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Isabelle Augenstein

@iaugenstein.bsky.social

Professor at the University of Copenhagen. Explainable AI, Natural Language Processing, ML. Head of copenlu.bsky.social lab. #NLProc #NLP #XAI http://isabelleaugenstein.github.io/

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Back after a successful #EMNLP2025 conference in Suzhou, China -- some impressions โคต๏ธ

Our papers: www.copenlu.com/news/8-paper...

@apepa.bsky.social @rnv.bsky.social @siddesh.bsky.social @kirekara.bsky.social @shoejoe.bsky.social @zainmujahid.me @lucasresck.bsky.social @copenlu.bsky.social
#NLProc

12.11.2025 07:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What are the interaction dynamics between Parametric Knowledge and Context Knowledge in generating longer Natural Language Explanation sequences? Check out our recent preprint investigating this โคต๏ธ
#NLProc #XAI @sekh-copenlu.bsky.social @apepa.bsky.social @copenlu.bsky.social

06.11.2025 03:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Attending EMNLP 2025 this week? So is CopeNLU -- come find us there! โคต๏ธ

www.copenlu.com/news/8-paper...

@apepa.bsky.social @rnv.bsky.social @kirekara.bsky.social @shoejoe.bsky.social @dustinbwright.com @zainmujahid.me @lucasresck.bsky.social @iaugenstein.bsky.social

#NLProc #AI #EMNLP2025

04.11.2025 13:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Heading to #EMNLP2025? Interested in automatic summarization? Then come to our poster for "Unstructured Evidence Attribution for Long Context Query Focused Summarization" !

โฐ When: Fri. Nov 7 14:00-15:30
๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ Where: Hall C

I'm unable to attend but @iaugenstein.bsky.social will present our work!

03.11.2025 15:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โฒ๏ธ ๐ŸŽ“ Only a few days left to apply to do a PhD in Natural Language Processing with @apepa.bsky.social and me @copenlu.bsky.social @aicentre.dk!

#NLProc #ML #XAI #phdpositions #academicjobs

27.10.2025 13:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Which, whose, and how much knowledge do LLMs represent?

I'm excited to share our preprint answering these questions:

"Epistemic Diversity and Knowledge Collapse in Large Language Models"

๐Ÿ“„Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04226
๐Ÿ’ปCode: github.com/dwright37/ll...

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13.10.2025 11:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 89    ๐Ÿ” 26    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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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 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“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.
๐Ÿ“† Application deadline: 31 October 2025
โ„น๏ธ Details: www.copenlu.com/news/phd-fel...
๐Ÿ‘€ Reasons to apply: www.copenlu.com/post/why-ucph/

03.10.2025 07:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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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

01.09.2025 14:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ“ฃ 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 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Thrilled to announce that my survey paper has been accepted at #EMNLP2025 Main! ๐ŸŽ‰

To our knowledge, this is the first comprehensive survey dedicated to multilingual explainability.

๐Ÿ“„ Preprint: openreview.net/forum?id=KQj...

w/ Anna Korhonen, @iaugenstein.bsky.social

#NLP #ExplainableAI

28.08.2025 14:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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๐ŸŽ‰ Our work on attribution in summarization is now accepted to #EMNLP2025 main! ๐ŸŽ‰

"Unstructured Evidence Attribution for Long Context Query Focused Summarization"

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

25.08.2025 11:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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!

21.08.2025 13:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ™‹ How do Large Language Models internally process cultural knowledge? ๐ŸŒ

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

๐Ÿ“ƒ Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2508.08879

16.08.2025 12:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿš€ Excited to share our new preprint: BiasGym: Fantastic LLM Biases and How to Find (and Remove) Them

๐Ÿ“„ Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2508.08855

15.08.2025 10:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

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

04.08.2025 09:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Meet @iaugenstein.bsky.social, Prof at University of Copenhagen ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ, ELLIS Scholar, and member of ELLIS Unit Copenhagen (@aicentre.dk) + ELLIS Program #NLProc.

Her advice to young women in science: โ€œSuccess isn't just about tech skills. It's also about managing your career.โ€

#WomenInELLIS

30.07.2025 08:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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CopeNLU will give five paper presentations and one invited talk at #ACL2025NLP this week โคต๏ธ
@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

28.07.2025 05:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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And thanks again to all organisers and volunteers -- couldn't have done it without you ๐Ÿ˜Š
@rnv.bsky.social @apepa.bsky.social @dustinbwright.com

27.07.2025 11:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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

27.07.2025 11:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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!

27.07.2025 11:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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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 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 28    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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๐ŸŽ“ Looking for PhD opportunities in #NLProc for a start in Spring 2026?

๐Ÿ—’๏ธ 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 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The LEADING reporting guideline is now published in Comprehensive Psychiatry ๐Ÿฅณ

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

Or read the previous summary ๐Ÿ‘‡

16.06.2025 11:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

โฐ Poster submission deadline TODAY for the pre-@aclmeeting.bsky.social Workshop ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ
๐Ÿ“… 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 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Join us in Copenhagen for the Pre-ACL 2025 Workshop! ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ

Weโ€™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 โ€“ just ahead of ACL 2025 in Vienna.

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

28.05.2025 15:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

โฐ Only one week left to apply for this fully funded PhD fellowship at the University of Copenhagen & @aicentre.dk ! Donโ€™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 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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BCS IRSG Karen Spรคrck 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 yearโ€™s winner of the Karen Spรคrck 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!

30.04.2025 10:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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

28.04.2025 15:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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

28.04.2025 15:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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