Verena Rieser — Heriot-Watt University

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I have a well-established international research profile (H-Index 20, over 1k citations, 9 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 2017 area chair for NLG and as faculty advisor for the Amazon Alexa challenge.

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Research Output 2005 2017

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

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Robotics

Robots

Human robot interaction

Semantics

Data-driven Natural Language Generation: Paving the Road to Success

Novikova, J., Dusek, O. & Rieser, V. 30 Jul 2017 3 p.

Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper

Open Access

Learning systems

Data-to-Text Generation Improves Decision-Making Under Uncertainty

Gkatzia, D., Lemon, O. & Rieser, V. Aug 2017 In : IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine. 12, 3, p. 10-17 8 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

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Decision making

Uncertainty

Referenceless Quality Estimation for Natural Language Generation

Dusek, O., Novikova, J. & Rieser, V. 10 Aug 2017 Proceedings of the 34 th International Conference on Machine Learning, Sydney, Australia, PMLR 70, 2017. ICML

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Open Access

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Recurrent neural networks