Verena Rieser

51 papers · 2005–2025 · 11 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

🐝 Cross-Pollinator (9) 🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird 🗺️ Taxonomy Completionist (59) 🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge 🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🌈 Renaissance Researcher (8) 🌍 Conference Polyglot (11) 🏃 Academic Marathon (20) 👥 Mega-Team (42) 🤝 Dynamic Duo (15) 🔬 Deep Specialist (10) 🧬 Topic Evolution 🏆 Keyword Champion (2) 📈 Trend Setter 🗃️ Keyword Collector (174) ⚡ Prolific Year (11) 🔥 Unstoppable (6) 💎 Century Club (51) ❓ The Questioner (7)

Conferences

ACL (16) EMNLP (15) IJCNLP (4) COLING (3) EACL (3) NAACL (3) SEMEVAL (3) AACL (1) CONLL (1) ICLR (1) IJCAI (1)

Top co-authors

Gavin Abercrombie (15) Ioannis Konstas (14) Oliver Lemon (10) Ondřej Dušek (9) Amanda Cercas Curry (8) Tanvi Dinkar (6) Xinnuo Xu (5) Dirk Hovy (3) David M. Howcroft (3) Dimitra Gkatzia (3)

Keywords

conversational ai (7) human evaluation (5) text generation (4) natural language generation (4) conversational assistant (3) human-ai interaction (3) text classification (3) open-domain dialogue (3) multimodal learning (3) sentiment analysis (2) dialogue system (2) human annotation (2) abstractive summarization (2) commonsense reasoning (2) safety evaluation (2) conversational agent (2) language model (2) prompt engineering (2) natural language processing (2) crowdsourced annotation (2)

Papers

Consistency is Key: Disentangling Label Variation in Natural Language Processing with Intra-Annotator Agreement EMNLP 2025

CulturalFrames: Assessing Cultural Expectation Alignment in Text-to-Image Models and Evaluation Metrics EMNLP 2025

Value Profiles for Encoding Human Variation EMNLP 2025

Century: A Framework and Dataset for Evaluating Historical Contextualisation of Sensitive Images ICLR 2025

STAR: SocioTechnical Approach to Red Teaming Language Models EMNLP 2024

ReproHum #0927-03: DExpert Evaluation? Reproducing Human Judgements of the Fluency of Generated Text COLING 2024

The Dangers of trusting Stochastic Parrots: Faithfulness and Trust in Open-domain Conversational Question Answering ACL 2023

Adversarial Textual Robustness on Visual Dialog ACL 2023

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

SemEval-2023 Task 11: Learning with Disagreements (LeWiDi) ACL 2023

Missing Information, Unresponsive Authors, Experimental Flaws: The Impossibility of Assessing the Reproducibility of Previous Human Evaluations in NLP EACL 2023

Resources for Automated Identification of Online Gender-Based Violence: A Systematic Review ACL 2023

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

Quality-agnostic Image Captioning to Safely Assist People with Vision Impairment IJCAI 2023

Mirages. On Anthropomorphism in Dialogue Systems EMNLP 2023

Multitask Multimodal Prompted Training for Interactive Embodied Task Completion EMNLP 2023

SemEval-2023 Task 11: Learning with Disagreements (LeWiDi) SEMEVAL 2023

Risk-graded Safety for Handling Medical Queries in Conversational AI AACL 2022

SafetyKit: First Aid for Measuring Safety in Open-domain Conversational Systems ACL 2022

Risk-graded Safety for Handling Medical Queries in Conversational AI IJCNLP 2022

Alexa, Google, Siri: What are Your Pronouns? Gender and Anthropomorphism in the Design and Perception of Conversational Assistants IJCNLP 2021

ConvAbuse: Data, Analysis, and Benchmarks for Nuanced Abuse Detection in Conversational AI EMNLP 2021

OTTers: One-turn Topic Transitions for Open-Domain Dialogue IJCNLP 2021

AggGen: Ordering and Aggregating while Generating IJCNLP 2021

AggGen: Ordering and Aggregating while Generating ACL 2021

OTTers: One-turn Topic Transitions for Open-Domain Dialogue ACL 2021

Alexa, Google, Siri: What are Your Pronouns? Gender and Anthropomorphism in the Design and Perception of Conversational Assistants ACL 2021

MiRANews: Dataset and Benchmarks for Multi-Resource-Assisted News Summarization EMNLP 2021

What happens if you treat ordinal ratings as interval data? Human evaluations in NLP are even more under-powered than you think EMNLP 2021

Conversational Assistants and Gender Stereotypes: Public Perceptions and Desiderata for Voice Personas COLING 2020

SLURP: A Spoken Language Understanding Resource Package EMNLP 2020

History for Visual Dialog: Do we really need it? ACL 2020

Fact-based Content Weighting for Evaluating Abstractive Summarisation ACL 2020

RankME: Reliable Human Ratings for Natural Language Generation NAACL 2018

Better Conversations by Modeling, Filtering, and Optimizing for Coherence and Diversity EMNLP 2018

A Knowledge-Grounded Multimodal Search-Based Conversational Agent EMNLP 2018

#MeToo Alexa: How Conversational Systems Respond to Sexual Harassment NAACL 2018

Why We Need New Evaluation Metrics for NLG EMNLP 2017

iLab-Edinburgh at SemEval-2016 Task 7: A Hybrid Approach for Determining Sentiment Intensity of Arabic Twitter Phrases SEMEVAL 2016

Natural Language Generation enhances human decision-making with uncertain information ACL 2016

From the Virtual to the RealWorld: Referring to Objects in Real-World Spatial Scenes EMNLP 2015

Benchmarking Machine Translated Sentiment Analysis for Arabic Tweets NAACL 2015

Cluster-based Prediction of User Ratings for Stylistic Surface Realisation EACL 2014

Optimising Incremental Dialogue Decisions Using Information Density for Interactive Systems CONLL 2012

Optimising Incremental Dialogue Decisions Using Information Density for Interactive Systems EMNLP 2012

Optimising Information Presentation for Spoken Dialogue Systems ACL 2010

Natural Language Generation as Planning Under Uncertainty for Spoken Dialogue Systems EACL 2009

Learning Effective Multimodal Dialogue Strategies from Wizard-of-Oz Data: Bootstrapping and Evaluation ACL 2008

Using Machine Learning to Explore Human Multimodal Clarification Strategies ACL 2006

Using Machine Learning to Explore Human Multimodal Clarification Strategies COLING 2006

Implications for Generating Clarification Requests in Task-Oriented Dialogues ACL 2005