Thrilled to get this paper out, a great collaboration with UCL VoCoLab, Angus Addlesee and Verena Rieser on how self-bias and sense of agency over a voice is altered when that voice is used to represent oneself in a social interaction.

Will you be in #Edinburgh this May? Join us for a 🍺 and some cool science on technical bugs, innovative healthcare, and friendly robots! Pint of Science UK #pint24 #TechMeOut

Our speakers: Davide Michieletto,Jo Sadler,Luke McNally, Leonardo Castorina,Caroline Morris,Stefano Albrecht (UoE Agents Group),Angus Addlesee

ICYMI: #ConversationalAI researcher Angus Addlesee was awarded Best Demo prize at #EACL2024 🏆

The winning paper delves into the #LLM being advanced for #SocialRobots , enabling them to assist patients in hospital memory clinics 🧠

aclanthology.org/2024.eacl-demo…

Oliver Lemon ( @[email protected] ) HWU Human Robot Interaction

We won Best Demo Paper! at #EACL2024 for multi-person human-robot conversation using Generative AI / LLMs Interaction Lab The National Robotarium Edinburgh Robotics Heriot-Watt University #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #Conversational_AI #AI aclanthology.org/2024.eacl-demo…

Multi-party Multimodal Conversations Between Patients, Their Companions, and a Social Robot in a Hospital Memory Clinic

Angus Addlesee, N. Cherakara, N. Nelson, D.H. Garcia, N. Gunson, W. Sieińska, C. Dondrup, O. Lemon

aclanthology.org/2024.eacl-demo…

Best Demo Award #eacl2024

I am delighted to announce that we won the 'Best Demo Award' at #EACL2024 🎉

It can be found here: aclanthology.org/2024.eacl-demo…

Thanks eaclmeeting!

Authors: Angus Addlesee, Neeraj Cherakara, Nivan Nelson, Daniel Hernández G, Nancie Gunson, Weronika Sieińska, Christian Dondrup and Oliver Lemon ( @[email protected] )

Interaction Lab

Academic co-lead at the #NationalRobotarium Prof. Oliver Lemon ( @[email protected] ) & Heriot-Watt University RA Angus Addlesee are speaking at the European Chatbot and Conversational AI summit, happening 13-14 March Dynamic Earth 🤖

Get your 🎟️at:
🔗theeuropeanchatbot.com/book-tickect/

#AI #Chatbots #HelpingPeople

Generative AI for robotics: SPRING project featured in TIME magazine - thank you Spring H2020 Daniel Hernández G
Angus Addlesee Nancie Gunson
Weronika Sieińska, Marta Romeo, Christian Dondrup
The National Robotarium Edinburgh Robotics
time.com/6590440/robots…

The National Robotarium Oliver Lemon ( @[email protected] ) HWUNews DDI Heriot-Watt University ITT Research Group Well done to the researchers!!

Angus Addlesee, Angus Addlesee
Nancie Gunson, Nancie Gunson
Daniel Hernández García
Weronika Sieińska
Marta Romeo
Christian Dondrup, Christian Dondrup
Oliver Lemon, Oliver Lemon ( @[email protected] )

And special thanks to our interns:
Neeraj Cherakara, Neeraj Cherakara
Nivan Nelson

Fantastic thread (thank you Angus Addlesee ) on our lab’s research highlights this year The National Robotarium Edinburgh Robotics Heriot-Watt University Amazon Science #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #Conversational_AI #AI #AlexaPrize Spring H2020 Alana

This was fun to curate! Check out our work through iLab Wrapped Interaction Lab

I have some fantastic colleagues 🎉

The first iLab paper of 2023 was at #IWSDS2023 !

'Data Collection for Multi-party Task-based Dialogue in Social Robotics'

By Angus Addlesee, Weronika Sieińska, Nancie Gunson, Daniel Hernandez Garcia, Christian Dondrup & Oliver Lemon ( @[email protected] )

With Spring H2020 & PAL Robotics

drive.google.com/file/d/1gUsMOl…

The WTF workshop at ACM CUI 2024

'Building for Speech: Designing the Next Generation of Social Robots for Audio Interaction' by Angus Addlesee Yiannis Papaioannou and Oliver Lemon ( @[email protected] )

We highlight critical problems that prevent spoken interactions with social robots.

arxiv.org/abs/2311.01146

Finally, ACM CUI 2024 !

'Understanding and Answering Incomplete Questions' by Angus Addlesee and Marco Damonte at Amazon Science

We artificially interrupted 21k questions paired with their #SPARQL queries targeting Wikidata to recover from long mid-utterance pauses

amazon.science/publications/u…

Also at SIGdial

'Multi-Party Goal Tracking With LLMs: Comparing Pre-training, Fine-tuning, and Prompt Engineering' by Angus Addlesee , Weronika Sieińska, Nancie Gunson, Daniel Hernandez Garcia, Christian Dondrup & Oliver Lemon ( @[email protected] )

Establishing the MP goal-tracking task

aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1…

Moving from robots to INTERSPEECH 2024

'Understanding Disrupted Sentences Using Underspecified Abstract Meaning Representation' by Angus Addlesee and Marco Damonte with Amazon Science

We explore whether semantic parsing can improve voice accessibility!

amazon.science/publications/u…

with huge thanks for work of Angus Addlesee Christian Dondrup Daniel Hernandez Neeraj Cherakara Nancie Gunson Weronika Sieinska, Marta Romeo, Sabrina Chiesurin Karin Sevegnani vevake Balaraman Yannis Konstas Yiannis Papaioannou Arash Eshghi Alessandro Suglia @joselpart Katie Baker Claudio Greco Marco Sobrevilla

We have deployed an LLM-based dialogue system in a hospital in Paris 🎉🎉

It is embodied by the ARI robot, and the next improvements are already ongoing. Exciting things to come!