no code implementations • EMNLP 2021 • Amanda Cercas Curry, Gavin Abercrombie, Verena Rieser
We find that the distribution of abuse is vastly different compared to other commonly used datasets, with more sexually tinted aggression towards the virtual persona of these systems.
no code implementations • GeBNLP (COLING) 2020 • Amanda Cercas Curry, Judy Robertson, Verena Rieser
We then outline a multi-disciplinary project of how we plan to address the complex question of gender and stereotyping in digital assistants.
1 code implementation • 16 May 2023 • Gavin Abercrombie, Amanda Cercas Curry, Tanvi Dinkar, Zeerak Talat
Automated dialogue or conversational systems are anthropomorphised by developers and personified by users.
no code implementations • 21 Dec 2022 • Alba Curry, Amanda Cercas Curry
Emotions are an integral part of human cognition and they guide not only our understanding of the world but also our actions within it.
1 code implementation • 20 Sep 2021 • Amanda Cercas Curry, Gavin Abercrombie, Verena Rieser
We find that the distribution of abuse is vastly different compared to other commonly used datasets, with more sexually tinted aggression towards the virtual persona of these systems.
1 code implementation • ACL (GeBNLP) 2021 • Gavin Abercrombie, Amanda Cercas Curry, Mugdha Pandya, Verena Rieser
Technology companies have produced varied responses to concerns about the effects of the design of their conversational AI systems.
1 code implementation • WS 2019 • Amanda Cercas Curry, Verena Rieser
How should conversational agents respond to verbal abuse through the user?
no code implementations • 20 Dec 2017 • Ioannis Papaioannou, Amanda Cercas Curry, Jose L. Part, Igor Shalyminov, Xinnuo Xu, Yanchao Yu, Ondřej Dušek, Verena Rieser, Oliver Lemon
Open-domain social dialogue is one of the long-standing goals of Artificial Intelligence.
no code implementations • 13 Sep 2017 • Amanda Cercas Curry, Helen Hastie, Verena Rieser
In contrast with goal-oriented dialogue, social dialogue has no clear measure of task success.
1 code implementation • EMNLP 2017 • Jekaterina Novikova, Ondřej Dušek, Amanda Cercas Curry, Verena Rieser
The majority of NLG evaluation relies on automatic metrics, such as BLEU .