Verena Rieser

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BLOOM: A 176B-Parameter Open-Access Multilingual Language Model
Teven Le Scao, Angela Fan, Christopher Akiki, Ellie Pavlick +387 more
2022arXiv.org3,070 citations
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Natural Language Generation enhances human decision-making with uncertain information
Dimitra Gkatzia, Oliver Lemon, Verena Rieser
2016Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics1,987 citations Open access
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The E2E Dataset: New Challenges For End-to-End Generation
Jekaterina Novikova, Ondrej Dusek, Verena Rieser
2017SIGDIAL Conference553 citations Open access
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Why We Need New Evaluation Metrics for NLG
Jekaterina Novikova, Ondrej Dusek, Amanda Cercas Curry, Verena Rieser
2017Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing545 citations Open access
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SLURP: A Spoken Language Understanding Resource Package
E. Bastianelli, Andrea Vanzo, P. Swietojanski, Verena Rieser
2020Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing334 citations Open access
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Benchmarking Natural Language Understanding Services for building Conversational Agents
Xing-Kun Liu, Arash Eshghi, P. Swietojanski, Verena Rieser
2019International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology321 citations Open access
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Twenty Years of Confusion in Human Evaluation: NLG Needs Evaluation Sheets and Standardised Definitions
David M. Howcroft, Anya Belz, Miruna Clinciu, Dimitra Gkatzia +6 more
2020International Conference on Natural Language Generation288 citations Open access
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Evaluating the State-of-the-Art of End-to-End Natural Language Generation: The E2E NLG Challenge
Ondrej Dusek, Jekaterina Novikova, Verena Rieser
2019Computer Speech and Language255 citations Open access
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An Arabic Twitter Corpus for Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis
E. Refaee, Verena Rieser
2014International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation174 citations Open access
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RankME: Reliable Human Ratings for Natural Language Generation
Jekaterina Novikova, Ondrej Dusek, Verena Rieser
2018North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics131 citations Open access
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Semantic Noise Matters for Neural Natural Language Generation
Ondrej Dusek, David M. Howcroft, Verena Rieser
2019International Conference on Natural Language Generation126 citations Open access
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Findings of the E2E NLG Challenge
Ondrej Dusek, Jekaterina Novikova, Verena Rieser
2018International Conference on Natural Language Generation122 citations Open access
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Anticipating Safety Issues in E2E Conversational AI: Framework and Tooling
Emily Dinan, Gavin Abercrombie, A. S. Bergman, S. Spruit +3 more
2021arXiv.org119 citations
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SemEval-2023 Task 11: Learning with Disagreements (LeWiDi)
Elisa Leonardelli, Gavin Abercrombie, Dina Almanea, Valerio Basile +5 more
2023International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation103 citations Open access
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ConvAbuse: Data, Analysis, and Benchmarks for Nuanced Abuse Detection in Conversational AI
Amanda Cercas Curry, Gavin Abercrombie, Verena Rieser
2021Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing103 citations Open access
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#MeToo Alexa: How Conversational Systems Respond to Sexual Harassment
Amanda Cercas Curry, Verena Rieser
2018EthNLP@NAACL-HLT100 citations Open access
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Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume
J. Tiedemann, Isabelle Augenstein, Madhumita Sushil, Valerio Basile +496 more
202183 citations Open access
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History for Visual Dialog: Do we really need it?
Shubham Agarwal, Trung Bui, Joon-Young Lee, Ioannis Konstas +1 more
2020Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics77 citations Open access
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Crowd-sourcing NLG Data: Pictures Elicit Better Data.
Jekaterina Novikova, Oliver Lemon, Verena Rieser
2016International Conference on Natural Language Generation76 citations Open access
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Alexa, Google, Siri: What are Your Pronouns? Gender and Anthropomorphism in the Design and Perception of Conversational Assistants
Gavin Abercrombie, Amanda Cercas Curry, Mugdha Pandya, Verena Rieser
2021GEBNLP75 citations Open access
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SafetyKit: First Aid for Measuring Safety in Open-domain Conversational Systems
Emily Dinan, Gavin Abercrombie, A. Bergman, S. Spruit +3 more
2022Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics71 citations Open access
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Better Conversations by Modeling, Filtering, and Optimizing for Coherence and Diversity
X. Xu, Ondrej Dusek, Ioannis Konstas, Verena Rieser
2018Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing66 citations Open access
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A review of spatial reasoning and interaction for real-world robotics
Christian Landsiedel, Verena Rieser, Matthew R. Walter, D. Wollherr
2017Adv. Robotics57 citations Open access
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Alana v2: Entertaining and Informative Open-domain Social Dialogue using Ontologies and Entity Linking
A. Curry, Ioannis V. Papaioannou, Alessandro Suglia, Shubham Agarwal +7 more
201854 citations
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Missing Information, Unresponsive Authors, Experimental Flaws: The Impossibility of Assessing the Reproducibility of Previous Human Evaluations in NLP
Anya Belz, Craig Thomson, Ehud Reiter, Gavin Abercrombie +38 more
2023First Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in NLP52 citations Open access
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OTTers: One-turn Topic Transitions for Open-Domain Dialogue
Karin Sevegnani, David M. Howcroft, Ioannis Konstas, Verena Rieser
2021Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics50 citations Open access
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Mirages. On Anthropomorphism in Dialogue Systems
Gavin Abercrombie, A. Curry, Tanvi Dinkar, Verena Rieser +1 more
2023Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing46 citations Open access
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Alana: Social Dialogue using an Ensemble Model and a Ranker trained on User Feedback
Ioannis V. Papaioannou, A. Curry, Jose L. Part, Igor Shalyminov +5 more
201745 citations
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The Dangers of trusting Stochastic Parrots: Faithfulness and Trust in Open-domain Conversational Question Answering
Sabrina Chiesurin, Dimitris Dimakopoulos, Marco Antonio Sobrevilla Cabezudo, Arash Eshghi +3 more
2023Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics43 citations Open access
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Conversational Assistants and Gender Stereotypes: Public Perceptions and Desiderata for Voice Personas
Amanda Cercas Curry, J. Robertson, Verena Rieser
2020GEBNLP43 citations
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Consistency is Key: Disentangling Label Variation in Natural Language Processing with Intra-Annotator Agreement
Gavin Abercrombie, Tanvi Dinkar, A. Curry, Verena Rieser +1 more
2023NLPerspectives42 citations Open access
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Natural Language Generation as Incremental Planning Under Uncertainty: Adaptive Information Presentation for Statistical Dialogue Systems
Verena Rieser, Oliver Lemon, Simon Keizer
2014IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing40 citations Open access
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A Crowd-based Evaluation of Abuse Response Strategies in Conversational Agents
Amanda Cercas Curry, Verena Rieser
2019SIGDIAL Conferences38 citations Open access
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Understanding Counterspeech for Online Harm Mitigation
Yi-Ling Chung, Gavin Abercrombie, Florence E. Enock, Jonathan Bright +1 more
2023NEJLT30 citations Open access
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Referenceless Quality Estimation for Natural Language Generation
Ondrej Dusek, Jekaterina Novikova, Verena Rieser
2017arXiv.org30 citations
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iLab-Edinburgh at SemEval-2016 Task 7: A Hybrid Approach for Determining Sentiment Intensity of Arabic Twitter Phrases
E. Refaee, Verena Rieser
2016International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation30 citations Open access
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Benchmarking Machine Translated Sentiment Analysis for Arabic Tweets
E. Refaee, Verena Rieser
2015North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics27 citations Open access
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Guiding the Release of Safer E2E Conversational AI through Value Sensitive Design
A. S. Bergman, Gavin Abercrombie, S. Spruit, Dirk Hovy +3 more
2022SIGDIAL Conferences24 citations Open access
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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
David M. Howcroft, Verena Rieser
2021Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing24 citations Open access
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Report from the NSF Future Directions Workshop on Automatic Evaluation of Dialog: Research Directions and Challenges
Shikib Mehri, Jinho Choi, L. F. D’Haro, Jan Deriu +12 more
2022arXiv.org23 citations Open access
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Data-to-Text Generation Improves Decision-Making Under Uncertainty
Dimitra Gkatzia, Oliver Lemon, Verena Rieser
2017IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine23 citations Open access
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A Knowledge-Grounded Multimodal Search-Based Conversational Agent
Shubham Agarwal, Ondrej Dusek, Ioannis Konstas, Verena Rieser
2018SCAI@EMNLP22 citations Open access
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Information density and overlap in spoken dialogue
Nina Dethlefs, H. Hastie, H. Cuayáhuitl, Yanchao Yu +2 more
2016Computer Speech and Language22 citations Open access
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Improving Context Modelling in Multimodal Dialogue Generation
Shubham Agarwal, Ondrej Dusek, Ioannis Konstas, Verena Rieser
2018International Conference on Natural Language Generation21 citations Open access
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Evaluating Distant Supervision for Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis on Arabic Twitter Feeds
E. Refaee, Verena Rieser
2014ANLP@EMNLP20 citations Open access
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Resources for Automated Identification of Online Gender-Based Violence: A Systematic Review
Gavin Abercrombie, Aiqi Jiang, Poppy Gerrard-abbott, Ioannis Konstas +1 more
2023WOAH18 citations Open access
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From the Virtual to the RealWorld: Referring to Objects in Real-World Spatial Scenes
Dimitra Gkatzia, Verena Rieser, P. Bartie, W. Mackaness
2015Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing18 citations Open access
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NLP verification: towards a general methodology for certifying robustness
Marco Casadio, Tanvi Dinkar, Ekaterina Komendantskaya, Luca Arnaboldi +5 more
2024European journal of applied mathematics17 citations Open access
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Fact-based Content Weighting for Evaluating Abstractive Summarisation
X. Xu, Ondrej Dusek, Jingyi Li, Verena Rieser +1 more
2020Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics17 citations Open access
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A review of evaluation techniques for social dialogue systems
A. Curry, H. Hastie, Verena Rieser
2017ISIAA@ICMI16 citations Open access
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