CopeNLU

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

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.
📆 Application deadline: 31 October 2025
ℹ️ Details: www.copenlu.com/news/phd-fel...
👀 Reasons to apply: www.copenlu.com/post/why-ucph/

PhD fellowship in Explainable Natural Language Understanding Department of Computer Science Faculty of SCIENCE University of Copenhagen The Natural Language Processing Section at the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science at the University of Copenhagen invites applicants for a PhD f

- Fully funded PhD fellowship on Explainable NLU: apply by 31 October 2025, start in Spring 2026: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

- Open-topic PhD positions: express your interest through ELLIS by 31 October 2025, start in Autumn 2026: ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...

#NLProc #XAI

📣 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

🎉 Our work on attribution in summarization is now accepted to #EMNLP2025 main! 🎉

"Unstructured Evidence Attribution for Long Context Query Focused Summarization"

w/ @zainmujahid.me , Lu Wang, @iaugenstein.bsky.social , and @davidjurgens.bsky.social

Happy to share that our work on multi-modal framing analysis of news was accepted to #EMNLP2025!

Understanding news output and embedded biases is especially important in today's environment and it's imperative to take a holistic look at it.

Looking forward to presenting it in Suzhou!

🙋 How do Large Language Models internally process cultural knowledge? 🌐

Happy to share our new preprint "Entangled in Representations: Mechanistic Investigation of Cultural Biases in Large Language Models"

📃 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2508.08879

🚀 Excited to share our new preprint: BiasGym: Fantastic LLM Biases and How to Find (and Remove) Them

📄 Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2508.08855

Thanks for everyone who came to our #acl2025nlp presentations (even the informal ones). Hope to connect again at #emnlp2025!
#NLProc @siddheshp.bsky.social @lovhag.bsky.social @saravera.bsky.social @nadavb.bsky.social @gretawarren.bsky.social @iaugenstein.bsky.social

Meet @iaugenstein.bsky.social, Prof at University of Copenhagen 🇩🇰, ELLIS Scholar, and member of ELLIS Unit Copenhagen (@aicentre.dk) + ELLIS Program #NLProc.

Her advice to young women in science: “Success isn't just about tech skills. It's also about managing your career.”

#WomenInELLIS

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CopeNLU will give five paper presentations and one invited talk at #ACL2025NLP this week ⤵️
@apepa.bsky.social @rnv.bsky.social @nadavb.bsky.social @iaugenstein.bsky.social @gretawarren.bsky.social @saravera.bsky.social @lovhag.bsky.social @zainmujahid.me @siddheshp.bsky.social

And thanks again to all organisers and volunteers -- couldn't have done it without you 😊
@rnv.bsky.social @apepa.bsky.social @dustinbwright.com

Congrats to the best poster awardees!

@ajyl.bsky.social Shared Geometry of LMs: arxiv.org/pdf/2503.21073
Antonia Karamolegkou, Multimodal LMs for Visual Impairment: aclanthology.org/2025.acl-lon...
@gretawarren.bsky.social Can Community Notes Replace Fact-Checkers? aclanthology.org/2025.acl-short

Thanks to our fantastic keynote speakers: Thamar Solorio @danishpruthi.bsky.social @tanumitra.bsky.social @davidjurgens.bsky.social @anjalief.bsky.social
@dallascard.bsky.social and Mausam!

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

🎓 Looking for PhD opportunities in #NLProc for a start in Spring 2026?

🗒️ 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...

The LEADING reporting guideline is now published in Comprehensive Psychiatry 🥳

See www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Or read the previous summary 👇

Pre-ACL 2025 Workshop | Event | Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence

Join us for the Pre-ACL 2025 Workshop in Copenhagen, 26 July, 2025!
🇩🇰 With international NLP experts from Columbia, UCLA, University of Michigan, and more to Copenhagen to meet with the Danish NLP community. 🇩🇰
📅 Poster submission deadline: June 16, 2025
🔗 Register: www.aicentre.dk/events/pre-a...

⏰ Poster submission deadline TODAY for the pre-@aclmeeting.bsky.social Workshop 🇩🇰
📅 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

Join us in Copenhagen for the Pre-ACL 2025 Workshop! 🇩🇰

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...

⏰ 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

BCS IRSG Karen Spärck Jones (KSJ) Award 2024 Prize Giving and Keynote at ECIR 2025 By Dr Haiming Liu (Associate Professor at University of Southampton and BCS IRSG Membership Secretary)

@iaugenstein.bsky.social has been crowned last year’s winner of the Karen Spärck Jones Award. Her well-deserved trophy was awarded after delivering a very insightful keynote at ECIR 2025. Read our article in BCS Informer. medium.com/bcs-irsg-inf...

We're seeking nominations for the next KSJ Award!

Lastly, we present "Measuring and Benchmarking LLMs' Capabilities to Generate Persuasive Language", finding that personas in system prompts change persuasiveness substantially, even when only instructed to paraphrase #NAACL2025
#NLProc @iaugenstein.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2406.17753

In "Investigating Human Values in Online Communities", we perform a high-scale study of the unique values expressed by online communities with different perspectives
arxiv.org/abs/2402.14177 #NAACL2025 #NLProc
@nadavb.bsky.social @rnv.bsky.social @frimelle.bsky.social @iaugenstein.bsky.social

C3NLP Workshop #NAACL2025:
@iaugenstein.bsky.social will be presenting on tailoring LLM outputs to cultures, including where implicit cultural personalisation based on names leads to over-simplification arxiv.org/abs/2502.11995
@rnv.bsky.social @frimelle.bsky.social
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@yongcao.bsky.social, Haijiang Liu, @rnv.bsky.social, @iaugenstein.bsky.social, @paul-rottger.bsky.social, @danielhers.bsky.social. Specializing Large Language Models to Simulate Survey Response Distributions for Global Populations.
arxiv.org/abs/2502.07068
#NAACL2025 #NLProc

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