Congrats to our team for getting 3 papers accepted: 2x #ACL2023 Findings ACL 2025 "The Dangers of trusting Stochastic Parrots" "Adversarial Robustness of Visual Dialog" 1x #IJCAI2023 IJCAIconf "Safely Assist People with Vision Impairment".

Our CTO Yiannis Papaioannou Introducing Alana's Visual Dialogue Companion! Our groundbreaking AI empowers the Blind and Visually Impaired community for independent living. Early access available soon! #AI #Accessibility #Innovation RNIB RNIB Scotland #InclusiveDesign

Three interesting new research papers you should know about from Alana AI at #ACL2023NLP — and where you can find more details if you’re not at the conference #ACL2023NLP #Research #NLP

I am feeling glad and honored to start as a territorial representative of Norway for Regional Studies Association Regional Studies Association. So if you want to know more about RSA and it’s initiatives and you are located in Norway, do not hesitate to contact me! Research @ Mohn Centre HVL Norway @hvl_no

Here's our SIGDIAL 2023 paper exploring conversational AI for multiple people using LLMs Spring H2020 @NRobotarium Alana #NLProc #HRI #Conversational_AI #AI

Congratulations to our team on winning the Best Short Paper Award! SIGdial You can find the paper here: arxiv.org/pdf/2307.15554…

Talking about generative AI for healthcare Royal Society of Edinburgh today: “Transforming Scottish Healthcare: The role of data and technology” #GenAI @NRobotarium Alana RES-Q+ Spring H2020 #HRI rse.org.uk/whats-on/event…

Our Co-Founder and CAIO Professor Oliver Lemon is speaking at the Language Sciences Annual Symposium on 16 Nov.🗓️ Oliver will discuss the effects of conversations with #robots and #AIs on human wellbeing. languagesciences.cam.ac.uk/news/annual-sy…

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

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 Establishing the MP goal-tracking task aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1…

Generative AI for robotics and healthcare: healthandcare.scot wrote one of the best recent articles about the SPRING project Spring H2020 @NRobotarium Edinburgh Robotics healthandcare.scot/stories/3718/s…

Upcoming talk: “Translating Generative AI from Research to Real-world Use Cases at #EUCHATBOT Interaction Lab @NRobotarium Edinburgh Robotics Heriot-Watt University theeuropeanchatbot.com/agenda-2024/

Our new demo paper on multi-person conversation using Generative AI / LLMs Interaction Lab @NRobotarium Edinburgh Robotics Heriot-Watt University #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #Conversational_AI #AI dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…

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 Interaction Lab

🌟Best Thesis Awardee announcement🌟 Congratulations to Marco Gaido!! See you at #EAMT2024 for your best thesis presentation! #NLProc #MT #MachineTranslation

Exciting news! We are now working with University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust to help clinicians quickly access and search the latest medical guidelines. Faster, smarter medical support is coming! @NHS

Excited to announce that the Embodied AI team at Alana developed AlanaVLM, a new foundation model for egocentric video understanding. Best open-weight model which rivals GPT-4V on spatial reasoning questions in OpenEQA. Thread below! arxiv.org/abs/2406.13807 #AI #NLProc

🎉 First paper acceptance of the year at NAACL NAACL HLT 2025 (Main)! #NAACL2025 ✨"Language Model Council: Democratically Benchmarking Foundation Models on Highly Subjective Tasks."✨ with my amazing coauthors Justin Zhao, Benjie Genchel and Amanda Cercas Curry 🧵👇

Excited to welcome JOCO as an Alana partner. Their new AI agent is already delivering fast, effective support to thousands of couriers across New York. Read the story: alanaai.com/post/how-joco-…

Last Friday marked my last day at Heriot-Watt University. I'll always be grateful for the work completed and strong relationships built there. Now I’m excited to share that I'm starting a new role as Lecturer in Embodied NLP in the The University of Edinburgh EdinburghNLP! #EmbodiedAI #GenAI