• 2023: Reitter group alumn Moojan Ghafurian is starting as Assistant Professor of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo
• 2023: Reitter group alumn Yang Xu accepts a position as Associate Professor at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), at Shenzhen, China.
• Latest papers:
  • Characterizing Attribution and Fluency Tradeoffs for Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models (R. Aksitov, C. Chang, D. Reitter, S. Shakeri, Y. Sung)
  • CONQRR: Conversational Query Rewriting for Retrieval with Reinforcement Learning (Wu et al., EMNLP 2022)
  • Measuring attribution in natural language generation models (Rashkin et al. , ArXiv)
  • Evaluating Attribution in Dialogue Systems: The BEGIN Benchmark (Dziri et al., TACL 10, 2022)
  • Increasing Faithfulness in Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue with Controllable Features (Rashkin et al., ACL 2021)
• 2022: Reitter group alumn Mary Alex Kelly, accepts a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science, Carleton University