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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).
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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AggGen: Ordering and aggregating while generating
Xu, X., Dušek, O., Rieser, V. & Konstas, I., Aug 2021, Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing. Association for Computational Linguistics, Vol. 1. p. 1419-1434 16 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Alexa, Google, Siri: What are Your Pronouns? Gender and Anthropomorphism in the Design and Perception of Conversational Assistants
Abercrombie, G., Cercas Curry, A., Pandya, M. & Rieser, V., Aug 2021, Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing. Costa-jussa, M. R., Gonen, H., Hardmeier, C. & Webster, K. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 24-33 10 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Benchmarking Natural Language Understanding Services for Building Conversational Agents
Liu, X., Eshghi, A., Swietojanski, P. & Rieser, V., 2021, Increasing Naturalness and Flexibility in Spoken Dialogue Interaction: 10th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems. 1 ed. Springer, p. 165-183 19 p. (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering; vol. 714).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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OTTers: One-turn topic transitions for open-domain dialogue
Sevegnani, K., Howcroft, D. M., Konstas, I. & Rieser, V., Aug 2021, 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference. Association for Computational Linguistics, Vol. 1. p. 2492-2504 13 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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What happens if you treat ordinal ratings as interval data? Human evaluations in NLP are even more under-powered than you think
Howcroft, D. M. & Rieser, V., 2021, 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 8932-8939 8 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
Datasets
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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
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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
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NLU benchmark
Rieser, V. (Creator) & Liu, X. (Creator), Heriot-Watt University, Feb 2019
https://github.com/xliuhw/NLU-Evaluation-Data/
Dataset
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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
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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
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Prizes
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Amazon Alexa Challenge
Rieser, Verena (Recipient) & Lemon, Oliver (Recipient), 2016
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Royal Society of Edinburgh Young Academy
Rieser, Verena (Recipient), 2013
Prize: Election to learned society
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Telling tails of Public engagement
Lohan, K. S. (Recipient), McAthur, S. (Recipient), Brown, Keith Edgar (Recipient) & Rieser, Verena (Recipient), 9 Mar 2018
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
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55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2017 (Event)
Verena Rieser (Editorial board member)
2017Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial activity
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International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems (Journal)
Verena Rieser (Guest editor)
2016 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial activity
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Advanced Robotics (Journal)
Verena Rieser (Editorial board member)
2016 → 2017Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial activity
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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
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Association for Computational Linguistics (Publisher)
Verena Rieser (Peer reviewer)
2016 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication peer-review
Press / Media
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Native scientist 2015
Katrin Solveig Lohan & Verena Rieser
14/02/15
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research