Professor Ehud Reiter
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 summer 2026. For more information about me, please see my personal webpage ehudreiter.com
I was Chief Scientist at Arria NLG (a spinout I cofounded in 2010) for many years, but now I just work at Aberdeen Uni.
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
- Adarsa Sivaprasad
- Mengxuan Sun
- Barkavi Sundararajan
- Iniakpokeikiye Thompson
- Yujun Wang
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
- 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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Evolving Stances on Reproducibility: A Longitudinal Study of NLP and ML Researchers' Views and Experience of Reproducibility
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsInput Matters: Evaluating Input Structure's Impact on LLM Summaries of Sports Play-by-Play
Contributions to Conferences: PapersThe role of natural language processing in improving cancer care: A scoping review with narrative synthesis
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, vol. 168, 103227Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCausalGraphBench: a Benchmark for Evaluating Language Models capabilities of Causal Graph discovery
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsSPHERE: An Evaluation Card for Human-AI Systems
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsAn End-to-End System for Culturally-Attuned Driving Feedback using a Dual-Component NLG Engine
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsMobile Phone Sensor-based Nigerian Driving Dataset to Detect Alcohol-influenced Behaviours
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsPatient-Centred Explainability in IVF Outcome Prediction
Working Papers: Working Papers- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2506.18760
We Should Evaluate Real-World Impact
Computational LinguisticsContributions to Journals: ArticlesReusability of Bayesian Networks case studies: a survey
Applied Intelligence, vol. 55, no. 4, 417Contributions to Journals: ArticlesScalability of Bayesian Network Structure Elicitation with Large Language Models: a Novel Methodology and Comparative Analysis
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsAsk the experts: sourcing a high-quality nutrition counseling dataset through Human-AI collaboration
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsNatural Language Generation
Springer. 202 pagesBooks and Reports: Books- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-68582-8
Improving 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: ArticlesEXPLANATIONS OF FACTORS INFLUENCING HARSH BRAKING AND PRESENTATION STYLES
Contributions to Conferences: Oral PresentationsLinguistically 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: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.simpa.2023.100601
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Evaluation 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
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Explaining Bayesian Networks in Natural Language using Factor Arguments: Evaluation in the medical domain
Contributions to Conferences: PapersEvaluation of Human-Understandability of Global Model Explanations using Decision Tree
Working Papers: Preprint Papers- [ONLINE] http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.09917v1
- [ONLINE] https://ecai2023.eu/
- [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: Articles