Daniel Braun

Alles Gute zum #GIburtstag! Als GI-Mitglieder gestalten wir gemeinsam die digitale Zukunft. 💛
Lust mitzumachen? Hier gibt's alle Infos zur Mitgliedschaft: gi.de/mitgliedschaft #WirSindInformatik

This week, I’m in Heidelberg attending the Heidelberg Laureat Forum #hlf25. It’s always a great pleasure to be among some of the smartest minds in Math and Computer Science and see what they are working on.

Acquiescence Bias in Large Language Models Acquiescence bias, i.e. the tendency of humans to agree with statements in surveys, independent of their actual beliefs, is well researched and documented. Since Large Language Models (LLMs) have…

Are LLMs “Yes Sayers”?

Humans often show acquiescence bias, i.e. prefer positive answers in questionnaires and surveys regardless of their actual belief. We investigated if LLMs show a similar bias and found: they’re disproportionately likely to answer “No,” even when the meaning flips.

Excited to announce the first-ever Workshop for Young Researchers in Natural Language Generation (YNLG), supported by @siggen.bsky.social, taking place on October 29, 2025 in Hanoi, Vietnam, co-located with INLG 2025.
Call for Submissions is out now!

ynlg-workshop.github.io

Where top-tier NLP research is done. #acl2025

The numbers in NLP research these days are just madness. #acl2025

Oh yes absolutely!

On my way to Vienna for #ACL2025 @aclmeeting.bsky.social. Hit me up if you want to talk about Legal NLP, Perspectivism and Disagreement, AI for Social Good or other stuff.

We Should Evaluate Real-World Impact The ACL community has very little interest in evaluating the real-world impact of NLP systems. A structured survey of the ACL Anthology shows that perhaps 0.1% of its papers contain such evaluations; ...

Ive written a "Last Word" opinion piece for CL about evaluating real-world impact. It
* looks at how impact can be evaluated
* shows via a structured survey that perhaps 0.1% of ACL Anth papers measure real-world impact
* discusses why this is the case

arxiv.org/abs/2507.05973

Why “Artificial Intelligence” Should Not Be Regulated | Digital Government: Research and Practice Lawmakers all over the world have started to draft new regulations for Artificial Intelligence (AI). While the European Union is currently leading the way with its AI Act, many other legislators will ...

Now finally assigned an issue number: my article »Why “Artificial Intelligence” Should Not Be Regulated«, in which I argue not against technology regulation, but against arbitrary definitions of 'AI' by lawmakers and in favor of risk-based, technology-independent regulation.

Hosted at RUB, with people attending from Frankfurt, Darmstadt, Regensburg, Magdeburg, and Prague, I think our AI & Law Seminars is growing pretty well! Thanks @d4br4.bsky.social for coming over and giving a super inspiring talk on "disagreement (?)" in legal NLP

Spent a very interesting day talking about NLP in the legal domain at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de. Thank you for having me and the nice discussions!

Associate Professor or DTU Tenure Track Assistant Professor in AI - DTU Compute Are you passionate about Human Centered AI and can you help build the next generations of AI systems within the Danish Pioneer Centre for AI? DTU Compute has an attractive group leader opening as Tenu...

🏹 Job alert: DTU Compute is hiring a Tenure Track Assistant/Associate Professor in AI, funded by the Pioneer Centre for AI (@aicentre.dk). DTU Compute is a key partner in the Unit Copenhagen.

📍 Kgs. Lyngby, near Copenhagen
📅 Apply by Apr 30
🔗 More info: efzu.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Ein Stempel mit der Aufschrift Fachbereich Mathematik und Informatik der Philipps-Universität - Prof. Dr. Daniel Braun -

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Several PhD Positions in Artificial Intelligence at Computer Science KU Leuven All positions are in the Machine Learning subgroup of the Section for Declarative Languages and Artificial Intelligence (DTAI), which is part of the Department of Computer Science at KU Leuven. The DT...

We are hiring for PhD positions! I’m looking for people interested in exploring the intersection of learning and reasoning with applications to anomaly detection and sports. @dtai-kuleuven.bsky.social @wannesm.bsky.social

www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

Come present your #NLP work in Leuven!

A hill I will die on is that AI ⊃ ML and not AI = ML. If regulators only mean to regulate ML they should simply do so and not try to redefine AI.

🏰 PhD position on computational modelling | collective dynamics | cultural evolution 🏰

Get in touch with any questions you might have and join me in beautiful Marburg!

stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/c... (Deutsch)

stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/3... (English)

How to professor | Dirk Hovy It feels not long ago that I was worried about my job applications, but in reality, I have done this long enough that some of my first MSc supervisees are professors of their own now. Every few months...

Over the last few years, several people from the @milanlp.bsky.social lab went onto the academic job market in #NLP. Based on the conversations with them, I collected some observations we shared internally. In case they are useful for others, though, here they are:
dirkhovy.com/post/2025_01...

I always find the notion that the European AI industry is held back by (over) regulation quite surprising. Most rules of the AI act will not apply before August 2026. GDPR came into force in 2018. Where have all the EU's big tech companies been before? Clearly regulation is not our (biggest) problem

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Excel behandelt dich wie ein Datum.

I'm hiring! Fully funded, full-time PhD position in Natural Language Processing at the University of Marburg. It's an open topic position, so you will have the chance to shape your own topic within the research areas of the group. If you have any questions or doubts please get in touch. #NLP #NLProc

Very happy to see our paper on the ABG-DE corpus for the legal assessment of clauses in German contracts on the list!

aclanthology.org/2024.acl-lon...

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Exciting career news: Next month, I will join the University of Marburg as Professor for Computer Science and Head of the Natural Language Processing group. That also means I will be hiring PhD students soon, details will follow.

Why Lawmakers all over the world have started to draft new regulations for Artificial Intelligence (AI). While the European Union is currently leading the way with its AI Act, many other legislators will ...

Why "Artificial Intelligence" Should Not Be Regulated

For a special issue of Digital Government, I wrote a commentary arguing that "AI" should not be regulated. Not because AI can't be dangerous or AI systems shouldn't be regulated, but because AI is ill-defined and a useless regulatory category.

KI, Medizin, Recht und Diversität: GI ernennt vier Informatik-Talente zu Junior-Fellows Vier junge Menschen, die die Informatik voranbringen: Am 24. September 2024 werden Franziska Boenisch, Dr. Daniel Braun, Bettina Finzel und Mareike Lisker von der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI)...

The German Informatics Society (@informatik.bsky.social) will honour me as Junior Fellow at their annual meeting in two weeks. I'm very flattered to be in the company of very talented and bright people (and to still be considered young 😉).

If you’re at ACL and interested in Legal NLP (or NLP 4 Social Good, Teaching NLP, Disagreement and Perspectivism, other cool applications or just want to have a chat) stop by!

AGB-DE: A Corpus for the Automated Legal Assessment of Clauses in... Legal tasks and datasets are often used as benchmarks for the capabilities of language models. However, openly available annotated datasets are rare. In this paper, we introduce AGB-DE, a corpus...

I’m in Bangkok for #ACL2024 and will talk about Legal NLP:
On Monday I present our corpus and paper AGB-DE (arxiv.org/abs/2406.06809) at the third poster session. 
On Thursday I will talk about teaching NLP in Law School as part of the Workshop on Teaching NLP.