Regular biography
Professor Elizabeth Black is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Informatics at King's College London. She is the Director of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted Artificial Intelligence, a collaborative initiative between King's College London and Imperial College London. Her research focuses on safe and trusted artificial intelligence, intelligent agents, and multi-agent systems. She is also a member of the steering committee of the COMMA international conference series and an Editorial Board Member of the journal Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. Professor Black is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and has held academic positions at the University of Oxford and the University of Utrecht.
Scholar-generated biography
Elizabeth Black is a researcher in the Department of Informatics at King's College London, focusing on dialogue systems and argumentation. Her work explores the development of inquiry and persuasion dialogues, integrating ontological models and relevance theory to support complex interactions. She investigates how dialogues can account for different perspectives in collaborative argumentation and model clinical goals. Her research also addresses the challenges of automated planning in persuasion dialogues and the use of enthymemes in dialogue systems. Black's contributions span both theoretical and applied aspects of dialogue systems, with an emphasis on their practical implementation in domains such as clinical decision support.