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Ask the experts: sourcing a high-quality nutrition counseling dataset through Human-AI collaboration

2024

Balloccu, S., Reiter, E., Li, K. J., Sargsyan, R., Kumar, V., Reforgiato, D., Riboni, D., Dusek, O.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.findings-emnlp.674
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/24685/1/Balloccu_etal_ACL_Ask_The_Experts_VoR.pdf

Natural Language Generation

2024

Reiter, E.

Springer. 202 pages

Books and Reports: Books

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-68582-8

Towards LLM-driven Automated Verification of Best Practices in Digital Public Infrastructures

2024 - Accepted/In press

Markovic, M., Sripada, S., Chakrabart, S. K., Diddigi, R. B.

Contributions to Conferences: Papers

Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/24417/1/Markovic_etal_SICSA_Towards_LLM_Driven_AAM.pdf

A Comparative Analysis of Metaphorical Cognition in ChatGPT and Human Minds

2025

Mao, R., Chen, G., Li, X., Ge, M., Cambria, E.

Cognitive Computation

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-024-10393-y

Do Language Models Exhibit Human-like Structural Priming Effects?

2024

Jumelet, J., Zuidema, W., Sinclair, A.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.findings-acl.877
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/24554/1/Jumelet_etal_ACL62_Do_Language_Models_VOR.pdf
Additional Links: View publication in Scopus

Caregiver modelling and feedback in the context of early questions

2024

Heim, J., Bala, M., Sinclair, A.

Contributions to Conferences: Papers

Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/23919/2/CLS24_Heim_et_al_Caregiver_modelling_and_feedback.pdf

Improving Factual Accuracy of Neural Table-to-Text Output by Addressing Input Problems in ToTTo

2024

Sundararajan, B., Sripada, S., Reiter, E.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Online: https://aclanthology.org/2024.naacl-long.408.pdf
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Common Flaws in Running Human Evaluation Experiments in NLP

2024

Thomson, C., Reiter, E., Belz, A.

Computational Linguistics, vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 795–805

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1162/coli_a_00508
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/23764/1/Thomson_etal_CL_Common_Flaws_in_VOR.pdf
Additional Links: https://abdn.elsevierpure.com/en/publications/bdae6575-848e-4639-ae80-0a7f6dbe0f02

Anchored Answers: Unravelling Positional Bias in GPT-2's Multiple-Choice Questions

2024

Li, R., Gao, Y.

Working Papers and Discussion Papers

Online: file:///C:/Users/s01gv9/Downloads/2405.03205v2.pdf
Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2405.03205

Listen Again and Choose the Right Answer: A New Paradigm for Automatic Speech Recognition with Large Language Models

2024

Hu, Y., Chen, C., Qin, C., Zhu, Q., Chng, E. S., Li, R.

Working Papers and Discussion Papers

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2405.10025

Overcoming Catastrophic Forgetting by Exemplar Selection in Task-oriented Dialogue System

2024

Chen, C., Li, R., Hu, Y., Chen, Y., Qin, C., Zhang, Q.

Working Papers and Discussion Papers

Online: file:///C:/Users/s01gv9/Downloads/2405.10992v1.pdf
Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2405.1099

Large Language Models are Efficient Learners of Noise-Robust Speech Recognition

2024

Hu, Y., Chen, C., Yang, C. H., Li, R., Zhang, C., Chen, P., Chng, E.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Online: file:///C:/Users/s01gv9/Downloads/4397_large_language_models_are_effi.pdf
Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2401.10446
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/22864/1/2401.10446v1.pdf

It's Never Too Late: Fusing Acoustic Information into Large Language Models for Automatic Speech Recognition

2024

Chen, C., Li, R., Hu, Y., Siniscalchi, S. M., Chen, P., Chng, E., Yang, C. H.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Online: file:///C:/Users/s01gv9/Downloads/3711_it_s_never_too_late_fusing_aco.pdf
Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2402.05457
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/22863/1/2402.05457v1.pdf
Additional Links: https://openreview.net/group?id=ICLR.cc/2024/Conference#tab-accept-oral

Efficiency and Effectiveness in Task-Oriented Dialogue: On Construction Repetition, Information Rate, and Task Success

2024

Yee, J. S., Giulianelli, M., Sinclair, A.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Online: https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.494
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/23945/1/Yee_etal_LREC_Effeciency_and_Effectiveness_VOR.pdf
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Linguistically Communicating Uncertainty in Patient-Facing Risk Prediction Models

2024

Sivaprasad, A., Reiter, E.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Online: https://aclanthology.org/2024.uncertainlp-1.0.pdf
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/23386/1/Sivaprasad_etReiter_UNLP_Linguistically_Comunicating_Uncertainty_VOR.pdf
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Simulated Task Oriented Dialogues for Developing Versatile Conversational Agents

2024

Wang, X., Sen, P., Li, R., Yilmaz, E.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56027-9_10
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/23609/1/Wang_etal_AIR_Simulated_Task_Oriented_AAM.pdf
Additional Links: View publication in Scopus

Smartphone-based extendable telematic data collection app

2024

Peter, T. I., Reiter, E., Yi, D.

Software Impacts, vol. 19, 100601

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.simpa.2023.100601
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/22510/1/Thompson_etal_SI_Smartphone_based_extendable_VOR.pdf
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GenTranslate: Large Language Models are Generative Multilingual Speech and Machine Translators

2024

Hu, Y., Chen, C., Yang, C. H., Li, R., Zhang, D., Chen, Z., Chng, E. S.

Working Papers and Discussion Papers

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2402.06894
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/22841/1/2402.06894v1.pdf

Evaluation of Human-Understandability of Global Model Explanations Using Decision Tree

2024

Sivaprasad, A., Reiter, E., Tintarev, N., Oren, N.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50396-2_3
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/22828/1/Sivaprasad_etal_ECAI_Evaluation_of_Human_VOR.pdf
Additional Links: View publication in Scopus; https://ecai2023.eu/; https://xai3ecai2023.github.io/

THE BAT: Thoughts Hierarchical Enhancement Beyond Arbitrary Text Style Transfer

2024

Zeng, B., Liang, J., Hua, Y., Li, R., Deng, H., Peng, Y., Wang, R.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-5672-8_32
Additional Links: View publication in Scopus

Attribution and Alignment: Effects of Local Context Repetition on Utterance Production and Comprehension in Dialogue

2023

Molnar, A., Jumelet, J., Giulianelli, M., Sinclair, A.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.conll-1.18
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/23150/1/Molnar_etal_CONLL_Attribution_and_Alignment_VOR.pdf
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A taxonomy and review of generalization research in NLP

2023

Hupkes, D., Giulianelli, M., Dankers, V., Artetxe, M., Elazar, Y., Pimentel, T., Christodoulopoulos, C., Lasri, K., Saphra, N., Sinclair, A., Ulmer, D., Schottmann, F., Batsuren, K., Sun, K., Sinha, K., Khalatbari, L., Ryskina, M., Frieske, R., Cotterell, R., Jin, Z.

Nature Machine Intelligence, vol. 5, no. 10, pp. 1161-1174

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-023-00729-y
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/22147/1/Hupkes_Etal_A_Taxonomy_And_VOR.pdf
Additional Links: View publication in Scopus

Evaluation of Human-Understandability of Global Model Explanations using Decision Tree

2023

Sivaprasad, A., Reiter, E., Oren, N., Tintarev, N.

Working Papers and Discussion Papers

Online: http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.09917v1
Additional Links: https://ecai2023.eu/; https://xai3ecai2023.github.io/

Enhancing Factualness and Controllability of Data-to-Text Generation via Data Views and Constraints

2023

Thomson, C., Rebuffel, C., Reiter, E., Soulier, L., Sripada, S., Gallinari, P.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.inlg-main.16
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/24018/1/Thomson_etal_INLG_Enhancing_Factualness_And_VoR.pdf
Additional Links: https://inlg2023.github.io/index.html; https://sigdialinlg2023.github.io/paper_inlg97.html

Leveraging A Medical Knowledge Graph into Large Language Models for Diagnosis Prediction

2023

Gao, Y., Li, R., Caskey, J., Dligach, D., Miller, T., Churpek, M. M., Afshar, M.

Working Papers and Discussion Papers

Online: http://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.14321v1
Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2308.14321

Cross-Modal Global Interaction and Local Alignment for Audio-Visual Speech Recognition

2023

Hu, Y., Li, R., Chen, C., Zou, H., Zhu, Q., Chng, E. S.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2023/564
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Smart Selection of Useful Insights from Wearables

2023

Susaiyah, A., Harma, A., Balloccu, S., Reiter, E., Petkovic, M.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSPW59220.2023.10193140
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Noise-aware Speech Enhancement using Diffusion Probabilistic Model

2023

Hu, Y., Chen, C., Li, R., Zhu, Q., Chng, E. S.

Working Papers and Discussion Papers

Online: http://arxiv.org/abs/2307.08029v1
Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2307.08029
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/21469/1/2307.08029v1.pdf

Hearing Lips in Noise: Universal Viseme-Phoneme Mapping and Transfer for Robust Audio-Visual Speech Recognition

2023

Hu, Y., Li, R., Chen, C., Qin, C., Zhu, Q., Chng, E. S.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Online: https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.848/
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/21188/2/2306.10563v1.pdf; http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/21188/1/Hu_etal_ACL_Hearing_Lips_In_VoR.pdf

MIR-GAN: Refining Frame-Level Modality-Invariant Representations with Adversarial Network for Audio-Visual Speech Recognition

2023

Hu, Y., Chen, C., Li, R., Zou, H., Chng, E. S.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Online: https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.649
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/21187/2/2306.10567v1.pdf; http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/21187/1/Hu_etal_ACL_MIR_GAN_Refining_Frame_VoR.pdf

Non-Repeatable Experiments and Non-Reproducible Results: The Reproducibility Crisis in Human Evaluation in NLP

2023

Belz, A., Thomson, C., Reiter, E., Mille, S.

Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023. Rogers, A., Boyd-Graber, J., Okazaki, N. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 3676-3687, 12 pages

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.findings-acl.226
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/21800/1/Belz_etal_ACL_Non-repetable_Experiments_And_VoR.pdf

MetaPro Online:: A computational metaphor processing online system

2023

Mao, R., Li, X., Kai, H., Ge, M., Cambria, E.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.acl-demo.12
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/22918/1/Mao_etal_ACL_Metapro_Online_a_VOR.pdf

Gradient Remedy for Multi-Task Learning in End-to-End Noise-Robust Speech Recognition

2023

Hu, Y., Chen, C., Li, R., Zhu, Q., Chng, E. S.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP49357.2023.10096615

Consultation Response to the UK Government’s Policy Proposals on AI Regulation: A Pro-Innovation Approach

2023

Zivkovic, P., Carey, L., Cserne, P., Lombardi, C., Poesen, M., Sripada, S., Sutherland, C., Taylor, R., Le, X. T., Adebola, T. (ed.)

University of Aberdeen: School of Law. 20 pages.

Other Contributions: Other Contributions

Influence of context on users’ views about explanations for decision-tree predictions

2023

Maruf, S., Zukerman, I., Reiter, E., Haffari, G.

Computer Speech & Language, vol. 81, 101483

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csl.2023.101483
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/22500/1/Maruf_etal_CSL_Influence_Context_Users_AAM.pdf

Cross-Modal Global Interaction and Local Alignment for Audio-Visual Speech Recognition

2023

Hu, Y., Li, R., Chen, C., Zou, H., Zhu, Q., Chng, E. S.

Working Papers and Discussion Papers

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2305.09212 Focus to learn more
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/21191/1/2305.09212v1.pdf

Evaluating factual accuracy in complex data-to-text

2023

Thomson, C., Reiter, E., Sundararajan, B.

Computer Speech & Language, vol. 80, 101482

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Online: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0885230823000013
Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csl.2023.101482
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/22498/1/Thomson_etal_CSL_Evaluating_factual_accuracy_AAM.pdf

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

2023

Belz, A., Thomson, C., Reiter, E., Abercrombie, G., Alonso Moral, J. M., Arvan, M., Cheung, J., Cieliebak, M., Clark, E., van Deemter, K., Dinkar, T., Dušek, O., Eger, S., Fang, Q., Gatt, A., Gkatzia, D., González Corbelle, J., Hovy, D., Hürlimann, M., Ito, T., Kelleher, J. D., Klubicka, F., Lai, H., van der Lee, C., van Miltenburg, E., Li, Y., Mahamood, S., Mieskes, M., Nissim, M., Parde, N., Plátek, O., Rieser, V., Mosteiro Romero, P., Tetreault, J., Toral, A., Wang, X., Wanner, L., Watson, L., Yang, D.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.insights-1.1
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/21801/1/Belz_etal_ACL_Missing_Information_Unresposive_VoR.pdf

Alignment of code switching varies with proficiency in second language learning dialogue

2023

Sinclair, A. J., Fernández, R.

System, vol. 113, 102952

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2022.102952
Additional Links: View publication in Scopus

State-of-the-art generalisation research in NLP: a taxonomy and review

2023

Hupkes, D., Giulianelli, M., Dankers, V., Artetxe, M., Elazar, Y., Pimentel, T., Christodoulopoulos, C., Lasri, K., Saphra, N., Sinclair, A., Ulmer, D., Schottmann, F., Batsuren, K., Sun, K., Sinha, K., Khalatbari, L., Ryskina, M., Technology, H., Cotterell, R., Jin, Z.

Working Papers and Discussion Papers