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
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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Ask the experts: sourcing a high-quality nutrition counseling dataset through Human-AI collaboration
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsImproving Factual Accuracy of Neural Table-to-Text Output by Addressing Input Problems in ToTTo
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsCommon Flaws in Running Human Evaluation Experiments in NLP
Computational Linguistics, vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 795–805Contributions to Journals: ArticlesLinguistically Communicating Uncertainty in Patient-Facing Risk Prediction Models
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsSmartphone-based extendable telematic data collection app
Software Impacts, vol. 19, 100601Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEvaluation of Human-Understandability of Global Model Explanations Using Decision Tree
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: 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
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Natural Language Generation
Springer. 202 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksEvaluation of Human-Understandability of Global Model Explanations using Decision Tree
Working Papers: Preprint Papers- [ONLINE] http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.09917v1
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- [ONLINE] https://xai3ecai2023.github.io/
Enhancing Factualness and Controllability of Data-to-Text Generation via Data Views and Constraints
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsSmart Selection of Useful Insights from Wearables
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSPW59220.2023.10193140
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Non-Repeatable Experiments and Non-Reproducible Results: The Reproducibility Crisis in Human Evaluation in NLP
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 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersInfluence of context on users’ views about explanations for decision-tree predictions
Computer Speech & Language, vol. 81, 101483Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEvaluating factual accuracy in complex data-to-text
Computer Speech & Language, vol. 80, 101482Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMissing Information, Unresponsive Authors, Experimental Flaws: The Impossibility of Assessing the Reproducibility of Previous Human Evaluations in NLP
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsAre Experts Needed?: On Human Evaluation of Counselling Reflection Generation
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsConsultation Checklists: Standardising the Human Evaluation of Medical Note Generation
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsError Analysis of ToTTo Table-to-Text Neural NLG Models
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsUser-Driven Research of Medical Note Generation Software
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsComparing informativeness of an NLG chatbot vs graphical app in diet-information domain
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsDrivingBeacon: Driving Behaviour Change Support System Considering Mobile Use and Geo-information
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsThe 2022 ReproGen Shared Task on Reproducibility of Evaluations in NLG: Overview and Results
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsThe Accuracy Evaluation Shared Task as a Retrospective Reproduction Study
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsBeyond calories: evaluating how tailored communication reduces emotional load in diet-coaching
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.humeval-1.5
Human Evaluation and Correlation with Automatic Metrics in Consultation Note Generation
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsAnno-Mi: A dataset of expert- annotated counselling dialogues
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsData Augmentation for Reliability and Fairness in Counselling Quality Classification
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] https://github.com/hslu-abiz/sdaih22/blob/gh-pages/preprints/Data%20Augmentation%20for%20Reliability%20and%20Fairness%20in%20Counselling%20Quality%20Classification%20(slides).pdf
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/21803/1/Kumar_etal_Data_Augmentation_For_VoR.pdf
- [ONLINE] http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=159833
Explaining Decision-Tree Predictions by Addressing Potential Conflicts between Predictions and Plausible Expectations
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsGeneration Challenges: Results of the Accuracy Evaluation Shared Task
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsThe ReproGen Shared Task on Reproducibility of Human Evaluations in NLG: Overview and Results
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsUnaddressed challenges in persuasive dieting chatbots
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3450614.3463602
A Systematic Review of Reproducibility Research in Natural Language Processing
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsA preliminary study on evaluating Consultation Notes with Post-Editing
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsTowards objectively evaluating the quality of generated medical summaries
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsInteractive Natural Language Technology for Explainable Artificial Intelligence
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73959-1_5
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Neural Scoring of Logical Inferences from Data using Feedback
International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence IJIMAI, vol. 6, no. 5, pp. 90-99Contributions to Journals: ArticlesExplaining Bayesian Networks in Natural Language: State of the Art andChallenges
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsA Gold Standard Methodology for Evaluating Accuracy in Data-To-Text Systems
Contributions to Conferences: PapersArabic NLG Language Functions
Contributions to Conferences: PapersReproGen: Proposal for a Shared Task on Reproducibility of Human Evaluations in NLG
Contributions to Conferences: PapersShared Task on Evaluating Accuracy
Contributions to Conferences: PapersHow are you?: Introducing stress-based text tailoring
Contributions to Conferences: PapersIterative Neural Scoring of Validated Insight Candidates
Contributions to Conferences: PapersSportSett: Basketball - A robust and maintainable dataset for Natural Language Generation
Contributions to Conferences: PapersTowards a Generalised Framework for Behaviour Insight Mining
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsA NLG framework for user tailoring and profiling in healthcare
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A System for Automatic English Text Expansion
IEEE Access, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 123320-123333Contributions to Journals: ArticlesNatural Language Generation Challenges for Explainable AI
Contributions to Conferences: PapersMaking Effective Use of Healthcare Data Using Data-to-Text Technology
Data Science for Healthcare: Methodologies and Applications. Consoli, S., Recupero, D. R., Petkovic, M. (eds.). Springer, pp. 119-145, 27 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05249-2_4
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Fuzzy-Based Language Grounding of Geographical References: From Writers to Readers
International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 970 - 983Contributions to Journals: ArticlesLying and computational linguistics
The Oxford Handbook of Lying. Meibauer, J. (ed.). Oxford University PressChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)Generating Summaries of Sets of Consumer Products: Learning from Experiments
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsMeteorologists and Students: A resource for language grounding of geographical descriptors
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsA Structured Review of the Validity of BLEU
Computational Linguistics, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 393-401Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSaferDrive: An NLG-based behaviour change support system for drivers
Natural Language Engineering, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 551-588Contributions to Journals: ArticlesData quality in reasoning
Contributions to Journals: Conference ArticlesComprehension Driven Document Planning in Natural Language Generation Systems
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsModelado borroso de referencias geograficas textuales sobre datos de expertos
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsAn Exploratory Study on the Benefits of using Natural Language for Explaining Fuzzy Rule-based Systems
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2017.8015489
Natural Language Generation with Computational Intelligence
IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 8-9Contributions to Journals: Editorials- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/MCI.2017.2708919
A Commercial Perspective on Reference
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W17-3519
An Empirical Approach for Modeling Fuzzy Geographical Descriptors
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2017.8015527
Textually Summarising Incomplete Data
Contributions to Conferences: PapersPersonal Storytelling: Using Natural Language Generation for Children with Complex Communication Needs, in the Wild...
International Journal of Human Computer Studies, vol. 92-93, pp. 1-16Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2016.04.005
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/9119/1/HWST_IJHCS_preprint.pdf
MIME: pre-hospital technology for managing information in medical emergencies
Innovative Solutions in Remote Healthcare - 'Rethinking Remote' conference, 4089Contributions to Journals: AbstractsAbsolute and Relative Properties in Geographic Referring Expressions
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsNatural Language Generation and Fuzzy Sets: An Exploratory Study on Geographical Referring Expression Generation
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2016.7737740
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/8489/1/FuzzyGREGeneration_posting.pdf
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Creating Textual Driver Feedback from Telemetric Data
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W15/W15-4726.pdf
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W15-4726
- [ONLINE] http://enlg2015.imag.fr/
Designing an Algorithm for Generating Named Spatial References
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] https://aclweb.org/anthology/W15-4723
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W15-4723
- [ONLINE] http://enlg2015.imag.fr/
Using Technology to Enhance Rural Resilience in Pre-hospital Emergencies
Scottish Geographical Journal, vol. 131, no. 3-4, pp. 194-200Contributions to Journals: ArticlesNatural language generation for augmentative and assistive technologies
Natural Language Generation in Interactive Systems. Stent, A., Bangalore, S. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, pp. 252-277, 26 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511844492.011
Providing adaptive health updates across the personal social network
Human-Computer Interaction, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 256-309Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMIME: NLG in pre-hospital care
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsMIME- NLG Support for Complex and Unstable Pre-hospital Emergencies
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsTypicality and Object Reference
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsDesigning a Mobile Device for Pre-hospital Care
Contributions to Conferences: Papers- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/2860/1/iHCI.pdf
Generating Expressions that Refer to Visible Objects
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N13-1137
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/10315/1/N13_1137.pdf
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Generating Expressions that Refer to Visual Objects
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] http://naacl2013.naacl.org/
Use of technology in collection and communication of pre-hospital data by rural First Responders
Scottish School of Primary CareContributions to Conferences: PostersAutomatic generation of natural language nursing shift summaries in neonatal intensive care: BT-Nurse
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, vol. 56, no. 3, pp. 157-172Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artmed.2012.09.002
Supporting Personal Narrative for Children with Complex Communication Needs
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, vol. 19, no. 2, 15Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2240156.2240163
Working with Clinicians to Improve a Patient-Information NLG System
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsGENEVAL: A proposal for shared-task evaluation in NLG
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Using NLG to Manage Information in Medical Emergencies
Digital EngagementContributions to Conferences: AbstractsBT-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. 621-624Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000193
A Mobile Phone Based Personal Narrative System
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2049536.2049568
Applying Machine Learning to the Choice of Size Modifiers
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsGenerating Affective Natural Language for Parents of Neonatal Infants
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsHands Busy, Eyes Busy: Generating Stories from Sensor Data for Automotive applications
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsOn the Use of Size Modifiers When Referring to Visible Objects
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsTask-Based Evaluation of NLG Systems: Control vs Real-World Context
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsTwo Approaches for Generating Size Modifiers
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsWhat is in a text and what does it do: Qualitative Evaluations of an NLG system - the BT-Nurse - using content analysis and discourse analysis
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsUsing NLG and sensors to support personal narrative for children with complex communication needs
Digital Economy All Hands Meeting - Digital Futures, pp. 1Contributions to Conferences: PostersGenerating texts in different styles
The Structure of Style: Algorithmic Approaches to Manner and Meaning. Argamon, S., Burns, K., Dubnov, S. (eds.). Springer, pp. 59-75, 19 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersGenerating approximate geographic descriptions
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Generation: Data-oriented Methods and Empirical Evaluation. Krahmer, E., Theune, M. (eds.). Springer, pp. 121-140, 20 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15573-4_7
Natural language generation
Handbook of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. Clark, A., Fox, C., Lappin, S. (eds.). John Wiley & Sons, pp. 574-598, 25 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersNatural Language Generation
The Handbook of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. WILEY-BLACKWELL, pp. 574-598, 25 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444324044.ch20
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Automatic generation of conversational utterances and narrative for Augmentative and Alternative Communication: a prototype system
Contributions to Conferences: PapersModeling 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. 319-325Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TITB.2009.2035361
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. 379-387Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3414/ME0613