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Angus Addlesee
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Published in Wallscope

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All Articles by Angus Addlesee Organised by Topic: Updated

Linked Data, Conversational AI and Computer Vision — I started writing on Medium in September 2018 as I believe knowledge should be shared and easily accessible for all. Since then I have written many articles and I have also started my PhD, so started to cover different topics that are of interest to different groups. To make sure…

Linked Data

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All Articles by Angus Addlesee Organised by Topic: Updated
All Articles by Angus Addlesee Organised by Topic: Updated
Linked Data

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Published in Towards Data Science

·1 day ago

Voice Assistant Accessibility

Ensuring that everyone is understood — I have been working on conversational AI with large language models (like GPT-4) for many years. The recent huge burst in popularity due to chatGPT is very exciting, but how can they be improved? There are many answers to that question of course, but in this article I will focus…

Voice Assistant

10 min read

Voice Assistant Accessibility
Voice Assistant Accessibility
Voice Assistant

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Published in Towards Data Science

·Oct 25, 2022

The Future of Voice Assistants: What Are the Early Research Trends?

Five Years of PhD Discussions at YRRSDS and SIGdial — If you don’t want to read the whole article, you can skim read the best bits. They are formatted like these two sentences to highlight them throughout. New areas of interest crop up in conversational AI, while others fade from discussion. In order to analyse the early research trends, I…

Artificial Intelligence

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The Future of Voice Assistants: What are the Early Research Trends?
The Future of Voice Assistants: What are the Early Research Trends?
Artificial Intelligence

19 min read


Published in Heartbeat

·Feb 22, 2022

Am I Allergic to This? Developing a Voice Assistant for Sight Impaired People

Answering Textual Questions from Packaging — This is a streamlined abridgment of a paper that I co-authored with the whole team detailed below, published at the International Conference on Multimodal Interaction 2021. If you ever need, please do cite our paper entitled “Am I Allergic to This? Assisting Sight Impaired People in the Kitchen.” Harvard: Ramil Brick…

Computer Vision

12 min read

Am I Allergic to This? Developing a Voice Assistant for Sight Impaired People
Am I Allergic to This? Developing a Voice Assistant for Sight Impaired People
Computer Vision

12 min read


Published in Heartbeat

·Feb 14, 2022

The Spoon is in the Sink: Assisting Visually Impaired People in the Kitchen

Providing Usable Answers to Spatial Visual Questions — This is a streamlined abridgment of a paper that I co-authored with the whole team detailed below, published at the Reasoning and Interaction Conference 2021. If you ever need, please do cite, our paper is entitled “The Spoon is in the Sink: Assisting Visually Impaired People in the Kitchen.” Harvard: Baker…

Computer Vision

14 min read

The Spoon is in the Sink: Assisting Visually Impaired People in the Kitchen
The Spoon is in the Sink: Assisting Visually Impaired People in the Kitchen
Computer Vision

14 min read


Published in Chatbots Life

·Apr 6, 2021

The Current State of Chatbots and Conversational AI across Europe and Africa - A Catalogue

What We Learned at the European and African Summits in 2021 — Edinburgh, Scotland is a hub of conversational AI - littered with startups, labs, established businesses, and University departments focused on the topic. As an industry-funded Conversational AI PhD Researcher, I was approached by Sydney to help organise the European Chatbot and Conversational AI Summit in Edinburgh. Of course, the event…

Conversational Ai

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The Current State of Chatbots and Conversational AI across Europe and Africa - A Catalogue
The Current State of Chatbots and Conversational AI across Europe and Africa - A Catalogue
Conversational Ai

14 min read


Published in Wallscope

·Jan 21, 2021

An Overview of Scotland’s Linked Data Projects from SLiDInG 7

Both Academic Research, and Implementation in Industry and the Public Sector — On the 12th of October I hosted the 7th meetup of the Scottish Linked Data Interest Group, otherwise known as SLiDInG 7. SLiDInG 7 was supported by The Scottish Government and SICSA Data Science, and organised by Wallscope and Heriot-Watt’s Semantic Web Lab (SWeL). We brought industry, academia, and the…

Rdf

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An Overview of Scotland’s Linked Data Projects from SLiDInG 7
An Overview of Scotland’s Linked Data Projects from SLiDInG 7
Rdf

16 min read


Published in Wallscope

·Oct 20, 2020

The Olympics: How to Build a Linked Data Application

Combining RDFox and Wallscope’s Platform — In 2012, the BBC famously used linked data to support coverage of the London Olympics on its website, app, and interactive video player. They have continued to champion the benefits of semantic technologies to this day. Coincidentally, as I started to write this, the Tokyo 2020 Olympics were planned to…

Rdf

21 min read

The Olympics: How to Build a Linked Data Application
The Olympics: How to Build a Linked Data Application
Rdf

21 min read


Published in Towards Data Science

·Oct 2, 2020

Ethically Collecting Conversations With People that have Cognitive Impairments

Improving the Accessibility of Voice Assistants: Doing Things Right — This is a streamlined abridgement of my paper with Pierre Albert, published at LREC’s Workshop on Legal and Ethical Issues in Human Language Technologies 2020. …

Artificial Intelligence

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Ethically Collecting Conversations With People that have Cognitive Impairments
Ethically Collecting Conversations With People that have Cognitive Impairments
Artificial Intelligence

15 min read


Published in Heartbeat

·May 26, 2020

Using Furhat and Rasa to Assist when You Forget a Word Mid-Sentence: A Student Group Project

Can you read my… — Introduction Every single one of us will intermittently try to conjure the right word for a given moment, pausing mid-sentence to try and remember it. For example, forgetting the name of a place caused this hesitation: “He was at that coffee shop on the corner called umm… Peppers” We can all…

Conversational Ai

7 min read

Using Furhat and Rasa to Assist when You Forget a Word Mid-Sentence: A Student Group Project
Using Furhat and Rasa to Assist when You Forget a Word Mid-Sentence: A Student Group Project
Conversational Ai

7 min read

Angus Addlesee

Angus Addlesee

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Research Associate at Heriot-Watt University. Studying a PhD in Artificial Intelligence. Contact details at http://addlesee.co.uk/

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