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Chair in Computing Science
- About
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- Email Address
- e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 273443
- Office Address
Meston 243
Department of Computing Science
University of Aberdeen
King's College
Aberdeen
AB24 3UE- School/Department
- School of Natural and Computing Sciences
Biography
I have taught computing science and done research in Natural Language Generation at Aberdeen since 1995. I expect to retire in 2026 or 2027. For more information about me, please see my personal webpage ehudreiter.com
Internal Memberships
- Research ethics
- Research
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Research Overview
Current Interests
- Natural language generation
- Data-to-text
- Medical applications
Current Research Students
- Nikolai Babakov (Santiago de Compostela)
- Jawwad Baig
- Giulia Pucci
- Adarsa Sivaprasad
- Mengxuan Sun
- Barkavi Sundararajan
- Iniakpokeikiye Thompson
- Allmin Pradhap Singh Susaiyah (Eindhoven)
Current Postdocs
- David Howcroft
Past Research Students
See my blog for a list of past research students I have supervised.
CLAN
The CLAN (Computational Linguistics at Aberdeen) resesarch group meets at 4PM every Wednesday. Every week we discuss a research paper, idea, proposal, etc. CLAN meetings are open to everyone, contact me for more information or to be put on the mailing list.
I sometimes tweet CLAN information on @EhudReiter. Feel free to subscribe, most of my tweets are relevant to NLG research. Similarly my blog (ehudreiter.com) is mostly about NLG research.
Current Research
My current research focuses on (A) evaluation of natural language generation and (B) using AI and NLG to support patients, especially in their homes.
Funding and Grants
- Philhumans (EU) (2019-2023) - Using AI to support personal health apps.
- NL4XAI (EU) (2019-2024) - Explaining AI reasoning in natural language
- ReproHum (EPSRC) (2021-2024) - Investigating Reproducibility of Human Evaluations in Natural Language Processing
- ASICA (Cancer Research UK) (2024-2026): Achieving Self-directed Integrated Cancer Aftercare (ASICA) in melanoma
- Al-ʿĀmīyah (Colloquial Arabic) and generative AI (Royal Society Edinburgh) (2024-2025)– a snapshot of its emerging text-to-text abilities
- Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
- Publications
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An Investigation into the Validity of Some Metrics for Automatically Evaluating Natural Language Generation Systems
Computational Linguistics, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 529-558Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/coli.2009.35.4.35405
Le projet BabyTalk: génération de texte à partir de données hétérogènes pour la prise de décision en unité néonatale
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsAutomatic generation of textual summaries from neonatal intensive care data
Artificial Intelligence, vol. 173, no. 7-8, pp. 789-816Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2008.12.002
Facilitating benign deceit in mediated communication
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/1520340.1520490
Generating Approximate Geographic Descriptions
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsSimpleNLG: A realisation engine for practical applications
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsUsing NLG to help language-impaired users tell stories and participate in social dialogues
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsFrom Data to Text in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: Using NLG Technology for Decision Support and Information Management
AI Communications, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 153-186Contributions to Journals: Literature Reviews- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3233/AIC-2009-0453
Involving healthcare consumers in knowledge acquisition for virtual healthcare
Contributions to Conferences: PapersSummarising complex ICU data in natural language: demonstration of the BT-45 system.
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Generating basic skills reports for low-skilled readers
Natural Language Engineering, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 495-525Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1351324908004725
Using Natural Language Generation Technology to Improve Information Flows in Intensive Care Units
ECAI 2008: Proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Ghallab, M., Spyropoulos, C. D., Fakotakis, N., Avouris, N. (eds.). IOS Press, pp. 678-682, 5 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersThe Importance of Narrative and Other Lessons from an Evaluation of an NLG System that Summarises Clinical Data
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsNeonatal intensive care information for parents: An affective approach
21st IEEE Symposium on Computer-based Medical Systems. IEEE Computer Society, pp. 461-463, 3 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersBuilding a Parallel Spatio-Temporal Data-Text Corpus for Summary Generation
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsSelecting the content of textual descriptions of geographically located events in spatio-temporal weather data
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsSkillSum: basic skills screening with personalised, computer generated feedback
Contributions to Conferences: PapersStyle Variation in Cooking Recipes
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsSummarising Complex ICU Data in Natural Language
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Three Approaches to Generating Texts in Different Styles
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsUsing Spatial Reference Frames to Generate Grounded Textual Summaries of Georeferenced Data
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsWhat Do You Want to Know?: Investigating the Information Requirements of Patient Supporters
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2008.36
The Shrinking Horizons of Computational Linguistics
Computational Linguistics, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 283-287Contributions to Journals: Editorials- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/coli.2007.33.2.283
Choosing the content of textual summaries of large time-series data sets
Natural Language Engineering, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 25-49Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1351324905004031
A Comparsion of Hedged and Non-hedged NLG Texts
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsAn Architecture for Data-to-Text Systems
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsAutomatic Generation of Textual Summaries from Neonatal Intensive Care Data
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4594, pp. 227-236Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73599-1_30
Generating spatio-temporal descriptions in pollen forecasts
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Formal Issues in Natural Language Generation
Research on Language and Computation, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 1-7Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~kvdeemte/ROLC-intro.pdf
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Generating feedback reports for adults taking basic skills tests
Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems XIII: Proceedings of AI2005, the Twenty-fifth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence. Macintosh, A., Ellis, R., Allen, T. (eds.). Springer Verlag, pp. 50-63, 14 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersEvaluating an NLG system using post-editing
Contributions to Journals: Conference Articles- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Choosing Words in Computer-Generated Weather Forecasts
Artificial Intelligence, vol. 167, pp. 137-169Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2005.06.006
Connecting language to the world
Artificial Intelligence, vol. 167, pp. 112Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2005.06.002
Lessons from deploying NLG technology for marine weather forecast text generation
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsContextual influences on near-synonym choice
The Third International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG). Springer, 10 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersGenerating English Summaries of Time Series Data Using the Gricean Maxims
Proceedings of the Ninth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-2003). ACM Press, pp. 187-196Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/956750.956774
Lessons from a failure: Generating tailored smoking cessation letters.
Artificial Intelligence, vol. 144, no. (1-2), pp. 41-58Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0004-3702(02)00370-3
Acquiring Correct Knowledge for Natural Language Generation
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, vol. 18, pp. 491-516Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAcquiring and using limited user models in NLG
Contributions to Conferences: Papers- [ONLINE] https://aclanthology.org/W03-2312.pdf
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Electronic transfer of prescription-related information: comparing views of patients, general practitioners, and pharmacists
The British Journal of General Practice, vol. 53, no. 488, pp. 204-209Contributions to Journals: ArticlesExperiments with discourse-level choices and readability
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Recognising visual patterns to communicate gas turbine time-series data
Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems X: Proceedings of ES2002, the Twenty-Second SGAI International Conference on Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence. Macintosh, A. L., Ellis, R., Coenen, F. (eds.). Springer, pp. 105-118, 14 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersSegmenting time series for weather forecasting
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsSumTime-Turbine: A knowledge-based system to communicate gas turbine time-series data
Developments in Applied Artificial Intelligence: International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, IEA/AIE 2003, Loughborough, UK, June 23-26, 2003: proceedings. Chung, P. W. H., Hinde, C., Ali, M. (eds.). Springer Verlag, pp. 379-384, 6 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersSummarizing neonatal time series data
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Human Variation and Lexical Choice
Computational Linguistics, vol. 28, pp. 545-553Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/089120102762671981
Should corpora texts be gold standards for NLG?
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Cost effectiveness of computer tailored and non-tailored smoking cessation letters in general practice: randomised controlled trial
British Medical Journal, vol. 322, no. 7299, pp. 1396-1400Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.322.7299.1396
An approach to generating summaries of time series data in the gas turbine domain
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsModelling the Task of Summarising Time Series Data using KA Techniques
Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems IX. Macintosh, A., Moulton, M., Preece, A. (eds.). Springer Verlag, pp. 183-196, 14 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters