About me
I’m a founding professor for Natural Language Processing at IT:U - Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria. I’m also a research scientist at IBM Research Europe - Ireland. Previously, I was an adjunct senior lecturer, visiting professor and co-supervisor at UKP Lab-TU Darmstadt.
At IT:U, I lead the NLP group with a strong focus on large language model (LLM) governance, cross-document NLP, knowledge and reasoning, and human-centred NLP applications for education, social sciences, humanities, and scientific discovery. The broad research goal of the IT:U NLP Lab is to develop robust and trustworthy NLP technologies to improve human-AI and human-human interactions, and to sovle real-world problems.
Join us: call for postdocs and students
I’m currently looking for postdoctoral researchers, PhD students, and visiting students to join the IT:U NLP lab! Please fill out this form (feel free to skip some questions) if you are interested in joining our lab. For prospective PhD students and PostDoc researchers who have submitted their applications through the IT:U portal, I strongly encourage you to fill out this form to help me schedule the interviews promptly.
Interested PhD candidates are encouraged to apply for the “PhD Program in Computational X at IT:U”. If you are interested in working with me, please indicate this in your application. I strongly encourage you to visit the IT:U NLP group’s page to explore our current research topics before applying.
- If you want to carry out research in my group as a post-doc, there are several funding possibilities:
- IT:U Postdoc Program - please indicate your interests in joining the NLP group in your application
- Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships
- FWF ESPRIT Career Advancement for Postdocs
- Leopoldina Postdoc Scholarship (incoming from Germany, Austria, or Switzerland
- Please note that I do not respond to individual emails if the content can be addressed through the forms provided above. I will review all applications and reach out to you if there is a fit for our lab.
News
10/2024 I gave an invited talk “The AI-Augmented Scientist: Building Computational Models for Effective Knowledge Synthesis and Dissemination” at CLASP (The Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability), University of Gothenburg on October 23rd.
10/2024 Starting in November, I will be joining IT:U - Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria as a founding professor for NLP.
09/2024: Our paper “WikiContradict: A Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs on Real-World Knowledge Conflicts from Wikipedia” has been accepted at the NeurIPS 2024 dataset and benchmark track.
09/2024: Two papers have been accepted at EMNLP 2024 Main Conference and Findings.
09/2024 I will serve as a senior area chair at NAACL 2025.
09/2024 Our paper about Holmes has been accepted at TACL 2024 and will be presented at EMNLP 2024.
09/2024 I will give an invited talk “WikiContradict: A Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs on Real-World Knowledge Conflicts from Wikipedia” at the Monthly Wikimedia Research Showcase on September 18th. The talk will be streamed live on YouTube and also archived for later viewing on the Wikimedia Foundation’s YouTube channel.
09/2024 I will give an invited talk “Fact-checking Misrepresented Science and Evaluating LLMs on Real-world Knowledge Conflicts” at the Second IBM AI Research Master-class Workshop in Trinity College Dublin on September 6th.
08/2024 I gave a keynote talk “Reconstructing Fallacies in Misrepresented Science and Argument Mining in the Wild” at the 11th Workshop on Argument Mining (ArgMining 2024).
07/2024 A paper accepted at at the ACL 2024 Student Research Workshop. The paper is based on a master thesis project that I co-supervised with Prof. Anya Belz at Dublin City University for their first NLP master program on 2023/2024.
06/2024 I will serve as an area chair at COLING 2025.
06/2024 A paper accepted at ACL 2024 workshop on teaching NLP: I wrote a short paper describing a course shared task that we organized at the Foundations of Language Technology (FoLT) course in 2023/2024 at the Technical University of Darmstadt. The shared task focuses on evaluating the output of LLMs in generating harmful answers to health-related clinical questions.
06/2024 I gave an invited talk and participated a panel discussion at the 1st International Conference on Robust Argumentation Machines (RATIO24).
05/2024 Three long papers have been accepted at ACL 2024 Main Conference.
05/2024 We have released a massive meta-evaluation benchmark called Holmes to evaluate internal embeddings for more than 50 LLMs across 200 datasets, covering a wide range of linguistic competences.
04/2024 I will give an invited talk at the “Anaphora and Predictability” workshop at Pompeu Fabra University.
03/2024 I will serve as a senior area chair at EMNLP 2024.
03/2024 Our paper, “On the Role of Summary Content Units in Text Summarization Evaluation”, has been accepted at the NAACL 2024 Main Conference! The paper is based on an idea from the GEM human evaluation work group, and all experiments were conducted by the four exceptional student researchers whom Juri and I co-mentored in a software project from the course “Data Analysis Software Project for Natural Language” that I taught at TU Darmstadt in 2022/2023. Kudos to all co-authors!
02/2024 I will serve as an area chair at ACL 2024.
01/2024 Our paper on probing the gap between in- and cross-topic generalization of pre-trained language models has been accepted at EACL 2024 Findings.
12/2013 I attended the panel discussion at ArgMining 2023.
10/2023 I’m looking for a PhD student on AI-assisted Scientific Evidence Synthesis, co-supervised by me at IBM Research and Prof. Anya Belz from Dublin City University. The PhD candidate will be employed by IBM Research Ireland for the duration of the PhD study. Apply using this link if you are interested in the position.
10/2023 I gave an invited talk “Building Computational Models to Understand Scholarly Documents for Supporting Scientific Knowledge Discovery and Communication” at the IBM AI Research Masterclass workshop in Trinity College Dublin.
10/2023 Three long papers have been accepted at EMNLP 2023 Main Conference.
10/2023 I will serve as an area chair and visa chair at EACL 2024.
09/2023 I will serve as a senior area chair at NAACL 2024.
09/2023 I will serve as an area chair at LREC-COLING 2024.
07/2023 I will give an invited talk “Bridging Resolution: A Journey Towards Modelling Referential Discourse Entities” at CODI 2023.
06/2023 I will serve as a senior area chair at EMNLP 2023.
05/2023 I will serve as an area chair at IJCNLP-AACL 2023, INLG 2023 and SIGDIAL 2023.
05/2023 Four long papers accepted at ACL2023 Main Conference. Kudos to my students and collaborators!
04/2023 I visited UKP Lab and had great discussions with the brilliant students from the lab.
01/2023 I gave a short talk at IBM Neuro-Symbolic AI Workshop.