Research output per year
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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Research output
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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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Evaluating the State-of-the-Art of End-to-End Natural Language Generation: The E2E NLG Challenge
Dušek, O., Novikova, J. & Rieser, V., Jan 2020, In: Computer Speech and Language. 59, p. 123-156 34 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A Crowd-based Evaluation of Abuse Response Strategies in Conversational Agents
Cercas Curry, A. & Rieser, V., 2019, Proceedings of the 20th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue. Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 361–366Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Automatic Quality Estimation for Natural Language Generation: Ranting (Jointly Rating and Ranking)
Dušek, O., Sevegnani, K., Konstas, I. & Rieser, V., 2019, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation. p. 369–376Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Let's Chat! Can Virtual Agents learn how to have a Conversation?
Rieser, V., 2019, Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents. Association for Computing Machinery, p. 5-6Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
Datasets
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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
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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
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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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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NLU benchmark
Rieser, V. (Creator) & Liu, X. (Creator), Heriot-Watt University, Feb 2019
https://github.com/xliuhw/NLU-Evaluation-Data/
Dataset
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, Katrin Solveig (Recipient), Sandra McAthur (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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European Language Resources Association (Publisher)
Verena Rieser (Peer reviewer)
2016 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication peer-review
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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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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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Advanced Robotics (Journal)
Verena Rieser (Editorial board member)
2016 → 2017Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial activity
Press / Media
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Native scientist 2015
Katrin Solveig Lohan & Verena Rieser
14/02/15
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research