science

El Paso, Texas 79912 University of Texas at El Paso

phone/fax: +1-915-***-**** El Paso, Texas 79968-1518

abo7ew@r.postjobfree.com://nigelward.com/ phone: +1-915-***-****

Research Interests

Spoken Dialog Systems, Human-Computer Interaction: Turn-Taking and Back-Chan-

neling, Prosody, Language Modeling, Cognitive Modeling, Non-Lexical Utterances, Emotion

in

Speech, Cross-Cultural Communication, Mediated Communication, Teaching and Learning Appli-

cations

Employment

2002present. University of Texas at El Paso, Computer Science Department, Associate

Professor2002 2010, Professor 2010 present

.

19922002. University of Tokyo, Department of Mechano-Informatics, Graduate School of

Information Science and Technology and Faculty of Engineering. Lecturer19921994,

Associate

Professor, 1994 2002.

19911992. University of Tokyo, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology,

Visiting Researcher

.

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science. University of California at Berkeley, 1991.

B.S. with Honors, Computer and Communication Sciences; Mathematics. University of

Michigan,

Ann Arbor, 1983.

RESEARCH

BOOK

A Connectionist Language Generator. Nigel Ward. Ablex, 1994.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

REFEREED CONFERENCE PAPERS

REFEREED SYMPOSIUM AND WORKSHOP PAPERS

AWARDS

Best Paper Award, PACLING (Pacific Computational Linguistics Conference), 2001 .

Kokuhi Fellowship (Japanese Government, Monbusho), 1988 1989.

National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1983 1986.

AWARDS WON BY ADVISEES

Alejandro Vega. Honorable Mention. Computing Research Association Outstanding Under-

graduate Research Awards 2010.Jaime C. Acosta. University Outstanding Dissertation Award for 2009 (UTEP). ACTEDS

(Army Civilian Training, Education and Development System) award (covering full tuition

for the

duration of studies, plus one year of paid leave to work full time on Ph.D. research),

2008; Summer

Internship at the University of Pittsburgh LearnLab, 2008; Graduate School Banner Bearer

for the

Spring 2007 Commencement.

Rafael Escalante. Scholarship to attend the NAACL Summer School in Human Language

Technology, 2007.

VISITING POSITIONS

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University of California at Santa Cruz, Perceptual Science Laboratory. Visiting

Professor,

1998 1999.

GRANTS

As PI:

submitted: Time-Based Language Modeling, National Science Foundation (IIS), 2009-2012,

$499,606.

submitted: Modeling the Dynamics of Participation in Spoken Dialog, National Science Foun-

dation (CDI preproposal), 2009-2012, $1,039,000.

Developing Models of Back-Channel Behavior and Evaluation Metrics, subcontract to USC In-

stitute for Creative Technologies, 2008 2009, $39,000.

Back-Channel Behaviors and Perceptions of Rapport, subcontract to USC Institute for

Creative

Technologies, 2007 2008, $38,000.

Beyond Words: Identification of Back-Channel Communication Rules in Arabic and Develop-

ment of Training Methods, DARPA (subcontract to USC ISI), 2005-2007. $419,876.

Modeling Real-Time Interpersonal Interaction in Spoken Communication, Principal

Investigator,

National Science Foundation, 2004 2009. $506,878, including supplements.

(105Y= ' $1)

A Wearable System to Support Cross-Language Communication, (Principal Investigator),

1,000,000Y=. Casio Foundation, 2001 2002.

Prosodic Aspects of Sub-lexical Utterances, 2,800,000Y= for F2000, 2,850,000Y= for F2001,

as

a subcontract of the Specific Area B Grant on Prosodic Control for High Quality Speech

Synthesis, Ministry of Education, Japan, F2000 2003.

A Conversational-Reflex Training System for Second Language Learners. (Principal

Investiga-

tor), 2,100,000Y=. Specific Area A Grant, Ministry of Education, Japan, F2000.

User-Adaptive Information Delivery by Voice (Principal Investigator) 1,700,000Y=.

International

Communications Foundation, Tokyo, Japan, F1999-2002

Fleeting Facial Expressions in Dialog (Principal Investigator) 1,000,000Y=. Okawa

Foundation

for Information and Telecommunications, Japan, F1999-2000

Paralinguistic Information as a New Interface Modality for Information Delivery Systems

(Prin-

cipal Investigator) 2,500,000Y=. Fundamental Research Grant, Ministry of Education,

Japan,

F1999-2000

The Acoustic and Meaning Components of Grunts (Principal Investigator) 800,000Y=. Inamori

Foundation, Kyoto, Japan, F1998-1999.

A System to Assist Rote Learning (Principal Investigator) 3,000,000Y=. Hayao Nakayama

Foun-

dation, Tokyo, Japan, F1997.

A Basic Study of Grunts in Communication (Principal Investigator) 1,000,000Y=. Sound Tech-

nology Promotion Foundation, Tokyo, Japan, F1996.

Training Fingers for Machinery Operation using Real Time Responsive Spoken Instruction

(Prin-

cipal Investigator), 1,100,000Y=. Young Researcher Development Grant, Ministry of

Education,

Japan, F1996.

Learning Control for the Integration of Multiple Knowledge Sources and Semantic Feedback

for Speech Understanding (Principal Investigator), 1,400,000Y=, Priority Research Area

Grant,

Ministry of Education, Japan, F1995.

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Exploiting Speech Understanding in Intelligent Interfaces (in cooperation with the

International

Computer Science Institute) (Principal Investigator), 4,200,000Y=, International

Cooperation

Grant, Ministry of Education, Japan, F1994-1995.

A Speech Dialog System Incorporating a Parallel Evidential Inferential Understanding

Compo-

nent (Principal Investigator), 1,900,000Y=, Priority Research Area Grant, Ministry of

Education,

Japan, F1994.

Semantic Feedback for Speech Understanding in Man-Machine Interfaces (Principal Investiga-

tor), 900,000Y=, Young Researcher Development Grant, Ministry of Education, Japan, F1994.

Parallel Syntactic Hypotheses for Speech Understanding (Principal Investigator),

500,000Y=, Ar-

tificial Intelligence Promotion Foundation, Nagoya, Japan, F1993.

Travel Grant, 150,000Y=, Hara Research Foundation, Osaka, Japan, 1992.

As Co-PI:

Effectiveness of Visualization to Improve Public Participation in Transportation Planning, PI

Ruey L. Cheu. Federal Highway Administration, 2008-2009. $82,961,

Active Listening and Trust Across Cultures, PI David Novick, Department of Defense, 2007

2009, $181,264.

Friendly Artifact: Research on a Machine for Observing, Understanding, and Responding to

Human Behavior, PI N. Nakajima, 1996-1999, 55,000,000Y=

REFEREED PRESENTATIONS (without papers)

Studies in the Use of Time Into Utterance as a Predictive Feature for Language

Modeling. Alejandro Vega, Nigel G. Ward. Technical Report UTEP-CS-10-22.

Looking for Entropy Rate Constancy in Spoken Dialog. Alejandro Vega, Nigel G. Ward.

Technical Report UTEP-CS-09-19.

Additional Information about American and Arab Perceptions of an Arabic Turn- .

Taking Cue. Nigel Ward and Yaffa Al Bayyari. University of Texas at El Paso Technical

Report UTEP-CS-08-34

Testing the Value of a Time-based Language Model for Speech Recognition. Nisha

Kiran and Nigel G. Ward. University of Texas at El Paso Technical Report UTEP-CS-08-29.

Reasons why Mobile Telephone Conversations may be Annoying: Considerations

and Pilot Studies. Nigel G. Ward, Anais G. Rivera and Alejandro Vega. University of Texas

at El Paso Technical Report UTEP-CS-07-60, 2007.

Three Prosodic Features that Cue Back-Channel Feedback in Northern Mexican

Spanish. Anais G. Rivera and Nigel G. Ward. University of Texas at El Paso Technical

Report

UTEP-CS-07-12, 2007.

Detecting Filled Pauses in Tutorial Dialogs. Gaurav Garg and Nigel G. Ward. University

of Texas at El Paso Technical Report UTEP-CS-06-32, 2006.

Automatic Labeling of Back Channels. Udit Sajjanhar and Nigel G. Ward. University of

Texas at El Paso Technical Report UTEP-CS-06-26, 2006.

The UTEP Corpus of Iraqi Arabic. Nigel Ward, David Novick, and Salamah I. Salamah.

University of Texas at El Paso Technical Report UTEP-CS-06-02, 2006.

Some Usability Issues and Research Priorities in Spoken Dialog Applications. Nigel

Ward, Anais Rivera, Karen Ward, and David Novick. University of Texas at El Paso

Technical

Report UTEP-CS-05-23, 2005.

A Model of Computer Science Graduate Admissions Decisions. University of Texas at

El Paso Technical Report UTEP-CS-04-30, 2004.

Non-Lexical Conversational Sounds in American English. University of Texas at El

Paso Technical Report UTEP-CS-04-22, 2004.

A Flexible, Parallel Model of Natural Language Generation. University of California

at Berkeley Technical Report UCB/CSD 91/629.

NON-REFEREED WORKSHOP PAPERS

OTHER PRESENTATIONS

COLLOQUIUM AND SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS

A Tool for Taking Lecture Notes. Wayne State University, Library and Information Science

Program, March 2002.

Sub-second Usability: Five Systems Supporting Human Communication. University

of Texas at El Paso, February 2002.

Building Responsive Systems: Successes and Failures. University of Texas at El Paso,

February 2002.

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Towards a Model of When to Say Uh-huh, Uh-hn, Mm, etc. University of California

Santa Cruz, Cognitive Psychology Lecture Series, October 1998.

Back-channel Feedback and Spoken Dialog Systems. University of Tokyo Saturday Talks

on Cognitive Themes, October 1996.

Sense, Nonsense, and Computer Conversation. Keio University Philosophy Department

Lecture Series, Tokyo, July 1996.

On the Role of Syntax in Speech Understanding. Information and Cognition Sem-

inar Series. Waseda University, Tokyo, December 1993.

Towards Natural Machine Translation. NTT, Yokosuka, Japan, May 1989.

Towards Natural Machine Translation. ATR, Kyoto, April 1989.

SYSTEM DEMONSTRATIONS

A Wearable Translation Device. Multimedia Education Specific Research Project Meeting.

Tokyo, Japan. October 2000.

In Japanese a Low Pitch Region Means Back-channel Feedback Please . 2nd Meet-

ing of the Information Integration Working Group of the Japan Society for Artificial

Intelligence.

Tsukuba, Japan, November 1996.

Using Prosodic Clues to Decide When to Produce Back-channel Utterances. Spoken

Dialog Priority Research Project Meeting, Tokyo, February 1996.

Lessons to Learn from the Artificial Intelligence Approaches to Speech Understand-

ing of the 1970s. Spoken Dialog Priority Research Project Meeting, Yufuin, October 1995.

Second Thoughts re Speech Understanding. Spoken Dialog Priority Research Project

Meeting, Kyoto, June 1995.

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Corpora for Spoken Language Research. panelist. Spoken Dialog Priority Research

Project Meeting, Atami, December 1994.

The Spoken Language Understanding Mini-challenge. Spoken Dialog Priority Research

Project Meeting, Atami, December 1994.

Future Directions for NLP. panelist. International Workshop on Future Generations of

Natural Language Processing, Kyoto, July 1991.

Towards Natural Machine Translation. Fujitsu KSA Forum, Iizuka, Japan, May 1989.

OTHER TALKS

Figuring out Graduate School Admissions. UTEP ACM Student Chapter, October 2004.

Towards Natural Machine Translation. Toshiba, Kawasaki, June 1989.

Towards Natural Machine Translation. AIUEO, Tokyo, March 1989.

TEACHING

COURSES TAUGHT (some team-taught)

Spoken Dialog Systems. UTEP graduate course, 2006, 2008, 2010.

Search Engine Technologies. UTEP graduate course, 2007, 2009

Statistical Natural Language Processing. UTEP graduate course, 2003.

Advanced Object-Oriented Programming, UTEP, 2011.

Human-Computer Interaction. UTEP 2002 2010.

Compilers and Interpreters. UTEP 2003 2005.

Junior Professional Orientation. UTEP 2005.

Introduction to Computer Science. UTEP 2003.

Agent Systems. UT graduate course. 2001.

Natural Language Processing. UT graduate course. 1992 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999.

Topics in Cognitive Science. UT graduate course. 1993, 1995.

Software Laboratory. UT (new course). 1997, 1999, 2000.

Artificial Intelligence Programming and Software Engineering. UT, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000,

2001.

Engineering-Software Literacy. UT (new course). 2000 (coordinator)

Theory of Computation. UT, 1992 1997, 1999, 2000.

Programming Tools and Operating Systems Concepts. UT. 1998.

LISP and Applications. UT, 1992 1995.

Hands-on Junior Seminar. UT ( Functionality and Content for a Multimodal Agent 2000;

Build a Chatterbot for the Mech Home Page 1999; Build a Web Service 1996; Build a

User Interface with Back-channels 1995; Build a Minimal Real-time Software Agent 1994;

Build a Game Playing Program 1992, 1993)

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Artificial Intelligence (as TA). UC Berkeley, 1986.

Compilers (as TA). UC Berkeley, 1985.

TUTORIALS, SHORT COURSES

Introduction to Connectionism. three lectures, University of Science and Technology of

China,

Hefei, October 1992.

Machine Translation Tutorial, Conference on Computer Processing of Chinese and Oriental

Languages, Toronto, August 1988.

Introduction to LISP. one week intensive course at AT&T Bell Laboratories, as a

Consultant for

Franz Inc. 1987, 1988.

GUEST LECTURES

Usability Evaluation. in Graduate Ergonomics. 2004 2007.

Research Methods in Human-Computer Interaction. in Graduate Research Methods. 2008.

Interface Issues in Computer Graphics. in Graduate Computer Graphics. 2004.

Prototyping. in Software Engineering I. 2003.

Scripting Multimedia Interactions. Mechano-Informatics Laboratory. 2001.

Intelligent Agent Technologies. Information Systems Engineering II. UT. 1999, 2000.

Conversation Engineering. Men and Machines survey course. UT. 1997, 1998.

Designing Usable Software. three sessions. Design Laboratory III. UT. 1995, 1996.

Signal Processing for Speech. Signal and Image Processing Course. UT. 1995 1997, 1999.

Connectionist Natural Language Processing, Hara Foundation Advanced Technology Lecture

Series, Tokyo, February 1993.

Connectionism. two lectures. Information Systems Engineering Course, UT. 1992.

SERVICE

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

GRANT REVIEWING

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National Science Foundation: Robust Intelligence, panelist 2009; Advanced Learning

Technolo-

gies, panelist, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008; Human Language and Communication, panelist, 2004;

Science of Learning Centers, site visitor, 2004; Information Technology Research,

panelist, 2000;

Information, Robotics and Intelligent Systems, reviewer, 1993.

Medical Infrastructure Program, US Army, tasked to the American Institute of Biological

Sci-

ences, reviewer, 2011

Social Signal Processing Net (EU Project), workpackage reviewer, 2010

Economic and Social Research Council (UK), reviewer, 2006

CONFERENCE REVIEWING

CHI (ACM Computer Human Interaction) Conference, 2002 2011

Interspeech (ICSLP, Eurospeech), 2005 2011 (Scientific Review Committee)

IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2010

Intelligent User Interfaces, 2009, 2010, 2011

ACM Multimedia 2010 Workshop on Affective Interaction in Natural Environments

NAACL HLT (North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics -

Human Language Technologies Conference) 2009

EACL (European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics), 2009.

MobileHCI 2008

Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2006, 2007

International Congress of Phonetic Science, 2007, 2011

Frontiers in Education, 2006 2010

Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, 2006

International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, 2005

International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 2004

Association for Computational Linguistics, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2003

Coling 2002, 2010

Cognitive Science Conference, 1994, 1998

PROGRAM COMMITTEES

ACL SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, 2001, 2008, 2011

Semdial 2011 (Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue)

Speech Prosody 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010 (Scientific Committee)

International Natural Language Generation Conference, 2002, 2004

Virtual Conversational Characters Workshop, at the Australasian User Interface

Conference,

2003

International Workshop on Lifelike Animated Agents: Tools, Affective Functions and

Applica-

tions, at PRICAI, 2002

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Computational Psycholinguistics Conference, 1997

JOURNAL REVIEWING

CONSULTING

Summer Speech Workshop.

OTHER

Registration Chair, ACM Design- of Communication (SigDOC) Workshop, 2007

Discussant, Dialogue Systems Session at the SLaTE Workshop on Speech and Language Tech-

nology in Education, 2007.

DEPARTMENT AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE

CS New Building Move Coordinator, 2012

Faculty Senate Information Technology Committee, Chair 2008

CS Facilities Committee, Chair 2004

Department Webmaster 1997 2000, 2003

CS Graduate Program Committee Member 2008

University Information Technology Strategic Financial and Operational Planning Group Mem-

ber, 2010

College of Engineering, Faculty Council Constitution Task Force, 2007 2008

CS Graduate Program Chair / Graduate Advisor 2003 2005

Faculty Senator 2002 2003

SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS

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ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

and its SigCHI (Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group)

ISCA (International Speech Communication Association)

and its SProSig (Speech Prosody Special Interest Group)

and its SigDial (Special Interest Group on Dialog and Discourse)

ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics)

IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan)

and its SIG-SLP (Spoken Language Processing Special Interest Group)

JSAI (Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence)

and its SIG-SLUD (Spoken Language Understanding and Dialog Special Interest Group)

LANGUAGES

English (native), Japanese, some French

CITIZENSHIP

USA

June 14, 2011

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