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Paper accepted at EMNLP'12

posted 19 May 2012 01:22 by Verena Rieser

Nina Dethlefs, Helen Hastie, Verena Rieser and Oliver Lemon. Optimising Incremental Dialogue Decisions Using Information Density for Interactive Systems. In: Proc. of Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNLL 2012), July 12–14, 2012, Jeju, Korea.

EMNLP'12 program committee

posted 30 Mar 2012 06:54 by Verena Rieser

I'm reviewing for EMNLP this year.

Paper accepted at INLG'12

posted 30 Mar 2012 06:52 by Verena Rieser [ updated 30 Mar 2012 06:53 ]

Nina Dethlefs, Helen Hastie, Verena Rieser and Oliver Lemon. Optimising Incremental Generation for Spoken Dialogue Systems: Reducing the Need for Fillers by Optimising Waiting Time and Content Re-ordering. To be presented at: International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG). 2012

Scottish Crucible

posted 16 Mar 2012 04:32 by Verena Rieser

I have been selected to take part in the Scottish Crucible 2012.

SemDial programme committee

posted 6 Feb 2012 03:12 by Verena Rieser

I'm looking fwd to serve on the SemDial programme committee 2012. SemDial will take place in Paris in September. Paper submission deadline is 1 May. See CFP for more details.

New Course in Software Development

posted 21 Jan 2012 08:04 by Verena Rieser

I'm designing a new course for undergrads on Software Development for Heriot-Watt University.

This course teaches students good software engineering practises and good programming style using Java. Emphasis is on modern software engineering principles: object-oriented design, decomposition, encapsulation, abstraction, and testing. The schedule can be found here.

Paper on Forest Optimisation at NIPS workshop.

posted 16 Dec 2011 05:44 by Verena Rieser

I am presenting a paper on "Spatial-Temporal Optimisation for Adaptive Sustainable Forest Management" at the NIPS'11 workshop on Machine Learning for Sustainability.

| Attachments: forestOptimisation-nips2011-cameraready.pdf

Book with Springer

posted 9 Oct 2011 04:35 by Verena Rieser [ updated 10 Oct 2011 13:07 ]

Our book "Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Dialogue Systems" is available for purchase from the Springer website.

Start at Heriot-Watt 1st Nov

posted 9 Oct 2011 04:29 by Verena Rieser

From 1st Nov 2011 onwards I will be working as a lecturer in Computer Sciences at Heriot-Watt University. I will be out of the office from 27th Sept to 30 Oct - first ENLG and then holidays. I expect to have limited email access from 11-30 Oct. Please contact me on my return. Sorry for any inconvenience

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