Verena Rieser

Verena Rieser

Heriot-Watt University

H-index: 38

Europe-United Kingdom

About Verena Rieser

Verena Rieser, With an exceptional h-index of 38 and a recent h-index of 29 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Heriot-Watt University, specializes in the field of Natural Language Processing, Conversational AI, Spoken Dialogue Systems, Natural Language Generation, Ethics in AI.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants

NLP Verification: Towards a General Methodology for Certifying Robustness

Self-ownership, not self-production, modulates bias and agency over a synthesised voice

SemEval-2023 task 11: Learning with disagreements (LeWiDi)

Furchat: An embodied conversational agent using llms, combining open and closed-domain dialogue with facial expressions

Mirages: On anthropomorphism in dialogue systems

Resources for automated identification of online gender-based violence: A systematic review

Consistency is key: Disentangling label variation in natural language processing with intra-annotator agreement

Verena Rieser Information

University

Position

Professor of Artificial Intelligence

Citations(all)

5898

Citations(since 2020)

4229

Cited By

2682

hIndex(all)

38

hIndex(since 2020)

29

i10Index(all)

81

i10Index(since 2020)

56

Email

University Profile Page

Heriot-Watt University

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Verena Rieser Skills & Research Interests

Natural Language Processing

Conversational AI

Spoken Dialogue Systems

Natural Language Generation

Ethics in AI

Top articles of Verena Rieser

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants

arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.16244

Iason Gabriel

Arianna Manzini

Geoff Keeling

Lisa Anne Hendricks

Verena Rieser

...

2024/4/24

NLP Verification: Towards a General Methodology for Certifying Robustness

arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.10144

Marco Casadio

Tanvi Dinkar

Ekaterina Komendantskaya

Luca Arnaboldi

Omri Isac

...

2024/3/15

Self-ownership, not self-production, modulates bias and agency over a synthesised voice

Cognition

Bryony Payne

Angus Addlesee

Verena Rieser

Carolyn McGettigan

2024/7/1

SemEval-2023 task 11: Learning with disagreements (LeWiDi)

arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.14803

Elisa Leonardelli

Alexandra Uma

Gavin Abercrombie

Dina Almanea

Valerio Basile

...

2023/4/28

Furchat: An embodied conversational agent using llms, combining open and closed-domain dialogue with facial expressions

arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.15214

Neeraj Cherakara

Finny Varghese

Sheena Shabana

Nivan Nelson

Abhiram Karukayil

...

2023/8/29

Mirages: On anthropomorphism in dialogue systems

arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.09800

Gavin Abercrombie

Amanda Cercas Curry

Tanvi Dinkar

Zeerak Talat

2023/5/16

Resources for automated identification of online gender-based violence: A systematic review

Gavin Abercrombie

Aiqi Jiang

Poppy Gerrard-Abbott

Ioannis Konstas

Verena Rieser

2023/7/13

Consistency is key: Disentangling label variation in natural language processing with intra-annotator agreement

arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.10684

Gavin Abercrombie

Verena Rieser

Dirk Hovy

2023/1/25

iLab at SemEval-2023 Task 11 Le-Wi-Di: Modelling Disagreement or Modelling Perspectives?

arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.06074

Nikolas Vitsakis

Amit Parekh

Tanvi Dinkar

Gavin Abercrombie

Ioannis Konstas

...

2023/5/10

Bloom: A 176b-parameter open-access multilingual language model

Teven Le Scao

Angela Fan

Christopher Akiki

Ellie Pavlick

Suzana Ilić

...

2023/11/20

Adversarial Textual Robustness on Visual Dialog

Lu Yu

Verena Rieser

2023/7

ANTONIO: Towards a Systematic Method of Generating NLP Benchmarks for Verification

arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.04003

Marco Casadio

Luca Arnaboldi

Matthew L Daggitt

Omri Isac

Tanvi Dinkar

...

2023/5/6

Multitask Multimodal Prompted Training for Interactive Embodied Task Completion

arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.04067

Georgios Pantazopoulos

Malvina Nikandrou

Amit Parekh

Bhathiya Hemanthage

Arash Eshghi

...

2023/11/7

Missing information, unresponsive authors, experimental flaws: The impossibility of assessing the reproducibility of previous human evaluations in NLP

arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.01633

Anya Belz

Craig Thomson

Ehud Reiter

Gavin Abercrombie

Jose M Alonso-Moral

...

2023/5/2

Sociotechnical safety evaluation of generative ai systems

arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.11986

Laura Weidinger

Maribeth Rauh

Nahema Marchal

Arianna Manzini

Lisa Anne Hendricks

...

2023/10/18

Understanding Counterspeech for Online Harm Mitigation

arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.04761

Yi-Ling Chung

Gavin Abercrombie

Florence Enock

Jonathan Bright

Verena Rieser

2023/7/1

Quality-agnostic image captioning to safely assist people with vision impairment

arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.14623

Lu Yu

Malvina Nikandrou

Jiali Jin

Verena Rieser

2023/4/28

FurNav: Development and Preliminary Study of a Robot Direction Giver

arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.14499

Bruce W Wilson

Yann Schlosser

Rayane Tarkany

Meriam Moujahid

Birthe Nesset

...

2023/9/25

The dangers of trusting stochastic parrots: Faithfulness and trust in open-domain conversational question answering

arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.16519

Sabrina Chiesurin

Dimitris Dimakopoulos

Marco Antonio Sobrevilla Cabezudo

Arash Eshghi

Ioannis Papaioannou

...

2023/5/25

Report from the nsf future directions workshop on automatic evaluation of dialog: Research directions and challenges

Shikib Mehri

Jinho Choi

Luis Fernando D'Haro

Jan Deriu

Maxine Eskenazi

...

2022/3/18

See List of Professors in Verena Rieser University(Heriot-Watt University)

Co-Authors

H-index: 47
Oliver Lemon

Oliver Lemon

Heriot-Watt University

H-index: 31
Derek T. Robinson

Derek T. Robinson

University of Waterloo

H-index: 30
Helen Hastie (née Wright)

Helen Hastie (née Wright)

Heriot-Watt University

H-index: 29
Heriberto Cuayáhuitl

Heriberto Cuayáhuitl

University of Lincoln

H-index: 28
Ondřej Dušek

Ondřej Dušek

Univerzita Karlova

H-index: 24
Ioannis Konstas

Ioannis Konstas

Heriot-Watt University

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