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Verena Rieser

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Bachelors Computer Science University of Stuttgart

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According to Wikipedia, Verena Rieser is a German computer scientist specialising in natural-language generation, including conversational modelling as well as studies of how gender cues in synthetic language can trigger biases in the people who interact with them. She is a professor in the School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, where she directs the Natural Language Processing Laboratory.

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Why We Need New Evaluation Metrics for NLG (2017) (335)
The E2E Dataset: New Challenges For End-to-End Generation (2017) (301)
Evaluating the State-of-the-Art of End-to-End Natural Language Generation: The E2E NLG Challenge (2019) (173)
BLOOM: A 176B-Parameter Open-Access Multilingual Language Model (2022) (172)
Benchmarking Natural Language Understanding Services for building Conversational Agents (2019) (160)
An Arabic Twitter Corpus for Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis (2014) (156)
Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Dialogue Systems - A Data-driven Methodology for Dialogue Management and Natural Language Generation (2011) (115)
Learning Effective Multimodal Dialogue Strategies from Wizard-of-Oz Data: Bootstrapping and Evaluation (2008) (100)
Natural Language Generation as Planning Under Uncertainty for Spoken Dialogue Systems (2009) (99)
Findings of the E2E NLG Challenge (2018) (97)
Twenty Years of Confusion in Human Evaluation: NLG Needs Evaluation Sheets and Standardised Definitions (2020) (90)
Semantic Noise Matters for Neural Natural Language Generation (2019) (77)
RankME: Reliable Human Ratings for Natural Language Generation (2018) (73)
Agent-based modelling of land use dynamics and residential quality of life for future scenarios (2013) (69)
Crowd-sourcing NLG Data: Pictures Elicit Better Data. (2016) (61)
#MeToo Alexa: How Conversational Systems Respond to Sexual Harassment (2018) (60)
SLURP: A Spoken Language Understanding Resource Package (2020) (60)
Cluster-based user simulations for learning dialogue strategies (2006) (58)
Implications for Generating Clarification Requests in Task-Oriented Dialogues (2005) (56)
Anticipating Safety Issues in E2E Conversational AI: Framework and Tooling (2021) (56)
Modelling the impacts of land system dynamics on human well-being: Using an agent-based approach to cope with data limitations in Koper, Slovenia (2012) (54)
Better Conversations by Modeling, Filtering, and Optimizing for Coherence and Diversity (2018) (52)
A Corpus Collection and Annotation Framework for Learning Multimodal Clarification Strategies (2005) (49)
Learning and Evaluation of Dialogue Strategies for New Applications: Empirical Methods for Optimization from Small Data Sets (2011) (48)
History for Visual Dialog: Do we really need it? (2020) (48)
Optimising Information Presentation for Spoken Dialogue Systems (2010) (47)
Natural Language Generation enhances human decision-making with uncertain information (2016) (46)
A review of spatial reasoning and interaction for real-world robotics (2017) (43)
Alana: Social Dialogue using an Ensemble Model and a Ranker trained on User Feedback (2017) (39)
Alana v2: Entertaining and Informative Open-domain Social Dialogue using Ontologies and Entity Linking (2018) (38)
Natural Language Generation as Incremental Planning Under Uncertainty: Adaptive Information Presentation for Statistical Dialogue Systems (2014) (37)
Using Machine Learning to Explore Human Multimodal Clarification Strategies (2006) (36)
Cluster-based Prediction of User Ratings for Stylistic Surface Realisation (2014) (34)
Optimising Incremental Dialogue Decisions Using Information Density for Interactive Systems (2012) (34)
Bootstrapping reinforcement learning-based dialogue strategies from wizard-of-oz data (2008) (34)
Demonstration of the PARLANCE system: a data-driven incremental, spoken dialogue system for interactive search (2013) (29)
Modelling Strategic Conversation: model, annotation design and corpus (2012) (29)
Referenceless Quality Estimation for Natural Language Generation (2017) (28)
iLab-Edinburgh at SemEval-2016 Task 7: A Hybrid Approach for Determining Sentiment Intensity of Arabic Twitter Phrases (2016) (27)
Learning human multimodal dialogue strategies (2009) (27)
Does this list contain what you were searching for? Learning adaptive dialogue strategies for interactive question answering (2009) (27)
Developing a corpus of strategic conversation in The Settlers of Catan (2012) (24)
Benchmarking Machine Translated Sentiment Analysis for Arabic Tweets (2015) (24)
Automatic Learning and Evaluation of User-Centered Objective Functions for Dialogue System Optimisation (2008) (23)
An Experiment Setup for Collecting Data for Adaptive Output Planning in a Multimodal Dialogue System (2005) (23)
A Crowd-based Evaluation of Abuse Response Strategies in Conversational Agents (2019) (22)
Optimising Incremental Generation for Spoken Dialogue Systems: Reducing the Need for Fillers (2012) (21)
Predicting how it sounds: re-ranking dialogue prompts based on TTS quality for adaptive spoken dialogue systems (2009) (20)
Data-to-Text Generation Improves Decision-Making Under Uncertainty (2017) (20)
A Knowledge-Grounded Multimodal Search-Based Conversational Agent (2018) (20)
ConvAbuse: Data, Analysis, and Benchmarks for Nuanced Abuse Detection in Conversational AI (2021) (20)
Evaluating Distant Supervision for Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis on Arabic Twitter Feeds (2014) (19)
Conversational Assistants and Gender Stereotypes: Public Perceptions and Desiderata for Voice Personas (2020) (18)
Alexa, Google, Siri: What are Your Pronouns? Gender and Anthropomorphism in the Design and Perception of Conversational Assistants (2021) (18)
From the Virtual to the RealWorld: Referring to Objects in Real-World Spatial Scenes (2015) (18)
Adaptive Information Presentation for Spoken Dialogue Systems : Evaluation with human subjects (2011) (17)
A Wizard-of-Oz interface to study information presentation strategies for spoken dialogue systems (2009) (16)
Adaptive Information Presentation for Spoken Dialogue Systems: Evaluation with real users (2011) (15)
OTTers: One-turn Topic Transitions for Open-Domain Dialogue (2021) (15)
Improving Context Modelling in Multimodal Dialogue Generation (2018) (15)
The SAMMIE Corpus of Multimodal Dialogues with an MP3 Player (2006) (14)
SafetyKit: First Aid for Measuring Safety in Open-domain Conversational Systems (2022) (14)
Information density and overlap in spoken dialogue (2016) (13)
An Ensemble Model with Ranking for Social Dialogue (2017) (13)
A review of evaluation techniques for social dialogue systems (2017) (12)
Modelling Strategic Conversation: the STAC project (2012) (12)
Fact-based Content Weighting for Evaluating Abstractive Summarisation (2020) (12)
Effects of Belief and Memory on Strategic Negotiation (2013) (12)
Learning dialogue strategies for interactive database search (2007) (12)
Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Dialogue Systems - ReadingSample (2017) (11)
USING LOGISTIC REGRESSION TO INITIALISE REINFORCEMENT-LEARNING-BASED DIALOGUE SYSTEMS (2006) (10)
A comparison of genetic algorithms and reinforcement learning for optimising sustainable forest management (2011) (10)
Towards Learning Transferable Conversational Skills using Multi-dimensional Dialogue Modelling (2018) (9)
AggGen: Ordering and Aggregating while Generating (2021) (9)
Genetic algorithm evaluation of green search allocation policies in multilevel complex urban scenarios (2015) (9)
Generation Under Uncertainty (2010) (8)
Evolving Urbanisation Policies - Using a Statistical Model to Accelerate Optimisation over Agent-based Simulations (2013) (8)
The aNALoGuE Challenge: Non Aligned Language GEneration (2016) (8)
The SAMMIE Multimodal Dialogue Corpus Meets the Nite XML Toolkit (2006) (7)
Report from the NSF Future Directions Workshop on Automatic Evaluation of Dialog: Research Directions and Challenges (2022) (7)
Generating and Evaluating Landmark-Based Navigation Instructions in Virtual Environments (2015) (7)
Developing Dialogue Managers from Limited Amounts of Data (2012) (6)
The PARLANCE mobile application for interactive search in English and Mandarin (2014) (6)
Generating Verbal Descriptions from Medical Sensor Data: A Corpus Study on User Preferences (2014) (6)
Detecting Deception in Non-Cooperative Dialogue: A Smarter Adversary Cannot be Fooled That Easily (2014) (5)
A Game-Based Setup for Data Collection and Task-Based Evaluation of Uncertain Information Presentation (2015) (5)
What happens if you treat ordinal ratings as interval data? Human evaluations in NLP are even more under-powered than you think (2021) (5)
How to talk to strangers: Generating medical reports for first-time users (2016) (5)
Automatic Quality Estimation for Natural Language Generation: Ranting (Jointly Rating and Ranking) (2019) (5)
Confidence-Based Fragmentary Clarifications on Several Levels for Robust Dialogue Systems (2004) (5)
A Framework for Learning Multimodal Clarification Strategies (2005) (5)
Adaptive Natural Language Generation (2011) (5)
Guiding the Release of Safer E2E Conversational AI through Value Sensitive Design (2022) (4)
Strategies for Flexible Multimodal Interaction with a Music Player (2005) (3)
Evolving Optimal Spatial Allocation Policies for Complex and Uncertain Environments (2013) (3)
Comparing Reinforcement and Supervised Learning of Dialogue Policies with Real Users (2011) (3)
Agent-based Modelling for Green Space Allocation in Urban Areas - Factors Influencing Agent Behaviour (2015) (3)
User Evaluation of a Multi-dimensional Statistical Dialogue System (2019) (3)
Agent-based Modelling for Green Space Allocation in Urban Areas (2015) (3)
MiRANews: Dataset and Benchmarks for Multi-Resource-Assisted News Summarization (2021) (3)
Towards optimising modality allocation for multimodal output generation in incremental dialogue (2012) (3)
Risk-graded Safety for Handling Medical Queries in Conversational AI (2022) (3)
Reinforcement learning approaches to natural language generation in interactive systems (2014) (2)
Optimising Incremental Generation for Information Presentation of Mobile Search Results (2012) (2)
Simulation-based Learning of Optimal Multimodal Presentation Strategies from Wizard-of-Oz data (2008) (2)
Referring Expressions in Discourse about Haptic Line Graphs (2014) (2)
SemEval-2023 Task 11: Learning With Disagreements (LeWiDi) (2023) (2)
D4.2: Optimal Wizard NLG Behaviours in Context (2009) (2)
Natural Language Generation as Planning under Uncertainty Using Reinforcement Learning (2016) (2)
Statistical Approaches to Adaptive Natural Language Generation (2012) (2)
Generation for Things Unknown : Accounting for First-Time Users and Hidden Scenes (2015) (2)
Going for GOAL: A Resource for Grounded Football Commentaries (2022) (1)
Final Report on Multimodal Experiments - Part II: Experiments for data collection and technology evaluation (2006) (1)
D6.1.1: Domain-limited TTS corpus for expressive speech synthesis and Wizard-of-Oz Data for NLG Strategies (2009) (1)
How to Talk to Strangers: Minimising Regret when Generating Medical Reports for Unknown Users (2016) (1)
D3.1: Shared Context Model (XML Schema) (2009) (1)
Data Collection in a Wizard-of-Oz Experiment (2011) (1)
Let's Chat! Can Virtual Agents learn how to have a Conversation? (2019) (1)
The MaDrIgAL project: Multi-Dimensional Interaction Management and Adaptive Learning (2016) (1)
Data-driven Natural Language Generation: Paving the Road to Success (2017) (1)
Towards Generating Route Instructions Under Uncertainty: A Corpus Study (2014) (1)
Getting to Know Users: Accounting for the Variability in User Ratings (2014) (1)
Task Formulation Matters When Learning Continually: A Case Study in Visual Question Answering (2022) (0)
Demonstrating EMMA: Embodied MultiModal Agent for Language-guided Action Execution in 3D Simulated Environments (2022) (0)
The REAL Corpus: A Crowd-Sourced Corpus of Human Generated and Evaluated Spatial References to Real-World Urban Scenes (2016) (0)
Proof-of-Concept: Information Seeking Strategies (2011) (0)
Consistency is Key: Disentangling Label Variation in Natural Language Processing with Intra-Annotator Agreement (2023) (0)
”I Like You, as a Friend”: Voice Assistants’ Response Strategies to Sexual Harassment and Their Relation to Gender (2020) (0)
Special issue on spatial reasoning and interaction for real-world robotics (2017) (0)
PARAMETER-EFFICIENT TRANSFER LEARNING (2022) (0)
Quality-agnostic Image Captioning to Safely Assist People with Vision Impairment (2023) (0)
PDRT-SANDBOX: An implementation of Projective Discourse Representation Theory (2014) (0)
The Bootstrapping Approach to Developing Reinforcement Learning-based Strategies (2011) (0)
Spatial-temporal optimisation for adaptive sustainable forest management (2011) (0)
Missing Information, Unresponsive Authors, Experimental Flaws: The Impossibility of Assessing the Reproducibility of Previous Human Evaluations in NLP (2023) (0)
D3.3: Simulated users for training NLG (TownInfo/Self-Help) (2010) (0)
Why Robust Natural Language Understanding is a Challenge (2022) (0)
D6. 2: Annotators Handbook (2006) (0)
D5.1.2: Final Communication Architecture and Module Interface Definitions (2010) (0)
Strategic Conversation : the STAC project (2012) (0)
Building Simulation Environments from Wizard-of-Oz Data (2011) (0)
Proceedings of SemDial 2012 (SeineDial) (2012) (0)
A Probabilistic Generative Model for an Intermediate Constituency-dependency Representation How Spoken Language Corpora Can Refine Current Speech Motor Training Methodologies Growing Related Words from Seed via User Behaviors: a Re-ranking Based Approach a Framework for Figurative Language Detection (2010) (0)
Two alternative frameworks for deploying spoken dialogue systems to mobile platforms for evaluation “in the wild” (2014) (0)
The REAL corpus (2016) (0)
Cluster-based User Simulations for L (2006) (0)
Reviewers for Volume 44 (2013) (0)
Adversarial Robustness of Visual Dialog (2022) (0)
SpeechCity: A Conversational City Guide based on Open Data (2014) (0)

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