Research Output per year
Personal profile
Research interests
I have a well-established international research profile (H-Index 22, over 1.4k citations, 10 years since PhD) at the intersection of Language Technology and Machine Learning, for interdisciplinary applications including Decision Support, Human-Robot Interaction, Spoken Dialogue Systems, and Natural Language Generation, where I pioneered the use of Reinforcement Learning in multimodal conversational interfaces. I currently lead a research group of 7 full-term researchers (4 RAs, 3 PhDs). I have a total of >£3M grant income with 3 national research projects funded over the past 2 years. My current activities include serving as ACL area chair (2017, 2018) and as faculty advisor for the Amazon Alexa challenge (2017, 2018).
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Reinforcement learning
Engineering & Materials Science
Learning systems
Engineering & Materials Science
Urban growth
Engineering & Materials Science
Feedback
Engineering & Materials Science
Planning
Engineering & Materials Science
Decision making
Engineering & Materials Science
Supervised learning
Engineering & Materials Science
Barges
Engineering & Materials Science
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Research Output 2005 2018
Alana v2: Entertaining and Informative Open-domain Social Dialogue using Ontologies and Entity Linking
Cercas Curry, A., Papaioannou, I., Suglia, A., Agarwal, S., Shalyminov, I., Xinnuo, X., Dusek, O., Eshghi, A., Konstas, I., Rieser, V. & Lemon, O., 2018, 1st Proceedings of Alexa Prize (Alexa Prize 2018). 19 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
Open Access
Alana: Social Dialogue using an Ensemble Model and a Ranker trained on User Feedback
Papaioannou, I., Cercas Curry, A., Part, J., Shalyminov, I., Xinnuo, X., Yu, Y., Dusek, O., Rieser, V. & Lemon, O., 2017, 2017 Alexa Prize Proceedings.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
Open Access
Feedback
Learning systems
Boring
Experiments
An Ensemble Model with Ranking for Social Dialogue
Papaioannou, I., Cercas Curry, A., Part, J., Shalyminov, I., Xinnuo, X., Yu, Y., Dusek, O., Rieser, V. & Lemon, O., 2017.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
Open Access
Learning systems
Feedback
Artificial intelligence
A Review of Evaluation Techniques for Social Dialogue Systems
Cercas Curry, A., Hastie, H. & Rieser, V., 28 Aug 2017, (Accepted/In press) Investigating Social Interactions with Artificial Agents: ICMI 2017 satellite workshop.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
A review of spatial reasoning and interaction for real-world robotics
Landsiedel, C., Rieser, V., Walter, M. & Wollherr, D., 19 Jan 2017, In : Advanced Robotics. p. 1-21 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Navigation
Robotics
Robots
Human robot interaction
Semantics
Datasets
The E2E Challenge Dataset
Novikova, J. (Creator), Dusek, O. (Creator), Rieser, V. (Creator), Heriot-Watt University, Nov 2017
DOI: 10.17861/c07fe36b-d0fa-4bbe-967c-f8b4341a133f, http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/InteractionLab/E2E/
Dataset
Human Ratings of Natural Language Generation Outputs
Novikova, J. (Creator), Dusek, O. (Creator), Cercas Curry, A. (Creator), Rieser, V. (Creator), Heriot-Watt University, 2017
https://github.com/jeknov/EMNLP_17_submission
Dataset
Arabic Gold Standard Twitter Data for Sentiment Analysis
Refaee, E. (Creator), Rieser, V. (Creator), European Language Resources Association, 2014
DOI: 10.17861/0e0a6b6b-4892-4c6e-b640-b204e1190cea
Dataset
Generating Medical Reports
Rieser, V. (Creator), Gkatzia, D. (Creator), Heriot-Watt University, 2016
DOI: 10.17861/447949d0-c965-4014-ba44-76c1321d547d, https://github.com/dimi123/FUZZ-IEEE
Dataset
Automatically annotated sentiment corpora
Rieser, V. (Creator), Refaee, E. (Creator), Heriot-Watt University, 2016
http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~eaar1/Eshrag%20Refaee/myResearch1.html
Dataset
Prizes
Amazon Alexa Challenge
Verena Rieser (Recipient) & Oliver Lemon (Recipient), 2016
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Saarland
Royal Society of Edinburgh Young Academy
Verena Rieser (Recipient), 2013
Prize: Election to learned society
Telling tails of Public engagement
Katrin Solveig Lohan (Recipient), Sandra McAthur (Recipient), Keith Edgar Brown (Recipient) & Verena Rieser (Recipient), 9 Mar 2018
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities 2013 2017
55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Event)
Verena Rieser (Editorial board member)2017
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial activity
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems (Journal)
Verena Rieser (Guest editor)2016 → …
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial activity
Association for Computational Linguistics (Publisher)
Verena Rieser (Peer reviewer)2016 → …
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication peer-review
9th International Natural Language Generation Conference (Event)
Verena Rieser (Editorial board member), Amy Isard (Editorial board member), Dimitra Gkatzia (Editorial board member)2016 → …
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial activity
European Language Resources Association (Publisher)
Verena Rieser (Peer reviewer)2016 → …
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication peer-review
Press / Media
Native scientist 2015
Katrin Solveig Lohan & Verena Rieser
14/02/15
1 media contribution
Press/Media: Research