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Attributing Response to Context: A Jensen-Shannon Divergence Driven Mechanistic Study of Context Attribution in Retrieval-Augmented Generation

2026 - Accepted/In press

Li, R., Chen, C., Hu, Y., Gao, Y., Wang, X., Yilmaz, E.

Contributions to Conferences: Papers

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2505.16415

DFWe: Efficient Knowledge Distillation of Fine-tuned Whisper Encoder for Speech Emotion Recognition

2026 - E-pub ahead of print

Ma, Y., Jiang, X., Sang, J., Li, R.

Pattern Recognition

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Online: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031320326001263
Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.113161

Behind the Scenes: Mechanistic Interpretability of LoRA-adapted Whisper for Speech Emotion Recognition

2026 - Accepted/In press

Ma, Y., Lu, X., Sang, J., Jiang, X., Li, R.

Contributions to Conferences: Papers

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2509.08454

We Should Evaluate Real-World Impact

2025

Reiter, E.

Computational Linguistics, vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 1419-1431

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1162/COLI.a.18
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/81172c7e-a840-4ebc-a35f-3755ee8914ca/download

FADERec: Fine-Grained Attribute Distillation Enhanced by Collaborative Fusion for LLM-Based Recommendation

2025

Xu, M., Li, R., Deng, H., Zeng, B.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-95-3343-5_45
Additional Links: Springer ShareIt! Link

Error Correction in Radiology Reports: A Knowledge Distillation-Based Multi-Stage Framework

2025 - Accepted/In press

Wu, J., Wu, Z., Li, R., Chen, T., Hasan, A., Kim, Y., Cheung, J. P., Zhang, T., Wu, H.

Contributions to Conferences: Papers

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2406.15045

Evolving Stances on Reproducibility: A Longitudinal Study of NLP and ML Researchers' Views and Experience of Reproducibility

2025

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

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Online: https://aclanthology.org/2025.findings-emnlp.1404/
Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.findings-emnlp.1404
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/b8a7b851-616d-44f6-94c6-7f0543f23527/download

Leveraging Large Language Models Knowledge Enhancement Dual-Stage Fine-Tuning Framework for Recommendation

2025

Zeng, B., Shi, H., Li, Y., Li, R., Deng, H.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-9434-8_26
Additional Links: Read only PDF provided by the Springer Nature SharedIt content-sharing initiative

Explaining Bayesian Networks Reasoning to the General Public: Insights from the User Study

2025

Babakov, N., Reiter, E., Bugarín, A.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Online: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-4061/paper3.pdf
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Evaluation of Explainable AI by Medical Experts: a Survey of the Existing Approaches

2025

Babakov, N., Rezgova, E., Reiter, E., Bugarín, A.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Online: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-4059/paper8.pdf
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Towards deployment-centric multimodal AI beyond vision and language

2025

Liu, X., Zhang, J., Zhou, S., van der Plas, T. L., Vijayaraghavan, A., Grishina, A., Zhuang, M., Schofield, D., Tomlinson, C., Wang, Y., Li, R., van Zeeland, L., Tabakhi, S., Demeocq, C., Li, X., Das, A., Timmerman, O., Baldwin-McDonald, T., Wu, J., Bai, P., Al Sahili, Z., Alwazzan, O., Do, T. N., Suvon, M. N. I., Wang, A., Cipolina-Kun, L., Moretti, L. A., Farndale, L., Jain, N., Efremova, N., Ge, Y., Varela, M., Lam, H., Celiktutan, O., Evans, B. R., Coca-Castro, A., Wu, H., Abdallah, Z. S., Chen, C., Danchev, V., Tkachenko, N., Lu, L., Zhu, T., Slabaugh, G. G., Moore, R. K., Cheung, W. K., Charlton, P. H., Lu, H.

Nature Machine Intelligence, vol. 7, no. 10, pp. 1612-1624

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-025-01116-5
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Input Matters: Evaluating Input Structure's Impact on LLM Summaries of Sports Play-by-Play

2025 - Accepted/In press

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

Contributions to Conferences: Papers

The role of natural language processing in improving cancer care: A scoping review with narrative synthesis

2025

Sun, M., Reiter, E., Duncan, L., Adam, R.

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, vol. 168, 103227

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Online: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0933365725001629
Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artmed.2025.103227
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CausalGraphBench: a Benchmark for Evaluating Language Models capabilities of Causal Graph discovery

2025

Babakov, N., Reiter, E., Bugarín, A.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.acl-srw.16
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SPHERE: An Evaluation Card for Human-AI Systems

2025

Zhao, D., Ma, Q., Zhao, X., Si, C., Yang, C., Louie, R., Reiter, E., Yang, D., Wu, T.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.findings-acl.70
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Anchored Answers: Unravelling Positional Bias in GPT-2's Multiple-Choice Questions

2025

Li, R., Gao, Y.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Online: https://aclanthology.org/2025.findings-acl.124/
Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.findings-acl.124
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Marco-Bench-MIF: On Multilingual Instruction-Following Capability of Large Language

2025

Zeng, B., Lyu, C., Liu, S., Zeng, M., Wu, M., Ni, X., Shi, T., Zhao, Y., Liu, Y., Zhu, C., Li, R., Geng, J., Li, Q., Tong, Y., Wang, L., Luo, W., Zhang, K.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Online: https://aclanthology.org/2025.acl-long.1172/
Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.acl-long.1172
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On the role of explanations in machine learning prediction of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis

2025 - E-pub ahead of print

Babakov, N., Rezgova, E., Reiter, E., Bugarín-Diz, A.

Progress in Artificial Intelligence

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13748-025-00387-8

An End-to-End System for Culturally-Attuned Driving Feedback using a Dual-Component NLG Engine

2025 - Accepted/In press

Thompson, I. P., Yi, D., Reiter, E.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Mobile Phone Sensor-based Nigerian Driving Dataset to Detect Alcohol-influenced Behaviours

2025 - Accepted/In press

Thompson, I. P., Yi, D., Reiter, E.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/60e373a7-17ba-43a9-8063-80e438c79f1e/download

Patient-Centred Explainability in IVF Outcome Prediction

2025

Sivaprasad, A., Reiter, E., McLernon, D., Tintarev, N., Bhattacharya, S., Oren, N.

Working Papers and Discussion Papers: Working Papers

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2506.18760

Adaptive Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Conversational Systems

2025

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

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Online: https://aclanthology.org/2025.findings-naacl.30/
Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.findings-naacl.30
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Reusability of Bayesian Networks case studies: a survey

2025

Babakov, N., Sivaprasad, A., Reiter, E., Bugarín-Diz, A.

Applied Intelligence, vol. 55, no. 4, 417

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-025-06289-5
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Stereotypical Bias Amplification, and Reversal, in an Experimental Model of Human Interaction with Generative AI

2025

Allan, K., Azcona, J., Sripada, S., Leontidis, G., Sutherland, C., Phillips, L., Martin, D.

Royal Society Open Science, 241472

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/7ZD3S
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Modelling and feedback in the context of early questions

2025 - Unpublished

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

PsyArXiv Preprints (Preprint). 6 pages.

Other Contributions: Other Contributions

Online: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/a48v6_v1
Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/a48v6_v1
Open Access: https://pure.abdn.ac.uk/ws/files/302608547/HeimBalaSinclair_27Mar2025_Modelling_and_feedback_in_the_context_of_early_questions.pdf