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

  • 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 Patients 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.
  • 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, 21/07/08.
  • 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, 17/06/08.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Conference Proceedings

  • Black, R., Reddington, J., Reiter, EB., waller, A. & Tintarev, N. (2011). 'Hands Busy, Eyes Busy: Generating Stories from Sensor Data for Automotive applications'. 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'. Proceedings of UCNLG+Eval 2011 Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 28-32, UCNLG+Eval: Language Generation and Evaluation Workshop, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 21/07/11.
  • Mahamood, S. & Reiter, EB. (2011). 'Generating Affective Natural Language for Parents of Neonatal Infants'. 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'. 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'. 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'. 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'. Proceedings of Cogsci 2011 CogSci 2011, Boston, MA, United States, 20/07/11.
  • Mitchell, MA., van Deemter, K. & Reiter, EB. (2011). 'Applying Machine Learning to the Choice of Size Modifiers'. Cogsci 2011 Bridging the Gap between Computational, Empirical and Theoretical Approaches to Reference, Boston, MA, United States, 20/07/11.
  • 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'. 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, 5/06/10.
  • Black, R., Reddington, J., Reiter, EB., Tintarev, N. & Waller, A. (2010). 'Using NLG and Sensors to Support Personal Narrative'. Digital Economy All Hands Meeting - Digital Futures Digital Economy All Hands Meeting - Digital Futures, Nottingham, United Kingdom, 11/10/10.
  • 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'. Proceedings of ENLG-2009.
  • 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'. Proceedings of ENLG-2009.
  • Turner, R., Sripada, GS. & Reiter, EB. (2009). 'Generating Approximate Geographic Descriptions'. 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'. TALN 2009.
  • Moncur, W., Masthoff, J. & Reiter, EB. (2009). 'Facilitating benign deceit in mediated communication'. 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'. 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, 17/06/08.
    [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'. APPLICATIONS AND INNOVATIONS IN INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS XV SPRINGER-VERLAG LONDON LTD, 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'. Proceedings of AMIA-2008.
  • Lin, J., Mellish, CS. & Reiter, EB. (2008). 'Style Variation in Cooking Recipes'. 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'. Proceedings of INLG-2008.
  • Reiter, EB. & Williams, S. (2008). 'Three Approaches to Generating Texts in Different Styles'. 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'. Proceedings of LREC08 Workshop on Methodologies and Resources for Processing Spatial Language.
  • Turner, R., Sripada, GS., Reiter, EB. & Davy, I. (2008). 'Using Spatial Reference Frames to Generate Grounded Textual Summaries of Georeferenced Data'. Proceedings of INLG08.
  • Williams, S. & Reiter, EB. (2008). 'SkillSum: basic skills screening with personalised, computer generated feedback'. 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, 17/06/07.
  • 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, SG., 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), Proceedings of the 16th Eureopean Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI'2004: Including Prestigious Applicants of Intelligent Systems, PAIS 2004, Valencia, Spain, August 22-27, 2004 vol. 110, IOS Press, Amsterdam, pp. 760-764.
  • 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, 1/12/02.
  • Reiter, EB., Robertson, R., Lennox, AS. & Osman, L. (2001). 'Using a randomised controlled clinical trial to evaluate an NLG system'. 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'. 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

Other Contributions

  • Sripada, GS., Reiter, EB., Davy, I. & Nilssen, K. (2004). 'Lessons from Deploying NLG Technology for Marine Weather Forecast Text Generation'.
  • Sripada, GS., Reiter, EB., Hunter, JRW. & Yu, J. (2003). 'Generating English Summaries of Time Series Data Using the Gricean Maxims'.
  • Yu, J., Hunter, JRW., Reiter, EB. & Sripada, GS. (2002). 'Recognising Visual Patterns to Communicate Gas Turbine Time Series Data'.
  • Sripada, GS., Reiter, EB., Hunter, JRW., Yu, J. & Davy, I. (2001). 'Modelling the Task of Summarising Time Series Data using KA Techniques'.

Books and Reports

Books

  • Reiter, E. & Sripada, S. (2004). 'Contextual influences on near-synonym choice'. Unknown Publisher.
  • Reiter, EB. & DALE, R. (2000). 'Building Natural-Language Generation Systems'. Cambridge University Press.

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