'Practical issues in text scaling models: Estimating legislator ideal points in multi-party systems using speeches' with Ken Benoit (Paper presented at MPSA 2010)
'How to get a sense of proportion' (Paper presented at MPSA 2009)
'A new database on pro-government armed groups' with Neil Mitchell and Sabine Carey (Paper presented at ISA 2009)
'Yoshikoder: An open source multilingual content analysis tool for social scientists' MS
W. Lowe, K. Benoit, S. Mikhaylov, and M. Laver (to appear) Scaling policy positions from coded units of political texts. Legislative Studies Quarterly.
J. Sullivan and W. Lowe (to appear) Chen Shui-bian: On independence. China Quarterly 203.
W. Lowe (2008) Understanding Wordscores Political Analysis 16(4): 356-371.
E. Jenne, S. Saideman, W. Lowe (2007) Secessionism as a bargaining posture Journal of Peace Research 44(5): 537-556.
W. Lowe (2004) Content analysis and its place in the (methodological) scheme of things Qualitative Methods 2(1): 25-27.
G. King and W. Lowe (2003) An automated information extraction tool for international conflict data with performance as good as human coders: A rare events evaluation design' International Organization 57: 617-642.
J. Bryson and W. Lowe (1997) 'Commentary on D. Ballard, M. M. Hayhoe, P. K. Pook and R. P. N. Rao, Deictic codes for the embodiment of cognition' Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
J. Bullinaria and W. Lowe, editors (2002) Connectionist Models of Cognition and Perception, World Scientific
W. Lowe (2010) 'Identifying your accompanist' close Engagements with Artificial Companions, Y. Wilks (Ed.), Benjamins. pp.95-99
W. Lowe (2006) 'New methods for conflict data' in Programming for Peace: Computer-Aided Methods for International Conflict Resolution and Prevention R. Trappl (Ed.) Springer pp.321-334
W. Lowe (2003) 'Uncertainty' and 'Sentence completion test' in M. S. Lewis-Beck, A. Bryman and T. F. Liao (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Research Methods in the Social Sciences, Sage.
W. Lowe (2003) 'Rare Events Research' Encyclopedia of Social Measurement, Elsevier.
W. Lowe, O. Bekou, and E. Hunter (2008) 'Markup and metadata in international criminal law' eSocial Science Conference, Manchester.
J. Dowdall, W. Lowe, J. Ellman, F. Rinaldi and M. Hess (2004) 'The role of multiword terminology in knowledge management' Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation.
W. Lowe and G. King (2003) 'Some statistical methods for evaluating information extraction systems' Proceedings of the Tenth Conference of the European Association for Computational Linguistics pp.19-26.
W. Lowe (2001) 'Towards a theory of semantic space' in J. D. Moore and K. Stenning (Eds.) Proceedings of the Twenty-first Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society LEA pp.576-581
J. Bryson, W. Lowe and L. A. Stein (2000) 'Hypothesis testing for complex agents' in A. M. Meystel and E. R. Messina (Eds.) Proceedings of NIST Workshop on Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication 970. pp.233-240.
W. Lowe (2000) 'What is the dimensionality of human semantic space?' in R. M. French and J. P. Sougné (Eds.) Proceedings of the 6th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop Springer pp.303-311.
W. Lowe and S. McDonald (2000) 'The direct route: Mediated priming in semantic space' in L. R. Gleitman and J. K. Joshi (Eds.) Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society LEA pp.806-811.
S. McDonald and W. Lowe (1998) 'Modelling functional priming and the Associative boost' in M. A. Gernsbacher and S. J. Derry (Eds.) Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society LEA pp.675-680
W. Lowe (1997) 'Meaning and the mental lexicon' in M. E. Pollack (Ed.) Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Morgan Kaufmann pp.1092-1097.
W. Lowe (1997) 'Semantic representation and priming in a self-organizing lexicon' in J. A. Bullinaria, G. Houghton and D. W. Glasspool (Eds.) Proceedings of the 4th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop Springer pp.227-239
W. Lowe (2005) 'Understanding Outliers' presented at the ECPR conference, Budapest.
W. Lowe (2003) 'Content Analysis Software: A Review' Technical Report for the Identity Project, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University.
R. C. Shillcock, S. McDonald, P. Hipwell and W. Lowe (1998) 'Distinctiveness of spoken word context predicts lexical decision time' Centre for Cognitive Science Research Paper EUCCS-RP-1998-4
W. Lowe (2001) Topographic Maps of Semantic Space PhD Thesis, Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.