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Pepa Atanasova

@apepa.bsky.social

Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen; interpretability, xAI, factuality, accountability, xAI diagnostics https://apepa.github.io/

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What is the interaction dynamics between Parametric Knowledge (PK) and Context Knowledge (CK) in generating longer Natural Language Explanation (NLE) sequences?

06.11.2025 03:02 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

⏰ One week left to apply for the two PhD Fellowships in Trustworthy NLP and Explainable NLU! The two positions have a starting date in spring 2026. Check the original post for more detailsπŸ‘‡

24.10.2025 08:30 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ™‹β€β™€οΈ thank you!

19.10.2025 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Available #NLProc PhD positions:
- Explainable NLU, main supervisor: myself, start in Spring 2026 tinyurl.com/3uset3dm
- Trustworthy NLP, main supervisor: @apepa.bsky.social, start in Spring 2026 tinyurl.com/yxj8yk4m
- Open-topic: express interest via ELLIS, start in Autumn 2026 tinyurl.com/2hcxexyx

03.10.2025 07:54 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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PhD fellowships for start in Spring or Autumn 2026 | CopeNLU Would you like to join our lab as a PhD student in 2026? We have several openings. Read more about reasons to join CopeNLU here. Start in Spring 2026 We have two fully funded 3-year PhD fellowships av...

Looking for PhD opportunites in #NLProc #XAI? We @copenlu.bsky.social @aicentre.dk @apepa.bsky.social are hiring for a start in Spring or Autumn 2026.
πŸ“† Application deadline: 31 October 2025
ℹ️ Details: www.copenlu.com/news/phd-fel...
πŸ‘€ Reasons to apply: www.copenlu.com/post/why-ucph/

03.10.2025 07:54 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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πŸŽ“ Fully funded PhD in Trustworthy NLP at the UCPH & @aicentre.dk with @iaugenstein.bsky.social and me, @copenlu.bsky.social
πŸ“† Application deadline: 30 October 2025
πŸ‘€ Reasons to apply: www.copenlu.com/post/why-ucph/
πŸ”— Apply here: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
#NLProc #XAI #TrustworhyAI

29.09.2025 12:00 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ“£ Looking for PhD opportunities in Natural Language Processing?

Our group has several openings for a start in Spring or Autumn 2026 -- apply by 31 October: www.copenlu.com/news/phd-fel...

#NLProc #XAI @copenlu.bsky.social @apepa.bsky.social @aicentre.dk

01.09.2025 14:20 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thanks to everyone who joined us @aicentre.dk for the Pre-ACL 2025 workshop!
We had 7 inspiring keynotes, 26 poster presentations, and there was time for informal mingling as well.
Thanks to DSSA for the generous support.
See some of you in Vienna for #acl2025nlp! #NLProc
aicentre.dk/events/pre-acl

27.07.2025 11:33 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
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πŸŽ“ Looking for PhD opportunities in #NLProc for a start in Spring 2026?

πŸ—’οΈ Add your expression of interest to join @copenlu.bsky.social here by 20 July: forms.office.com/e/HZSmgR9nXB

Selected candidates will be invited to submit a DARA fellowship application with me: daracademy.dk/fellowship/f...

27.06.2025 06:51 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

⏰ Poster submission deadline TODAY for the pre-@aclmeeting.bsky.social Workshop πŸ‡©πŸ‡°
πŸ“… We've finalised our schedule and speakers: Thamar Solorio, Smaranda Muresan, @davidjurgens.bsky.social, Nanyun Peng, @danishpruthi.bsky.social , Kai-Wei Chang, and Mausam www.aicentre.dk/events/pre-a... @aicentre.dk

16.06.2025 13:47 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Join us in Copenhagen for the Pre-ACL 2025 Workshop! πŸ‡©πŸ‡°

We’re excited to welcome researchers and practitioners in Natural Language Processing, Generative AI, and Language Technology to a one-day workshop on 26 July 2025 – just ahead of ACL 2025 in Vienna.

Learn more: www.aicentre.dk/events/pre-a...

28.05.2025 15:53 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

⏰ Only one week left to apply for this fully funded PhD fellowship at the University of Copenhagen & @aicentre.dk ! Don’t miss the chance to explore interpretability for LLMs under my and @iaugenstein.bsky.social's supervision @copenlu.bsky.social

08.05.2025 08:27 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Jingyi Sun, @apepa.bsky.social, @iaugenstein.bsky.social. Evaluating Input Feature Explanations through a Unified Diagnostic Evaluation Framework.
arxiv.org/abs/2406.15085
bsky.app/profile/apep...
#NAACL2025 #NLProc

28.04.2025 15:56 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The CopeNLU group will be giving four paper presentations and one invited talk at #NAACL2025 this week, on topics including explainable AI and cross-cultural #NLProc
Schedule + more details ‡️
#XAI @apepa.bsky.social @rnv.bsky.social @nadavb.bsky.social @frimelle.bsky.social @iaugenstein.bsky.social

28.04.2025 15:56 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Interested in joining us at the University of Copenhagen? | CopeNLU The University of Copenhagen is a great place if you're both interested in high-quality NLP research and a high quality of life.

πŸŽ“ Fully funded PhD in interpretable NLP at the University of Copenhagen & @aicentre.dk with @iaugenstein.bsky.social and me, @copenlu.bsky.social
πŸ“† Application deadline: 15 May 2025
πŸ‘€ Reasons to apply: www.copenlu.com/post/why-ucph/
πŸ”— Apply here: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
#NLProc #XAI

11.04.2025 09:10 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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🚨New pre-print 🚨

News articles often convey different things in text vs. image. Recent work in computational framing analysis has analysed the article text but the corresponding images in those articles have been overlooked.
We propose multi-modal framing analysis of news: arxiv.org/abs/2503.20960

07.04.2025 09:20 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3
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πŸŽ‰ Our Actionable Interpretability workshop has been accepted to #ICML2025! πŸŽ‰
> Follow @actinterp.bsky.social
> Website actionable-interpretability.github.io

@talhaklay.bsky.social @anja.re @mariusmosbach.bsky.social @sarah-nlp.bsky.social @iftenney.bsky.social

Paper submission deadline: May 9th!

31.03.2025 16:59 β€” πŸ‘ 43    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3
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Our work comparing highlight and interactive explanations has been accepted to #NAACL2025! arxiv.org/pdf/2406.15085

Despite being a less explored approach, span interactive explanations outperform other explanation types across multiple dimensions. #XAI #NLProc
@copenlu.bsky.social

17.02.2025 21:20 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Check our new work on making natural language explanations more faithful to a model’s reasoning. We combine GNNs + highlight explanations to improve faithfulness!
Read more: arxiv.org/pdf/2412.12318
@copenlu.bsky.social

17.02.2025 20:33 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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A Reality Check on Context Utilisation for Retrieval-Augmented Generation Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) helps address the limitations of the parametric knowledge embedded within a language model (LM). However, investigations of how LMs utilise retrieved information o...

πŸ“š How good are language models at utilising contexts in RAG scenarios?
We release πŸ§™πŸ½β€β™€οΈDRUID to facilitate studies of context usage in real-world scenarios.
arxiv.org/abs/2412.17031

w/ @saravera.bsky.social, H.Yu, @rnv.bsky.social, C.Lioma, M.Maistro, @apepa.bsky.social and @iaugenstein.bsky.social ⭐️

02.01.2025 07:15 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3
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How can explainable AI empower fact-checkers to tackle misinformation? πŸ“°πŸ€–

We interviewed fact-checkers & identified explanation needs & design implications for #NLP, #HCI, and #XAI.

Excited to present this work with
@iaugenstein.bsky.social & Irina Shklovski at #chi2025!
arxiv.org/abs/2502.09083

14.02.2025 09:05 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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πŸ“£ Open 3-year Postdoc Position at DIKU, UCPH!

Find more information and apply here: di.ku.dk/english/abou...

πŸ—“οΈ Application deadline is 29 January 2025.

10.01.2025 12:36 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ“’ Open PhD Position in Interpretable Natural Language Processing at the Department of Computer Science, UCPH!

πŸ—“ Application deadline is 15 January 2025.

Find more information about the position and apply here πŸ‘‰ di.ku.dk/english/abou...

@apepa.bsky.social @iaugenstein.bsky.social

08.01.2025 10:43 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Only two weeksβŒ›οΈleft to apply for this fully funded PhD fellowship in Interpretable NLP at the University of Copenhagen & @aicentre.dk! Don’t miss the chance to explore interpretability for LLMs under my and @iaugenstein.bsky.social's supervision.

02.01.2025 15:05 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It was a pleasure collaborating with @lovhag.bsky.social on this project and exploring how language models handle different types of context retrieved by actual retrieval systems. We released a dataset πŸ§™DRUID to facilitate future studies on real-world context usage πŸ”— huggingface.co/datasets/cop...

02.01.2025 14:53 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hi Julian, thanks for creating the XAI starter pack! I also work on both explainability and interpretability! Would love to be added 😊

23.11.2024 12:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ“’ NAACL reviews have been released!

πŸ†• feature alert: ARR now has review issue flagging! Thanks @jkkummerfeld.bsky.social & OR team for help with implementation, and other EiCs for supporting the idea! It'll be live after author response. More details here: aclrollingreview.org/authors#step...
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22.11.2024 18:58 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

would love to be part of the list! :)

19.11.2024 22:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey, I do mech interp research in Copenhage, CopeNLU group πŸ‡©πŸ‡° Would love to be added as well πŸ™

19.11.2024 09:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ah, lovely, didn’t notice πŸ˜…, thank you πŸ™

19.11.2024 07:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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