Professor Ehud Reiter

Professor Ehud Reiter The University of Aberdeen School of Natural & Computing Sciences Chair in Computing Science. work +44 (0)1224 273443 http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~csc157/ pref Meston 243, also often in Meston G05

Chair in Computing Science.

Personal Details

Telephone: +44 (0)1224 273443
Email: e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk
Personal website: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~csc157/
Address: Meston 243, also often in Meston G05
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Research Interests

natural-language generation, data-to-text (Research Summary )


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Teaching Responsibilities

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Admin Responsibilities

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Publications

Contributions to Journals

Articles

  • Black, R., Waller, A., Turner, RJ. & Reiter, EB. (2012). 'Supporting Personal Narrative for Children with Complex Communication Needs'. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, vol 19, no. 2, 15.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1145/2240156.2240163
  • Hunter, JRW., Freer, Y., Gatt, A., Reiter, EB., Sripada, GS. & Sykes, C. (2012). 'Automatic generation of natural language nursing shift summaries in neonatal intensive care: BT-Nurse'. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, vol 56, no. 3, pp. 157-172.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.artmed.2012.09.002
  • Hunter, JRW., Freer, Y., Gatt, A., Reiter, E., Sripada, S., Sykes, C. & Westwater, D. (2011). 'BT-Nurse: computer generation of natural language shift summaries from complex heterogeneous medical data'. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, vol 18, no. 5, pp. 621-624.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000193
  • McKinlay, A., McVittie, C., Reiter, EB., Freer, Y., Sykes, C. & Logie, R. (2010). 'Design Issues for Socially Intelligent User Interfaces A Discourse Analysis of a Data-to-text System for Summarizing Clinical Data'. Methods of Information in Medicine, vol 49, no. 4, pp. 379-387.
    [Online] DOI: 10.3414/ME0613
  • Moncur, W., Reiter, EB., Masthoff, J. & Carmichael, A. (2010). 'Modeling the Socially Intelligent Communication of Health Information to a Patient's Personal Social Network'. IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, vol 14, no. 2, pp. 319-325.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2009.2035361
  • Portet, F., Reiter, EB., Gatt, A., Hunter, J., Sripada, GS., Freer, Y. & Sykes, C. (2009). 'Automatic generation of textual summaries from neonatal intensive care data'. Artificial Intelligence, vol 173, no. 7-8, pp. 789-816.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.artint.2008.12.002
  • Reiter, EB. & Belz, A. (2009). 'An Investigation into the Validity of Some Metrics for Automatically Evaluating Natural Language Generation Systems'. Computational Linguistics, vol 35, no. 4, pp. 529-558.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1162/coli.2009.35.4.35405
  • Williams, S. & Reiter, EB. (2008). 'Generating basic skills reports for low-skilled readers'. Natural Language Engineering, vol 14, no. 4, pp. 495-535.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1017/S1351324908004725
  • Yu, J., Reiter, EB., Hunter, JRW. & Mellish, CS. (2007). 'Choosing the content of textual summaries of large time-series data sets'. Natural Language Engineering, vol 13, no. 1, pp. 25-49.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1017/S1351324905004031
  • Portet, F., Reiter, EB., Hunter, J. & Sripada, S. (2007). 'Automatic Generation of Textual Summaries from Neonatal Intensive Care Data'. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4594, pp. 227-236.
  • van Deemter, K., Horacek, H. & Reiter, E. (2006). 'Formal Issues in Natural Language Generation'. Research on Language and Computation, vol 4, no. 1, pp. 1-7.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1007/s11168-006-9008-9
  • Reiter, EB., Sripada, GS., Hunter, JRW., Yu, J. & Davy, I. (2005). 'Choosing Words in Computer-Generated Weather Forecasts'. Artificial Intelligence, vol 167, pp. 137-169.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.artint.2005.06.006
  • Roy, D. & Reiter, E. (2005). 'Connecting language to the world'. Artificial Intelligence, vol 167, pp. 112.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.artint.2005.06.002
  • Reiter, EB., Robertson, R. & Osman, LM. (2003). 'Lessons from a failure: Generating tailored smoking cessation letters'. Artificial Intelligence, vol 144, no. (1-2), pp. 41-58.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1016/S0004-3702(02)00370-3
  • Reiter, EB., Sripada, GS. & Robertson, R. (2003). 'Acquiring Correct Knowledge for Natural Language Generation'. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, vol 18, pp. 491-516.
  • Porteous, TH., Bond, CM., Robertson, R., Hannaford, PC. & Reiter, EB. (2003). 'Electronic transfer of prescription-related information: comparing views of patients, general practitioners, and pharmacists'. British Journal of General Practice, vol 53, no. 488, pp. 204-209.
  • Reiter, EB. & Sripada, GS. (2002). 'Human Variation and Lexical Choice'. Computational Linguistics, vol 28, pp. 545-553.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1162/089120102762671981
  • Reiter, E., Robertson, R. & Osman, L. (1999). 'Types of knowledge required to personalise smoking cessation letters'. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, vol 1620, pp. 389-399.
  • Reiter, EB. & DALE, R. (1997). 'Building Applied Natural-Language Generation Systems'. Natural Language Engineering, vol 3, pp. 57.
  • DALE, R. & REITER, E. (1995). 'COMPUTATIONAL INTERPRETATIONS OF THE GRICEAN MAXIMS IN THE GENERATION OF REFERRING EXPRESSIONS'. Cognitive Science, vol 19, no. 2, pp. 233-263.
  • REITER, E., MELLISH., C. & LEVINE, J. (1995). 'AUTOMATIC-GENERATION OF TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATION'. Applied Artificial Intelligence, vol 9, no. 3, pp. 259-287.
  • Reiter, EB. (1991). 'A New Model of Lexical Choice for Nouns'. Computational Intelligence, vol 7, pp. 240.

Scientific Reviews

  • Gatt, A., Portet, F., Reiter, E., Hunter, J., Mahamood, S., Moncur, W. & Sripada, S. (2009). 'From 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. 153-186.
    [Online] DOI: 10.3233/AIC-2009-0453

Editorials

  • Reiter, E. (2007). 'The Shrinking Horizons of Computational Linguistics'. Computational Linguistics, vol 33, no. 2, pp. 283-287.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1162/coli.2007.33.2.283

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings

Chapters

  • Reiter, EB. (2010). 'Natural Language Generation'. in A Clark, C Fox & S Lappin (eds), Handbook of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. John Wiley & Sons, pp. 574-598.
  • Reiter, EB. & Williams, SH. (2010). 'Generating Texts in Different Styles'. in S Argamon, K Burns & S Dubnov (eds), The Structure of Style: Algorithmic Approaches to Manner and Meaning. Springer, pp. 59-75.
  • Turner, RJ., Sripada, GS. & Reiter, EB. (2010). 'Generating Approximate Geographic Descriptions'. in E Krahmer & M Theune (eds), Empirical Methods in Natural Language Generation. Springer, pp. 121-140.
  • Hunter, J., Gatt, A., Portet, F., Reiter, EB. & Sripada, GS. (2008). 'Using Natural Language Generation Technology to Improve Information Flows in Intensive Care Units'. in M Ghallab, CD Spyropoulos, N Fakotakis & N Avouris (eds), ECAI 2008: Proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence. vol. 178, IOS Press, Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 678-682, 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2008), Patras, Greece, 21-25 July.
  • Mahamood, S., Reiter, EB. & Mellish, CS. (2008). 'Neonatal intensive care information for parents: An affective approach'. in IOEAEE (ed.), 21st IEEE Symposium on Computer-based Medical Systems. IEEE Computer Society, pp. 461-463, 21st IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, Jyvaskyla, Finland, 17-19 June.
  • Reiter, EB., Williams, S. & Crichton, L. (2006). 'Generating feedback reports for adults taking basic skills tests'. in A Macintosh, R Ellis & T Allen (eds), Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems XIII: Proceedings of AI2005, the Twenty-fifth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence. BCS Conference Series, Springer-Verlag, London, United Kingdom, pp. 50-63.
  • Reiter, E. & Sripada, S. (2004). 'Contextual influences on near-synonym choice'. in The Third International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG). Springer.
  • Yu, J., Reiter, E., Hunter, J. & Sripada, S. (2003). 'SumTime-Turbine: A knowledge-based system to communicate gas turbine time-series data'. in PWH Chung, C Hinde & M Ali (eds), 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. vol. 2718, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, pp. 379-384.
  • Yu, J., Hunter, J., Reiter, EB. & Sripada, S. (2003). 'Recognising visual patterns to communicate gas turbine time-series data'. in AL Macintosh, R Ellis & F Coenen (eds), Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems X: Proceedings of ES2002, the Twenty-Second SGAI International Conference on Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence. BCS Conference Series, Springer, London, UK, pp. 105-118.
  • Sripada, GS., Reiter, EB., Hunter, JRW. & Yu, J. (2003). 'Generating English Summaries of Time Series Data Using the Gricean Maxims'. in Proceedings of the Ninth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-2003). ACM Press, pp. 187-196.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1145/956750.956774
  • Sripada, GS., Reiter, EB., Hunter, JRW., Yu, J. & Davy, I. (2001). 'Modelling the Task of Summarising Time Series Data using KA Techniques'. in A Macintosh, M Moulton & A Preece (eds), Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems IX. Springer-Verlag, pp. 183-196.

Conference Proceedings

  • Mitchell, MA., Reiter, EB. & van Deemter, K. (in press). 'Typicality and Object Reference'. in Proc. of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Berlin.
  • Mitchell, M., van Deemter, K. & Reiter, EB. (2013). 'Generating Expressions that Refer to Visual Objects'. in Proc of the 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. Atlanta, Georgia.
  • Mahamood, S. & Reiter, EB. (2012). 'Working with Clinicians to Improve a Patient-Information NLG System'. in Proceedings of INLG 2012. Association for Computational Linguistics, Stroudsburg, PA, NLG 2012, 7th International Natural Language Generation Conference, Utica, IL, United States, 30-1 June.
  • Black, R., Reddington, J., Reiter, EB., waller, A. & Tintarev, N. (2011). 'Hands Busy, Eyes Busy: Generating Stories from Sensor Data for Automotive applications'. in Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces for Automotive Applications in conjunction with Intelligent User Interfaces.
  • Reiter, EB. (2011). 'Task-Based Evaluation of NLG Systems: Control vs Real-World Context'. in Proceedings of UCNLG+Eval 2011. Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 28-32, UCNLG+Eval: Language Generation and Evaluation Workshop, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 21 July.
  • Mahamood, S. & Reiter, EB. (2011). 'Generating Affective Natural Language for Parents of Neonatal Infants'. in Proceedings of ENLG-2011. Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 12-21.
  • Mitchell, MA., van Deemter, K. & Reiter, EB. (2011). 'Two Approaches for Generating Size Modifiers'. in Proceedings of ENLG-2011. Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 63-70.
  • Sambaraju, R., Reiter, EB., Logie, R., Andy, M., McVittie, C., Gatt, A. & Sykes, C. (2011). 'What is in a text and what does it do: Qualitative Evaluations of an NLG system - the BT-Nurse - using content analysis and discourse analysis'. in Proceedings of ENLG-2011. Association for Computational Linguistics.
  • Black, R., Waller, A., Tintarev, N., Reiter, EB. & Reddington, J. (2011). 'A Mobile Phone Based Personal Narrative System'. in Proceeding ASSETS '11 The proceedings of the 13th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility. ACM Press, New York, pp. 171-178.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1145/2049536.2049568
  • Mitchell, MA., van Deemter, K. & Reiter, EB. (2011). 'On the Use of Size Modifiers When Referring to Visible Objects'. in Proceedings of Cogsci 2011. CogSci 2011, Boston, MA, United States, 20-23 July.
  • Mitchell, MA., van Deemter, K. & Reiter, EB. (2011). 'Applying Machine Learning to the Choice of Size Modifiers'. in Cogsci 2011. Bridging the Gap between Computational, Empirical and Theoretical Approaches to Reference, Boston, MA, United States, 20 July.
  • Black, R., Reddington, J., Reiter, EB., Tintarev, N. & Waller, A. (2010). 'Using NLG and Sensors to Support Personal Narrative for Children with Complex Communication Needs'. in Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies in association with NAACL-HLT'10. Association for Computational Linguists, NAACL HLT 2010 Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies, Stroudsbourg, United States, 5 June.
  • Black, R., Reddington, J., Reiter, EB., Tintarev, N. & Waller, A. (2010). 'Using NLG and Sensors to Support Personal Narrative'. in Digital Economy All Hands Meeting - Digital Futures. Digital Economy All Hands Meeting - Digital Futures, Nottingham, United Kingdom, 11-21 October.
  • Mitchell, M., Van Deemter, K. & Reiter, E. (2010). 'Natural Reference to Objects in a Visual Domain'. in J Kelleher, B Mac Namee & I van der Sluis (eds), Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Natural Language Generation. Association for Computational Linguistics, Stroudsburg, PA, USA, pp. 95-104.
  • Gatt, A. & Reiter, EB. (2009). 'SimpleNLG: A realisation engine for practical applications'. in Proceedings of 12th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG2009). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 12th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Athens, Greece, 30-31 March.
  • Reiter, EB., Turner, R., Alm, N., Black, R., Dempster, M. & Waller, A. (2009). 'Using NLG to help language-impaired users tell stories and participate in social dialogues'. in Proceedings of ENLG-2009. The Association for Computational Linguistics.
  • Turner, R., Sripada, GS. & Reiter, EB. (2009). 'Generating Approximate Geographic Descriptions'. in Proceedings of the ENLG 2009 : 12th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation 30-31 March 2009. Athens, Greece, pp. 42-49.
  • Portet, F., Gatt, A., Hunter, J., Reiter, EB. & Sripada, GS. (2009). 'Le projet BabyTalk: génération de texte à partir de données hétérogènes pour la prise de décision en unité néonatale'. in TALN 2009.
  • Moncur, W., Masthoff, J. & Reiter, EB. (2009). 'Facilitating benign deceit in mediated communication'. in CHI09: Extended abstracts. New York, pp. 3383-3388.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1145/1520340.1520490
  • Moncur, W., Masthoff, J. & Reiter, EB. (2008). 'What Do You Want to Know?: Investigating the Information Requirements of Patient Supporters'. in Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2008). Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, no. 21, IEEE Computer Society, Loa Alamitos, CA, USA, 21st IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2008), Jyvaskyla, Finland, 17-19 June.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1109/CBMS.2008.36
  • Turner, R., Sripada, GS., Reiter, EB. & Davy, IP. (2008). 'Selecting the content of textual descriptions of geographically located events in spatio-temporal weather data'. in R Ellis, T Allen & M Petridis (eds), Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems XV: Proceedings of AI-2007, the Twenty-seventh SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, Godalming.
  • Hunter, J., Freer, Y., Gatt, A., Logie, R., McIntosh, N., van der Meulen, M., Portet, F., Reiter, EB., Sripada, GS. & Sykes, C. (2008). 'Summarising Complex ICU Data in Natural Language'. in Proceedings of AMIA-2008.
  • Lin, J., Mellish, CS. & Reiter, EB. (2008). 'Style Variation in Cooking Recipes'. in Proceedings of AISB08 Symposium on Style in Text.
  • Reiter, EB., Gatt, A., Portet, F. & van der Meulen, M. (2008). 'The Importance of Narrative and Other Lessons from an Evaluation of an NLG System that Summarises Clinical Data'. in Proceedings of INLG-2008.
  • Reiter, EB. & Williams, S. (2008). 'Three Approaches to Generating Texts in Different Styles'. in Proceedings of AISB08 Symposium on Style in Text.
  • Turner, R., Sripada, GS., Reiter, EB. & Davy, I. (2008). 'Building a Parallel Spatio-Temporal Data-Text Corpus for Summary Generation'. in Proceedings of LREC08 Workshop on Methodologies and Resources for Processing Spatial Language. LREC’2008, Marrakech, Morocco, 28-30 May.
  • Turner, R., Sripada, GS., Reiter, EB. & Davy, I. (2008). 'Using Spatial Reference Frames to Generate Grounded Textual Summaries of Georeferenced Data'. in Proceedings of INLG08. INLG 08: 5th International Natural Language Generation Conference, Ohio, United States, 12-14 June.
  • Williams, S. & Reiter, EB. (2008). 'SkillSum: basic skills screening with personalised, computer generated feedback'. in Proc of ICL08.
  • Mahamood, S., Reiter, EB. & Mellish, CS. (2007). 'A Comparsion of Hedged and Non-hedged NLG Texts'. in S Busemann (ed.), 11th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG'07): POSTER SESSION: Papers presented as posters. ACL, Morristown, NY, USA, pp. 155-158, 11th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG'07), Schloss Dagstuhl Computer Science Centre, Wadern, Germany, 17-20 June.
  • Reiter, EB. (2007). 'An Architecture for Data-to-Text Systems'. in S Busemann (ed.), Proceedings of the Eleventh European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG 07). Association for Computational Linguistics, Stroudsburg, pp. 97-104.
  • Sripada, GS., Reiter, EB., Davy, I. & Nilssen, K. (2004). 'Lessons from deploying NLG technology for marine weather forecast text generation'. in RL de Mántaras & L Saitta (eds), ECAI 2004: Proceedings of the 16th Eureopean Conference on Artificial Intelligence. vol. 110, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, vol. 110, IOS Press, Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 760-764, 16th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2004) including Prestigious Applicants of Intelligent Systems (PAIS 2004), Valencia, Spain, 22-27 August.
  • Sripada, SG., Reiter, EB., Hunter, J. & Yu, J. (2003). 'Segmenting time series for weather forecasting'. in A Macintosh, R Ellis & F Coenen (eds), Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems X. Springer, pp. 193-206, Twenty-second SGAI International Conference on Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 1 December.
  • Reiter, EB., Robertson, R., Lennox, AS. & Osman, L. (2001). 'Using a randomised controlled clinical trial to evaluate an NLG system'. in 39TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS, PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONFERENCE. Association for Computational Linguistics, SOMERSET, pp. 434-441.
  • Yu, J., Hunter, J., Reiter, EB. & Sripada, S. (2001). 'An approach to generating summaries of time series data in the gas turbine domain'. in 2001 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES ON INFO-TECH AND INFO-NET PROCEEDINGS, CONFERENCE A-G. IEEE Press, NEW YORK, pp. C44-C51.

Contributions to Conferences

Papers

  • Dempster, M., Alm, N. & Reiter, EB. (2010). 'Automatic generation of conversational utterances and narrative for Augmentative and Alternative Communication: a prototype system'. Paper presented at NAACLL HLT 2010 Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies, Los Angeles, United States, 1/06/10, pp. 10-18.
  • Moncur, W., Mahamood, S., Reiter, E. & Freer, Y. (2009). 'Involving healthcare consumers in knowledge acquisition for virtual healthcare'. Paper presented at Virtual Healthcare Interaction 2009 (AAAI Fall Symposium Series), Washington D.C., United States, 5/11/09 - 7/11/09,.

Abstracts

Books and Reports

Books

  • Reiter, EB. & DALE, R. (2000). 'Building Natural-Language Generation Systems'. Cambridge University Press.

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