Verena Rieser

Orcid: 0000-0001-6117-4395

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  • Heriot-Watt University, UK


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2024
Beyond Thumbs Up/Down: Untangling Challenges of Fine-Grained Feedback for Text-to-Image Generation.
CoRR, 2024

The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants.
CoRR, 2024

NLP Verification: Towards a General Methodology for Certifying Robustness.
CoRR, 2024

Should Users Trust Advanced AI Assistants? Justified Trust As a Function of Competence and Alignment.
Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, 2024

STAR: SocioTechnical Approach to Red Teaming Language Models.
Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2024

2023
Sociotechnical Safety Evaluation of Generative AI Systems.
CoRR, 2023

FurNav: Development and Preliminary Study of a Robot Direction Giver.
CoRR, 2023

Understanding Counterspeech for Online Harm Mitigation.
CoRR, 2023

Missing Information, Unresponsive Authors, Experimental Flaws: The Impossibility of Assessing the Reproducibility of Previous Human Evaluations in NLP.
CoRR, 2023

Consistency is Key: Disentangling Label Variation in Natural Language Processing with Intra-Annotator Agreement.
CoRR, 2023

FurChat: An Embodied Conversational Agent using LLMs, Combining Open and Closed-Domain Dialogue with Facial Expressions.
Proceedings of the 24th Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2023

iLab at SemEval-2023 Task 11 Le-Wi-Di: Modelling Disagreement or Modelling Perspectives?
Proceedings of the The 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, 2023

SemEval-2023 Task 11: Learning with Disagreements (LeWiDi).
Proceedings of the The 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, 2023

Quality-agnostic Image Captioning to Safely Assist People with Vision Impairment.
Proceedings of the Thirty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2023

Multitask Multimodal Prompted Training for Interactive Embodied Task Completion.
Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2023

Mirages. On Anthropomorphism in Dialogue Systems.
Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2023

ANTONIO: Towards a Systematic Method of Generating NLP Benchmarks for Verification.
Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Formal Methods for ML-Enabled Autonomous Systems, 2023

Adversarial Textual Robustness on Visual Dialog.
Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023, 2023

The Dangers of trusting Stochastic Parrots: Faithfulness and Trust in Open-domain Conversational Question Answering.
Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023, 2023

2022
Going for GOAL: A Resource for Grounded Football Commentaries.
CoRR, 2022

Task Formulation Matters When Learning Continually: A Case Study in Visual Question Answering.
CoRR, 2022

Adversarial Robustness of Visual Dialog.
CoRR, 2022

Why Robust Natural Language Understanding is a Challenge.
CoRR, 2022

Report from the NSF Future Directions Workshop on Automatic Evaluation of Dialog: Research Directions and Challenges.
CoRR, 2022

Demonstrating EMMA: Embodied MultiModal Agent for Language-guided Action Execution in 3D Simulated Environments.
Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2022

Guiding the Release of Safer E2E Conversational AI through Value Sensitive Design.
Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2022

Risk-graded Safety for Handling Medical Queries in Conversational AI.
Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 12th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 2022

SafetyKit: First Aid for Measuring Safety in Open-domain Conversational Systems.
Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2022

2021
ConvAbuse: Data, Analysis, and Benchmarks for Nuanced Abuse Detection in Conversational AI.
CoRR, 2021

Anticipating Safety Issues in E2E Conversational AI: Framework and Tooling.
CoRR, 2021

Alexa, Google, Siri: What are Your Pronouns? Gender and Anthropomorphism in the Design and Perception of Conversational Assistants.
CoRR, 2021

MiRANews: Dataset and Benchmarks for Multi-Resource-Assisted News Summarization.
Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021, 2021

What happens if you treat ordinal ratings as interval data? Human evaluations in NLP are even more under-powered than you think.
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2021

ConvAbuse: Data, Analysis, and Benchmarks for Nuanced Detection in Conversational AI.
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2021

AggGen: Ordering and Aggregating while Generating.
Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 2021

OTTers: One-turn Topic Transitions for Open-Domain Dialogue.
Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 2021

2020
Evaluating the state-of-the-art of End-to-End Natural Language Generation: The E2E NLG challenge.
Comput. Speech Lang., 2020

Twenty Years of Confusion in Human Evaluation: NLG Needs Evaluation Sheets and Standardised Definitions.
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, 2020

SLURP: A Spoken Language Understanding Resource Package.
Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2020

Fact-based Content Weighting for Evaluating Abstractive Summarisation.
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020

History for Visual Dialog: Do we really need it?
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020

2019
User Evaluation of a Multi-dimensional Statistical Dialogue System.
Proceedings of the 20th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, 2019

A Crowd-based Evaluation of Abuse Response Strategies in Conversational Agents.
Proceedings of the 20th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, 2019

Benchmarking Natural Language Understanding Services for Building Conversational Agents.
Proceedings of the Increasing Naturalness and Flexibility in Spoken Dialogue Interaction, 2019

Let's Chat! Can Virtual Agents learn how to have a Conversation?
Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2019

Automatic Quality Estimation for Natural Language Generation: Ranting (Jointly Rating and Ranking).
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, 2019

Semantic Noise Matters for Neural Natural Language Generation.
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, 2019

2018
Towards Learning Transferable Conversational Skills using Multi-dimensional Dialogue Modelling.
CoRR, 2018

RankME: Reliable Human Ratings for Natural Language Generation.
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2018

Findings of the E2E NLG Challenge.
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, 2018

Improving Context Modelling in Multimodal Dialogue Generation.
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, 2018

#MeToo Alexa: How Conversational Systems Respond to Sexual Harassment.
Proceedings of the Second ACL Workshop on Ethics in Natural Language Processing, 2018

Better Conversations by Modeling, Filtering, and Optimizing for Coherence and Diversity.
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Brussels, Belgium, October 31, 2018

A Knowledge-Grounded Multimodal Search-Based Conversational Agent.
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Search-Oriented Conversational AI, 2018

2017
An Ensemble Model with Ranking for Social Dialogue.
CoRR, 2017

Referenceless Quality Estimation for Natural Language Generation.
CoRR, 2017

Data-driven Natural Language Generation: Paving the Road to Success.
CoRR, 2017

Data-to-Text Generation Improves Decision-Making Under Uncertainty.
IEEE Comput. Intell. Mag., 2017

Special issue on spatial reasoning and interaction for real-world robotics.
Adv. Robotics, 2017

A review of spatial reasoning and interaction for real-world robotics.
Adv. Robotics, 2017

The E2E Dataset: New Challenges For End-to-End Generation.
Proceedings of the 18th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, 2017

A review of evaluation techniques for social dialogue systems.
Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCHI International Workshop on Investigating Social Interactions with Artificial Agents, 2017

Why We Need New Evaluation Metrics for NLG.
Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2017

2016
Information density and overlap in spoken dialogue.
Comput. Speech Lang., 2016

Natural Language Generation as Planning under Uncertainty Using Reinforcement Learning.
CoRR, 2016

iLab-Edinburgh at SemEval-2016 Task 7: A Hybrid Approach for Determining Sentiment Intensity of Arabic Twitter Phrases.
Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, 2016

The REAL Corpus: A Crowd-Sourced Corpus of Human Generated and Evaluated Spatial References to Real-World Urban Scenes.
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation LREC 2016, 2016

The aNALoGuE Challenge: Non Aligned Language GEneration.
Proceedings of the INLG 2016, 2016

Crowd-sourcing NLG Data: Pictures Elicit Better Data.
Proceedings of the INLG 2016, 2016

How to talk to strangers: Generating medical reports for first-time users.
Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, 2016

Natural Language Generation enhances human decision-making with uncertain information.
Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2016

2015
Genetic algorithm evaluation of green search allocation policies in multilevel complex urban scenarios.
J. Comput. Sci., 2015

Benchmarking Machine Translated Sentiment Analysis for Arabic Tweets.
Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2015, The 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Denver, Colorado, USA, May 31, 2015

Agent-based Modelling for Green Space Allocation in Urban Areas - Factors Influencing Agent Behaviour.
Proceedings of the ICAART 2015, 2015

A Game-Based Setup for Data Collection and Task-Based Evaluation of Uncertain Information Presentation.
Proceedings of the ENLG 2015, 2015

Generating and Evaluating Landmark-Based Navigation Instructions in Virtual Environments.
Proceedings of the ENLG 2015, 2015

From the Virtual to the RealWorld: Referring to Objects in Real-World Spatial Scenes.
Proceedings of the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2015

2014
Natural Language Generation as Incremental Planning Under Uncertainty: Adaptive Information Presentation for Statistical Dialogue Systems.
IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process., 2014

Evaluating Distant Supervision for Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis on Arabic Twitter Feeds.
Proceedings of the EMNLP 2014 Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing, 2014


An Arabic Twitter Corpus for Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis.
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2014

Cluster-based Prediction of User Ratings for Stylistic Surface Realisation.
Proceedings of the 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2014

Reinforcement learning approaches to natural language generation in interactive systems.
Proceedings of the Natural Language Generation in Interactive Systems, 2014

2013
Agent-based modelling of land use dynamics and residential quality of life for future scenarios.
Environ. Model. Softw., 2013

Demonstration of the PARLANCE system: a data-driven incremental, spoken dialogue system for interactive search.
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2013 Conference, 2013

Evolving Optimal Spatial Allocation Policies for Complex and Uncertain Environments.
Proceedings of the Agents and Artificial Intelligence - 5th International Conference, 2013

Evolving Urbanisation Policies - Using a Statistical Model to Accelerate Optimisation over Agent-based Simulations.
Proceedings of the ICAART 2013, 2013

2012
Modelling the impacts of land system dynamics on human well-being: Using an agent-based approach to cope with data limitations in Koper, Slovenia.
Comput. Environ. Urban Syst., 2012

Optimising Incremental Generation for Spoken Dialogue Systems: Reducing the Need for Fillers.
Proceedings of the INLG 2012 - Proceedings of the Seventh International Natural Language Generation Conference, 30 May 2012, 2012

Optimising Incremental Dialogue Decisions Using Information Density for Interactive Systems.
Proceedings of the 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, 2012

2011
Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Dialogue Systems - A Data-driven Methodology for Dialogue Management and Natural Language Generation
Theory and Applications of Natural Language Processing, Springer, ISBN: 978-3-642-24942-6, 2011

Learning and Evaluation of Dialogue Strategies for New Applications: Empirical Methods for Optimization from Small Data Sets.
Comput. Linguistics, 2011

Adaptive Information Presentation for Spoken Dialogue Systems: Evaluation with real users.
Proceedings of the ENLG 2011, 2011

2010
Learning human multimodal dialogue strategies.
Nat. Lang. Eng., 2010

Generation Under Uncertainty.
Proceedings of the INLG 2010, 2010

Optimising Information Presentation for Spoken Dialogue Systems.
Proceedings of the ACL 2010, 2010

2009
Does this list contain what you were searching for? Learning adaptive dialogue strategies for interactive question answering.
Nat. Lang. Eng., 2009

Predicting how it sounds: re-ranking dialogue prompts based on TTS quality for adaptive spoken dialogue systems.
Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2009

Natural Language Generation as Planning Under Uncertainty for Spoken Dialogue Systems.
Proceedings of the EACL 2009, 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference, Athens, Greece, March 30, 2009

2008
Bootstrapping reinforcement learning-based dialogue strategies from wizard-of-oz data.
PhD thesis, 2008

Automatic Learning and Evaluation of User-Centered Objective Functions for Dialogue System Optimisation.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2008

Learning Effective Multimodal Dialogue Strategies from Wizard-of-Oz Data: Bootstrapping and Evaluation.
Proceedings of the ACL 2008, 2008

2007
Learning dialogue strategies for interactive database search.
Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2007

2006
Using logistic Regression to Initialise Reinforcement-Learning-Based Dialogue Systems.
Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE ACL Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2006

The SAMMIE Corpus of Multimodal Dialogues with an MP3 Player.
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2006

Cluster-based user simulations for learning dialogue strategies.
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2006

Using Machine Learning to Explore Human Multimodal Clarification Strategies.
Proceedings of the ACL 2006, 2006

The SAMMIE Multimodal Dialogue Corpus Meets the Nite XML Toolkit.
Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on NLP and XML: Multi-Dimensional Markup in Natural Language Processing, 2006

2005
A Corpus Collection and Annotation Framework for Learning Multimodal Clarification Strategies.
Proceedings of the 6th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, 2005

An Experiment Setup for Collecting Data for Adaptive Output Planning in a Multimodal Dialogue System.
Proceedings of the Tenth European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, 2005

Implications for Generating Clarification Requests in Task-Oriented Dialogues.
Proceedings of the ACL 2005, 2005


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