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Ivan Habernal

@ivanhabernal.bsky.social

Full professor at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de + @rctrust.bsky.social | Leading the TrustHLT group | Ex @tuda.bsky.social, @unipaderborn.bsky.social | Playing the bass | He/him

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"Dear reviewer assigned to my batch, I know you don't give a sh*t about my polite e-mails which I'v been sending you personally because I do care about ARR - well, I have some bad news for you...."

04.02.2026 06:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This major release of my lab's annotation tool, Potato 2.0, was a long time in the making but I'm really excited by all the new features (and quality of life improvements). If you're doing data annotation of any kind, check it out. Need any other features? We'd love to hear from you too!

29.01.2026 21:27 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
NFG | Natural Language Processing Group Website of the research group on Natural Language Processing at Marburg University.

We are looking for 3 PhD students!

The @boeckler-stiftung.bsky.social is funding a research group on β€œHuman-in-Control: Implementing employee co-determination in the design, development, and deployment of artificial intelligence” and we are looking for 3 students.

Details: responsible-nlp.net/nfg/

29.01.2026 16:09 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sadly, PRISM makes perfect sense in a world with 28,000 NeurIPS submissions, the idea that the writing of a paper to get bullets on a cv is all that matters, and the further idea that a blog post on a corporate site is equivalent to a paper.

28.01.2026 21:23 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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In yesterday's exercise, I incidentaly got this spitted out by Qwen2.5-1.7B... what the heck is that? An internal system prompt? In any case, the "when in doubt" instruction tells a lot... :)

23.01.2026 08:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Area-chairing January ACL Rolling Review, checkint out reviewer list of my papers, and ... oh, not sure if the very high number of full professors among reviewers should scare me or make me happy... :)

22.01.2026 12:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

...ehm... cool... what is this dude with the laptop doing?... and... where's the paper? πŸ₯²

16.01.2026 12:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
PrivateNLP@ACL 2026 Overview Privacy-preserving data analysis has become essential in the age of Large Language Models (LLMs) where access to vast amounts of data can provide gains over tuned algorithms. A large proporti...

First call for papers - Seventh Workshop on Privacy in Natural Language Processing, co-located with ACL 2026, San Diego (CA), USA (and on Zoom)

sites.google.com/view/private...

16.01.2026 12:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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βœ¨πŸŽ„ Happy Holidays and a successful New Year from the RC Trust team! πŸŽ‰

🀝 Thank you to all our partners, collaborators, and supporters for a year of great cooperation and inspiring exchange.
πŸš€ Looking forward to new projects, encounters, and shared ideas in the year ahead ✨

19.12.2025 08:11 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Daniil from University of Washington, Tacoma joined us through the Internship Program, using the stay to dive deeper into privacy-preserving NLP. πŸ”βœ¨
Focused research time, global exchange, and strong mentorship made the experience transformative.

#AI #NLP #Internship #Privacy

17.12.2025 07:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Improved project overview dashboard with new activity sidebar for project managers.

Improved project overview dashboard with new activity sidebar for project managers.

πŸŽ„INCEpTION 39.0 is available. πŸ’«

New activity overview for project managers, export annotations directly from the workload management, improved explorer, bulk-deactivation of accounts, ... and more!

github.com/inception-pr...

#inceptiontap #opensource #textannotation

09.12.2025 18:18 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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- Me: "Oh, I feel so stuffed at the moment, I shouldn't have eaten that hamburger..."
- Wikipedia: "I know exactly what your problem is"

08.12.2025 08:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
CEUR-WS.org/Vol-4089 - Argument Mining and Empirical Legal Research Workshop 2025

And finally here's the proceedings of the first Argument Mining and Empirical Legal Research workshop co-located with ICAIL in Chicago earlier this year!
ceur-ws.org/Vol-4089/

11.11.2025 09:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸŽ‰ What a day! The RC Trust Grand Opening brought together researchers, industry & policy to champion trustworthy, responsible AI. πŸ€–πŸ”’
πŸ™ Thank you to the State of North Rhine-Westphalia for funding & trust, and to all partners, colleagues & friends who helped us reach this milestone. πŸ€πŸ›οΈ

04.11.2025 14:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This was one of the coolest gigs ever! Usually we play a couple of fill-ins and then get bored during the speeches... But this time James Green, a NASA chief scientist, talking an hour about his team landing on Mars and searching for life there? What can be more fascinating than that!? 🀩

31.10.2025 10:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Great questions - but what were the answers? (yeah, I get it, I should have just participated ... :)

31.10.2025 10:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

An academic fact whose importance cannotβ€”absolutely cannotβ€”be overstated:

Whoever creates the Overleaf project gets to pick the macros.tex

18.10.2025 00:57 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Sabine Wehnert

Sabine Wehnert

πŸŽ‰ Welcome Sabine Wehnert to TrustHLT!

She builds practical Legal NLP: textbook-to-law knowledge, robust search & recommenders, and verifiable model outputs for real legal work. What capability should trustworthy legal AI deliver next?

#LegalNLP #TrustworthyAI

Foto: Foto Fuchs Magdeburg

13.10.2025 15:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Prof. Elizabeth Tipton

Prof. Elizabeth Tipton

🌍 β€œDo the right thing, not just the easy thing.”
Prof. Elizabeth Tipton (Northwestern) visited the RC Trust Graduate School to discuss how science can create trustworthy evidence that truly supports policymaking.

More: rc-trust.ai/news/news-de...

Photo: Julian Welz/TU Dortmund

09.10.2025 13:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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That's where we'll meet for the 7th edition of the Privacy-Preserving NLP workshop - so save the date :) Until then, have fun doing cool research!

02.10.2025 05:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

🚨 #NLLP2025 decisions are in! (πŸ“© direct subs + πŸ“‘ ARR commits)

πŸŽ‰ 32 papers accepted πŸ₯³

πŸ™ thx to our reviewers πŸ¦Έβ€β™‚οΈπŸ¦Έβ€β™€οΈ

πŸ—‚οΈ the final program is now up in the scramble (stay tuned)

β˜€οΈβœˆοΈ Ready for Suzhou? πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³πŸ‰πŸ₯Ÿ
#NLProc #LegalTech #EMNLP2025
@emnlpmeeting.bsky.social

01.10.2025 12:45 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

🚨 ARR is looking for a volunteer Co-CTO to help improve tech infrastructure!
πŸ› οΈ Preferred:
β€’ 5+ years in NLP research
β€’ Git, CLI tools, Python, and basic HTML
β€’ 2-year role, overlapping with current Co-CTO
Interested? DM @fredashi.bsky.social or email fhs@uwaterloo.ca
#ARR #ACL #NLProc

29.09.2025 18:34 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Here's another one... thanks for cleaning up my idea TODO-list ;)

24.09.2025 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sorting out some old research ideas, happily seeing someone else else actually did care :)

24.09.2025 13:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

...and for bringing some transparency: github.com/habernal/emn...

11.09.2025 09:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you!!!

10.09.2025 13:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
GitHub - habernal/emnlp2025-demos-openreview: OpenReview configuration for EMNLP 2025 demo papers OpenReview configuration for EMNLP 2025 demo papers - habernal/emnlp2025-demos-openreview

EMNLP 25 demo decisions are out, angry e-mails are coming in, but if you wonder what it means to run this thing first time in OpenReview, we have been documenting it and making it fully transparent: github.com/habernal/emn... including lessons learned for future chairs (see Issues)

10.09.2025 12:59 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

The EMNLP @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social 2025 demo acceptance notifications are out. 77 out of 212 papers accepted. 31 excellent area chairs, 185 mostly excellent reviewers (some left the marathon in the middle), Joerg and Peter amazing PC co-chairs! 964 orga e-mails sent so far - and we're not over yet.

10.09.2025 09:49 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

...ehm... from progam chairs, obviously. Area chairs have their amazing job done already - we can't thank them enough 😍

09.09.2025 14:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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