Health NLP Lab
@health-nlp.com
Health NLP Lab at the University of Tübingen and Brown University
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@health-nlp.com
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Health NLP Lab here👋We research the intersection of Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, and Large Language Models — with a special focus on their applications in healthcare.
Get to know our lab and researchers: health-nlp.com
#AI #NLP #IR #LLM #DigitalHealth
Get to know our lab and researchers: health-nlp.com
#AI #NLP #IR #LLM #DigitalHealth
We are starting off 2026 with exciting news: Our paper "Beyond Multiple Choice: Evaluating Steering Vectors for Adaptive Free-Form Summarization" got accepted at #EACL2026!
✒️ Authors: Joschka Braun, Carsten Eickhoff, and Ali Bahrainian
📃 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.24859
✒️ Authors: Joschka Braun, Carsten Eickhoff, and Ali Bahrainian
📃 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.24859
Beyond Multiple Choice: Evaluating Steering Vectors for Adaptive Free-Form Summarization
Steering vectors are a lightweight method for controlling text properties by adding a learned bias to language model activations at inference time. So far, steering vectors have predominantly been…
arxiv.org
January 7, 2026 at 4:00 PM
We are starting off 2026 with exciting news: Our paper "Beyond Multiple Choice: Evaluating Steering Vectors for Adaptive Free-Form Summarization" got accepted at #EACL2026!
✒️ Authors: Joschka Braun, Carsten Eickhoff, and Ali Bahrainian
📃 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.24859
✒️ Authors: Joschka Braun, Carsten Eickhoff, and Ali Bahrainian
📃 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.24859
As we wrap up 2025, we’re grateful for a year of great ideas, meaningful discussions, and fruitful collaborations that help advance research and knowledge. Thank you to our collaborators, colleagues, and community; we look forward to continuing our endeavors in 2026. Wishing everyone happy holidays!
December 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
As we wrap up 2025, we’re grateful for a year of great ideas, meaningful discussions, and fruitful collaborations that help advance research and knowledge. Thank you to our collaborators, colleagues, and community; we look forward to continuing our endeavors in 2026. Wishing everyone happy holidays!
We’re excited to share that Dr. Shrestha Ghosh will be presenting her work at the IJCNLP–AACL 2025 (@aaclmeeting.bsky.social)
📍 Mumbai, India
🎤 Paper presentation: 22.12.2025 @ 14:45
🧠 Paper: "Cohort Discovery: A Survey on LLM-Assisted Clinical Trial Recruitment"
📍 Mumbai, India
🎤 Paper presentation: 22.12.2025 @ 14:45
🧠 Paper: "Cohort Discovery: A Survey on LLM-Assisted Clinical Trial Recruitment"
December 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
We’re excited to share that Dr. Shrestha Ghosh will be presenting her work at the IJCNLP–AACL 2025 (@aaclmeeting.bsky.social)
📍 Mumbai, India
🎤 Paper presentation: 22.12.2025 @ 14:45
🧠 Paper: "Cohort Discovery: A Survey on LLM-Assisted Clinical Trial Recruitment"
📍 Mumbai, India
🎤 Paper presentation: 22.12.2025 @ 14:45
🧠 Paper: "Cohort Discovery: A Survey on LLM-Assisted Clinical Trial Recruitment"
👋 Meet Gregory Polyakov: PhD researcher based in Tübingen! Gregory completed his Master’s in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at MIPT, and after working as an NLP research engineer at Huawei’s Noah’s Ark Lab, he joined the Health NLP Lab to dive deeper into academic ML research.
December 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM
👋 Meet Gregory Polyakov: PhD researcher based in Tübingen! Gregory completed his Master’s in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at MIPT, and after working as an NLP research engineer at Huawei’s Noah’s Ark Lab, he joined the Health NLP Lab to dive deeper into academic ML research.
#ResearchHighlight 🔬
Like many fields, drug discovery has been revolutionized by advances in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, and a key player has been molecular representation — turning molecules into machine-understandable and processable formats.
Like many fields, drug discovery has been revolutionized by advances in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, and a key player has been molecular representation — turning molecules into machine-understandable and processable formats.
December 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
#ResearchHighlight 🔬
Like many fields, drug discovery has been revolutionized by advances in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, and a key player has been molecular representation — turning molecules into machine-understandable and processable formats.
Like many fields, drug discovery has been revolutionized by advances in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, and a key player has been molecular representation — turning molecules into machine-understandable and processable formats.
👋 Meet Florian Rottach — Data Scientist at @boehringerglobal.bsky.social and PhD researcher in our lab!
He brings a unique interdisciplinary background and a passion for applying machine learning to life sciences.
#MeetTheLab
He brings a unique interdisciplinary background and a passion for applying machine learning to life sciences.
#MeetTheLab
December 2, 2025 at 11:01 AM
👋 Meet Florian Rottach — Data Scientist at @boehringerglobal.bsky.social and PhD researcher in our lab!
He brings a unique interdisciplinary background and a passion for applying machine learning to life sciences.
#MeetTheLab
He brings a unique interdisciplinary background and a passion for applying machine learning to life sciences.
#MeetTheLab
🗓️Today in San Diego: Dr. Shrestha Ghosh presents “Investigating RAG-based Approaches in Clinical Trial and Patient Matching” at #ML4H. Her work tests how RAG handles clinical-trial matching across varying task complexity, longitudinal evidence, and abstention—showing what truly drives performance.
December 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🗓️Today in San Diego: Dr. Shrestha Ghosh presents “Investigating RAG-based Approaches in Clinical Trial and Patient Matching” at #ML4H. Her work tests how RAG handles clinical-trial matching across varying task complexity, longitudinal evidence, and abstention—showing what truly drives performance.
Amina @amilah-dul.bsky.social presents her latest work on Knowledge Graphs at @wimlworkshop.bsky.social next week.
Building on her previous work (arxiv.org/abs/2502.13344), she extends KG-guided reasoning beyond biomedicine to broader knowledge discovery.
#ResearchHighligh #LLM #KnowledgeGraph
Building on her previous work (arxiv.org/abs/2502.13344), she extends KG-guided reasoning beyond biomedicine to broader knowledge discovery.
#ResearchHighligh #LLM #KnowledgeGraph
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Amina @amilah-dul.bsky.social presents her latest work on Knowledge Graphs at @wimlworkshop.bsky.social next week.
Building on her previous work (arxiv.org/abs/2502.13344), she extends KG-guided reasoning beyond biomedicine to broader knowledge discovery.
#ResearchHighligh #LLM #KnowledgeGraph
Building on her previous work (arxiv.org/abs/2502.13344), she extends KG-guided reasoning beyond biomedicine to broader knowledge discovery.
#ResearchHighligh #LLM #KnowledgeGraph
#NeurIPS2025 is on the horizon!
Kicking off with a key position paper: “Benchmarking is Broken: Don’t Let AI Be Its Own Judge.” (arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07575)
As AI use explodes, our evaluation methods lag behind. This work calls for a unified, trustworthy framework for judging AI.
Kicking off with a key position paper: “Benchmarking is Broken: Don’t Let AI Be Its Own Judge.” (arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07575)
As AI use explodes, our evaluation methods lag behind. This work calls for a unified, trustworthy framework for judging AI.
November 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
#NeurIPS2025 is on the horizon!
Kicking off with a key position paper: “Benchmarking is Broken: Don’t Let AI Be Its Own Judge.” (arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07575)
As AI use explodes, our evaluation methods lag behind. This work calls for a unified, trustworthy framework for judging AI.
Kicking off with a key position paper: “Benchmarking is Broken: Don’t Let AI Be Its Own Judge.” (arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07575)
As AI use explodes, our evaluation methods lag behind. This work calls for a unified, trustworthy framework for judging AI.
#FeatureFriday 🎉
Dr. William Rudman, an outstanding Health NLP Lab alumnus, earned his PhD at Brown and is now a Postdoc at UT Austin’s Center for Scientific ML. His work spans LLM/VLM interpretability and now astronomy.
#HealthNLP #AI #LLM #VLM
Dr. William Rudman, an outstanding Health NLP Lab alumnus, earned his PhD at Brown and is now a Postdoc at UT Austin’s Center for Scientific ML. His work spans LLM/VLM interpretability and now astronomy.
#HealthNLP #AI #LLM #VLM
November 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
#FeatureFriday 🎉
Dr. William Rudman, an outstanding Health NLP Lab alumnus, earned his PhD at Brown and is now a Postdoc at UT Austin’s Center for Scientific ML. His work spans LLM/VLM interpretability and now astronomy.
#HealthNLP #AI #LLM #VLM
Dr. William Rudman, an outstanding Health NLP Lab alumnus, earned his PhD at Brown and is now a Postdoc at UT Austin’s Center for Scientific ML. His work spans LLM/VLM interpretability and now astronomy.
#HealthNLP #AI #LLM #VLM
Meet Dr. Harrisen Scells (@hscells.bsky.social): An Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at Leipzig University, who joined our lab earlier this year as an Assistant Professor to expand the boundaries of medical applications in information retrieval. Proud to have him on our team!
November 17, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Meet Dr. Harrisen Scells (@hscells.bsky.social): An Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at Leipzig University, who joined our lab earlier this year as an Assistant Professor to expand the boundaries of medical applications in information retrieval. Proud to have him on our team!
#ResearchHighlight How can AI ask smarter questions about our planet—going beyond pixels?
Siran Li explored this back in EPFL, leading to an IEEE paper on a knowledge-aware approach to visual question generation for remote sensing.
Paper: ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc...
Siran Li explored this back in EPFL, leading to an IEEE paper on a knowledge-aware approach to visual question generation for remote sensing.
Paper: ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc...
November 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
#ResearchHighlight How can AI ask smarter questions about our planet—going beyond pixels?
Siran Li explored this back in EPFL, leading to an IEEE paper on a knowledge-aware approach to visual question generation for remote sensing.
Paper: ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc...
Siran Li explored this back in EPFL, leading to an IEEE paper on a knowledge-aware approach to visual question generation for remote sensing.
Paper: ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc...
📸 Snapshots from last week’s EMNLP 2025 — an inspiring week of research, collaboration, and conversations!
Proud of our researchers for contributing to such a vibrant and innovative NLP community.
#EMNLP2025 #AIResearch #NLProc #HealthNLP #InformationRetrieval #Interpretability
Proud of our researchers for contributing to such a vibrant and innovative NLP community.
#EMNLP2025 #AIResearch #NLProc #HealthNLP #InformationRetrieval #Interpretability
November 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
📸 Snapshots from last week’s EMNLP 2025 — an inspiring week of research, collaboration, and conversations!
Proud of our researchers for contributing to such a vibrant and innovative NLP community.
#EMNLP2025 #AIResearch #NLProc #HealthNLP #InformationRetrieval #Interpretability
Proud of our researchers for contributing to such a vibrant and innovative NLP community.
#EMNLP2025 #AIResearch #NLProc #HealthNLP #InformationRetrieval #Interpretability
👋 Meet Siran, one of our PhD researchers in Tübingen!
After her master’s in Electrical Engineering at EPFL, she joined us to explore new frontiers in AI research.
Outside the lab, she enjoys volleyball, skiing in the Alps, and playing piano.
#MeetTheLab #PhDLife #AIResearch #GenAI #HealthNLP
After her master’s in Electrical Engineering at EPFL, she joined us to explore new frontiers in AI research.
Outside the lab, she enjoys volleyball, skiing in the Alps, and playing piano.
#MeetTheLab #PhDLife #AIResearch #GenAI #HealthNLP
November 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM
👋 Meet Siran, one of our PhD researchers in Tübingen!
After her master’s in Electrical Engineering at EPFL, she joined us to explore new frontiers in AI research.
Outside the lab, she enjoys volleyball, skiing in the Alps, and playing piano.
#MeetTheLab #PhDLife #AIResearch #GenAI #HealthNLP
After her master’s in Electrical Engineering at EPFL, she joined us to explore new frontiers in AI research.
Outside the lab, she enjoys volleyball, skiing in the Alps, and playing piano.
#MeetTheLab #PhDLife #AIResearch #GenAI #HealthNLP
Our lab's papers at #EMNLP2025, spanning themes of #Interpretability, #Transparency, #Explainability, #Multilinguality, and #InformationRetrieval.
November 4, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Our lab's papers at #EMNLP2025, spanning themes of #Interpretability, #Transparency, #Explainability, #Multilinguality, and #InformationRetrieval.
Big week ahead! Our researchers are heading to #EMNLP2025 with 5 papers, and our grant team will be at @ihieurope.bsky.social Brokerage Event — stay tuned for updates and highlights throughout the week!
November 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Big week ahead! Our researchers are heading to #EMNLP2025 with 5 papers, and our grant team will be at @ihieurope.bsky.social Brokerage Event — stay tuned for updates and highlights throughout the week!
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We are looking for several postdoctoral researchers to join our Norms & Practices Lab! This is an exciting opportunity for scholars of #philosophy, #law, #culturalanthropology, and (qualitative) #socialscience: uni-tuebingen.de/en/128980#c2... 1/2
November 3, 2025 at 11:26 AM
We are looking for several postdoctoral researchers to join our Norms & Practices Lab! This is an exciting opportunity for scholars of #philosophy, #law, #culturalanthropology, and (qualitative) #socialscience: uni-tuebingen.de/en/128980#c2... 1/2
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Throwback to our conference #MLinScience2025 last week!
It was wonderful to see so many of you at the event. The talks and poster session were fantastic - a big thank you to all our speakers and presenters! (Photos: Elia Schmid/University of Tübingen)1/3
It was wonderful to see so many of you at the event. The talks and poster session were fantastic - a big thank you to all our speakers and presenters! (Photos: Elia Schmid/University of Tübingen)1/3
October 10, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Throwback to our conference #MLinScience2025 last week!
It was wonderful to see so many of you at the event. The talks and poster session were fantastic - a big thank you to all our speakers and presenters! (Photos: Elia Schmid/University of Tübingen)1/3
It was wonderful to see so many of you at the event. The talks and poster session were fantastic - a big thank you to all our speakers and presenters! (Photos: Elia Schmid/University of Tübingen)1/3
#FeatureFriday 🎉 Back in April, Dr. @jackmerullo.bsky.social defended his PhD and became an alumnus of Health NLP Lab. We had a great time working with him and wish him all the best! He’s now a Research Scientist at Goodfire, exploring #AI #interpretability.
October 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM
#FeatureFriday 🎉 Back in April, Dr. @jackmerullo.bsky.social defended his PhD and became an alumnus of Health NLP Lab. We had a great time working with him and wish him all the best! He’s now a Research Scientist at Goodfire, exploring #AI #interpretability.
We were thrilled to host Prof. Kentaro Inui from MBZUAI at the Health NLP Lab this week! His talk on knowledge representations in LLMs sparked fascinating discussions and new ideas across the group.
#NLP #AIResearch #LLMs #KnowledgeRepresentation
#NLP #AIResearch #LLMs #KnowledgeRepresentation
October 24, 2025 at 10:05 AM
We were thrilled to host Prof. Kentaro Inui from MBZUAI at the Health NLP Lab this week! His talk on knowledge representations in LLMs sparked fascinating discussions and new ideas across the group.
#NLP #AIResearch #LLMs #KnowledgeRepresentation
#NLP #AIResearch #LLMs #KnowledgeRepresentation
#ThrowbackThursday to Prof. Carsten Eickhoff’s CIIR Talk on “Uncertainty in Information Retrieval,” exploring how uncertainty estimation can reveal hidden biases in search engines and improve #fairness.
🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_eW...
#InformationRetrieval #HealthNLP #IR
🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_eW...
#InformationRetrieval #HealthNLP #IR
CIIR Talk Series - 2/17/2023: Carsten Eickhoff - Uncertainty in Information Retrieval?
YouTube video by CIIR Talk Series
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October 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM
#ThrowbackThursday to Prof. Carsten Eickhoff’s CIIR Talk on “Uncertainty in Information Retrieval,” exploring how uncertainty estimation can reveal hidden biases in search engines and improve #fairness.
🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_eW...
#InformationRetrieval #HealthNLP #IR
🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_eW...
#InformationRetrieval #HealthNLP #IR
Last Friday, researchers from the Health NLP Lab and other groups at @unituebingen.bsky.social shared their latest projects and visions on AI and Data in healthcare with the Dean's office of the Medical Faculty. Great energy and inspiring discussions! 💡🤖
#HealthNLP #AIinHealthcare #DigitalHealth
#HealthNLP #AIinHealthcare #DigitalHealth
October 16, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Last Friday, researchers from the Health NLP Lab and other groups at @unituebingen.bsky.social shared their latest projects and visions on AI and Data in healthcare with the Dean's office of the Medical Faculty. Great energy and inspiring discussions! 💡🤖
#HealthNLP #AIinHealthcare #DigitalHealth
#HealthNLP #AIinHealthcare #DigitalHealth
Health NLP Lab here👋We research the intersection of Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, and Large Language Models — with a special focus on their applications in healthcare.
Get to know our lab and researchers: health-nlp.com
#AI #NLP #IR #LLM #DigitalHealth
Get to know our lab and researchers: health-nlp.com
#AI #NLP #IR #LLM #DigitalHealth
October 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Health NLP Lab here👋We research the intersection of Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, and Large Language Models — with a special focus on their applications in healthcare.
Get to know our lab and researchers: health-nlp.com
#AI #NLP #IR #LLM #DigitalHealth
Get to know our lab and researchers: health-nlp.com
#AI #NLP #IR #LLM #DigitalHealth