Research

Currently funded research projects:

1. Gender Bias in Conversational AI (PI) (EPSRC, 2020-2023)
2. AISEC (Co-I, EPSRC, 2020-2023) - Secure and Explainable AI
3. MaDrIgAL (EPSRC, 2016-2020): MultiDimensional Interaction management and Adaptive Learning

Completed Projects:

1. DILiGENt (EPSRC, 2015-2018): Domain-Independent Language Generation
2. LUCINE (DataLab, EPSRC Impact Acceleration Award, 2016-18) - Learning User preferenCes by INtEraction, Collaborative Innovation project with EmoTech LTD
3. Multimodal dialogue for e-commerce (AdeptMind scholarship, 2017-2019)
4. Amazon Alexa Challenge (2017 & 2018)
5. GUI project - "Generation for Uncertain Information", (EPSRC, EP/L026775/1, 2014-2015)
6. SpeechCity - EPSRC Impact Acceleration Award: Spatial Navigation and Spoken Interaction (EPSRC, 2013-2014).

Other Activities:

• We are organising the E2E NLG Challenge 2017/18.

Industry Partners:

• Adobe Research: Research Gift
• EmoTech LTD: EPSRC Impact Acceleration Award (2018), DataLab funding (2016-2017)
• AdeptMind: Fully funded overseas PhD scholarship (2017-2020)
• Amazon Research: Finalist of Amazon Alexa Challenge 2017