NEWS
Article in the New Statesman posted 21 Sept 2021
Winner of "Inspirational 50 Women in Tech UK" 2021 posted 21 Sept 2021
3rd most watched Video at the Edinburgh Science Festival posted 21 Sept 2021
Interview with AcademiaNet posted 10 May 2021
posted 25 Mar 2021, 09:12 by Verena Rieser
I am organising a special session on Safety for Conversational AI at SigDial2021. See CFP
Invited talks at NeuCAIR'21 and Doc2Dial'21
posted 17 Feb 2021, 16:07 by Verena Rieser
I'm looking forward to speaking at the ICLR-2021 Workshop on Neural Conversational AI (NeuCAIR'21) and the ACL-2021 Workshop Document-grounded Dialogue (Doc2Dial'21).
posted 3 Feb 2021, 22:12 by Verena Rieser
The recording of my talk "Context Modelling for Visually Grounded Dialogue" is now available here.
posted 3 Jan 2021, 14:42 by Verena Rieser
I now have my own entry on Wikipedia.
1st Workshop Safety for ConvAI
posted 12 Nov 2020, 09:27 by Verena Rieser [ updated 12 Nov 2020, 09:29 ]
I co-organised the 1st Workshop Safety for ConvAI. We have written a blog post on the take-away messages.
Keynote at ACM MM ConvAI workshop
posted 2 Oct 2020, 10:35 by Verena Rieser
I'm excited to keynote at this event!
posted 21 Jul 2020, 08:34 by Verena Rieser
It's my pleasure to speak at Apple's NLU workshop 2020, the EMNLP workshop on Search-oriented ConvAI, and SLT 2021.
posted 7 Jul 2020, 14:46 by Verena Rieser [ updated 7 Jul 2020, 15:06 ]
I had the honour to speak at the Royal Society's programme on AI. Here is a video. There were 60 attendees watching from the UK, Germany, USA, UAE, Malaysia, China, Tunisia, Sweden and Uruguay!
posted 3 Jul 2020, 15:09 by Verena Rieser [ updated 3 Jul 2020, 15:10 ]
Thank you everybody who contributed to the very enjoyable @sigdial breakout session on "Best practices in human evaluation of dialogue and NLG - More art than science?" Notes are available here.
Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship
posted 1 Jul 2020, 14:59 by Verena Rieser
I am thrilled to have been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship sponsored by the Royal Society!
Royal Society's AI Strategy for Scotland
posted 29 May 2020, 14:38 by Verena Rieser
I'm very happy that I was invited to contribute to the Royal Society of Edinburgh's response to Scotland's AI Strategy. Read more here.
posted 12 May 2020, 21:22 by Verena Rieser
I am super excited to be a keynote speaker for Widening NLP @ACL2020
posted 12 May 2020, 21:10 by Verena Rieser
HWU has spun out its first AI company ALANA AI.
posted 23 Mar 2020, 17:31 by Verena Rieser
It was a pleasure to be talking about data-to-text generation. Listen here.
posted 12 Mar 2020, 12:25 by Verena Rieser [ updated 12 Mar 2020, 12:25 ]
Thanks NESTA Scotland for funding our project on Abuse Mitigation in Conversational Assistants!
posted 12 Mar 2020, 12:22 by Verena Rieser
1 project on Conversational AI and Gender Stereotypes funded under the NLP Responsible Innovation call.
1 project on safe and secure neural learning for Conversational AI.
DATAIA scientific advisory board
posted 12 Mar 2020, 12:19 by Verena Rieser [ updated 12 May 2020, 21:08 ]
I've joined the scientific advisory board of the French Institute for Data and AI (DATAIA)
posted 13 Jan 2020, 10:27 by Verena Rieser
BBC News article about an AI Winter - "plateau" in terms of leaderboards but far more to go in #NLProc !
Manchester International Art Festival
posted 22 Jul 2019, 16:23 by Verena Rieser
Join me at Life Hacked!
posted 22 Jul 2019, 16:21 by Verena Rieser
Join me in London this September!
Telegraph: Meet Pioneering Women in AI
posted 11 Mar 2019, 20:50 by Verena Rieser
Telegraph interview on "AI has a gender problem. Meet pioneering women on a mission to fix it."
posted 11 Mar 2019, 20:48 by Verena Rieser
My profile is featured as one of 12 women shaping AI by NESTA.
posted 30 Dec 2018, 21:18 by Verena Rieser
Our research features in WDR German Radio show.
posted 3 Dec 2018, 20:52 by Verena Rieser [ updated 20 May 2019, 12:33 ]
I'm excited to give keynote talks at Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA2019, Paris), the 1st workshop on NLP for Conversational AI (ACL2019, Florence) and the 2nd workshop on Vocal Interactivity in-and-between Humans, Animals and Robots (VIHAR-2019) (Turing Institute, London)
posted 22 Oct 2018, 14:33 by Verena Rieser
I am on my second mat leave from July 2018 until April 2019.
Inaugural lecture — May 18, 2018 9:43:24 AM
INLG'18 keynote — Apr 26, 2018 2:09:08 PM
Hello #AlexaPrize 2018 — Feb 1, 2018 2:32:14 PM
Job opening — Nov 30, 2017 1:36:39 PM
D&D special issue in NLG4SDS — Nov 21, 2017 4:07:52 PM
16 entries to E2E NLG shared task! — Nov 2, 2017 4:27:31 PM
SigDial2017 panel session — Oct 31, 2017 2:29:13 PM
ACL2018 area chair — Oct 12, 2017 8:23:29 AM
2 new EPSRC IAAs funded — Sep 19, 2017 1:33:06 PM
#AlexaPrize finals! — Aug 29, 2017 8:31:06 PM
Nominated best paper — Aug 17, 2017 7:28:41 PM
Promotion — Jul 6, 2017 7:47:45 PM
EmoTech collaboration — May 10, 2017 2:15:26 PM
6 fully funded MSc scholarships — May 8, 2017 9:26:06 AM
NLG for SDS — Mar 29, 2017 1:50:21 PM
Invited keynote — Mar 17, 2017 10:12:32 AM
SigDial special session — Mar 15, 2017 3:25:02 PM
E2E NLG Challenge — Mar 15, 2017 3:22:08 PM
CLUNCH seminar — Feb 23, 2017 3:45:01 PM
6 Funded MSc places — Feb 23, 2017 3:30:43 PM
Advanced Robotics — Feb 13, 2017 10:29:01 AM
DSTC6 — Jan 20, 2017 10:06:07 AM
Area Chair for ACL'17 — Dec 23, 2016 8:22:10 PM
SICSA AI conference — Dec 23, 2016 8:20:21 PM
MACS Xmas conference — Nov 28, 2016 12:32:58 PM
Alexa Challenge — Nov 14, 2016 2:02:24 PM
Olly the Robot — Nov 11, 2016 10:43:17 AM
Reviewing — Oct 26, 2016 9:12:24 AM
EPSRC Peer Review College — Sep 23, 2016 12:55:14 PM
INLG'16 proceedings — Sep 5, 2016 10:51:10 AM
AcademiaNet — Aug 22, 2016 10:56:51 AM
Understanding Uncertainty — Aug 15, 2016 11:18:57 AM
NAACL'16 Best Reviewer — Jun 10, 2016 11:50:57 AM
Academic Women Now — Jun 10, 2016 8:38:34 AM
University Senate — May 13, 2016 7:18:15 PM
ACL paper accepted — Apr 18, 2016 4:56:47 PM
Vision&Language data release — Mar 8, 2016 2:23:03 PM
INLG 2016 — Mar 2, 2016 7:57:04 PM
Madrigal project funded £700k — Feb 8, 2016 7:32:24 PM
Welcome Jekaterina! — Dec 15, 2015 9:26:39 PM
RSJ Guest Editor — Nov 9, 2015 8:51:03 PM
WeatherGame publicity — Oct 18, 2015 3:51:06 PM
Reviewing — Oct 7, 2015 7:01:03 PM
GUI project @Zoo. — Sep 25, 2015 4:54:52 PM
Hiring! — Sep 24, 2015 10:16:14 AM
Win £50 Amazon voucher! — Sep 24, 2015 10:14:30 AM
3 new GUI publications — Aug 4, 2015 7:29:18 AM
Editorial board of Science Scotland — Jul 15, 2015 7:21:17 AM
IROS'15 workshop — May 11, 2015 12:56:06 PM
Nomination for HWU Pride and Ambition — May 1, 2015 4:25:39 PM
Maternity leave — May 1, 2015 11:33:44 AM
Press coverage of DILIGENT project — Apr 2, 2015 4:20:03 PM
Student wins BSC Lovelace — Apr 1, 2015 12:30:46 PM
Hiring! — Jan 21, 2015 12:35:02 PM
1st Workshop on Data-to-text Generation — Jan 15, 2015 5:39:36 PM
QAA Student Enhancement Grant — Dec 1, 2014 10:40:59 AM
EdinburghApps Award — Oct 27, 2014 1:41:56 PM
EPSRC grant funded (£565k) — Sep 11, 2014 5:49:30 PM
RSE Young Academy — Jun 27, 2014 10:24:28 AM
Arabic Twitter Corpus released — Jun 23, 2014 6:06:02 PM
EPSRC First Grant funded — Apr 23, 2014 4:18:53 PM
Deep Learning workshop — Apr 9, 2014 9:27:14 AM
PhD scholarships — Feb 26, 2014 3:57:23 PM
DialWatt'14 — Jan 28, 2014 5:16:40 PM
Programme commitee — Jan 21, 2014 2:42:08 PM
Sponsorship Chair for INLG'14 — Nov 28, 2013 10:53:47 PM
new MSc programme — Nov 20, 2013 4:38:33 PM
External PhD examiner — Nov 11, 2013 9:05:55 AM
EPSRC Grant on Accelerating Impact — Sep 24, 2013 5:05:38 PM
Reviewing for EMNLP — Jul 9, 2013 4:47:27 PM
Nominated for Teaching Oscars — Jun 26, 2013 6:41:39 PM
over 500 downloads of my book — Jun 21, 2013 3:07:56 AM
Area Chair for EACL'14 — May 14, 2013 11:47:42 PM
Invited talk @ icsi.berkeley.edu — May 14, 2013 12:28:10 AM
SIGdial advisory board — Mar 24, 2013 5:49:10 PM
PhD student at IBM Watson — Mar 22, 2013 10:01:23 AM
SIGGEN Board — Dec 14, 2012 8:59:07 AM
Reviewer for ENLG'13 — Nov 23, 2012 12:17:06 PM
Paper accepted for ICAART'13 — Nov 12, 2012 12:05:14 PM
Interconnect Mentor — Nov 7, 2012 12:49:26 PM
ACL programme committee — Oct 15, 2012 1:09:03 PM
2 RSE Scottish Crucible Projects funded — Sep 11, 2012 3:49:16 PM
SemDial'2012 posters — Jul 13, 2012 11:15:00 AM
Paper at the Workshop on Machine Learning for Interactive Systems (MLIS'12) — Jul 5, 2012 12:44:05 PM
Paper accepted at EMNLP'12 — May 19, 2012 8:22:33 AM
EMNLP'12 program committee — Mar 30, 2012 1:54:22 PM
Paper accepted at INLG'12 — Mar 30, 2012 1:52:58 PM
Scottish Crucible — Mar 16, 2012 11:32:13 AM
SemDial programme committee — Feb 6, 2012 11:12:17 AM
New Course in Software Development — Jan 21, 2012 4:04:13 PM
Paper on Forest Optimisation at NIPS workshop. — Dec 16, 2011 1:44:58 PM
Book with Springer — Oct 9, 2011 11:35:21 AM
Start at Heriot-Watt 1st Nov — Oct 9, 2011 11:29:21 AM