Verena Rieser

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

Syntactics Engineering & Materials Science

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Research Output 2005 2019

Benchmarking Natural Language Understanding Services for building Conversational Agents

Liu, X., Eshghi, A., Swietojanski, P. & Rieser, V., 24 Apr 2019.

Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper

Open Access

Evaluating the State-of-the-Art of End-to-End Natural Language Generation: The E2E NLG Challenge

Dušek, O., Novikova, J. & Rieser, V., 3 Jul 2019, In : Computer Speech and Language.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

File

Syntactics

Decoding

Learning systems

Semantics

A Knowledge-Grounded Multimodal Search-Based Conversational Agent

Agarwal, S., Dusek, O., Konstas, I. & Rieser, V., 31 Oct 2018, Proceedings of the 2018 EMNLP Workshop SCAI: The 2nd International Workshop on Search-Oriented Conversational AI. Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 59-66 8 p.

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

Open Access

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

Better conversations by modeling, filtering, and optimizing for coherence and diversity

Xinnuo, X., Dusek, O., Konstas, I. & Rieser, V., 31 Oct 2018, Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 3981–3991 11 p.

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

Open Access

Experiments