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Isabelle Augenstein @iaugenstein.bsky.social · 5d

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

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Isabelle Augenstein @iaugenstein.bsky.social · 5d

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 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...

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Isabelle Augenstein @iaugenstein.bsky.social · Sep 1

- 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

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

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Isabelle Augenstein @iaugenstein.bsky.social · Sep 1

📣 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

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Lucas Resck @lucasresck.bsky.social · Aug 28

Thrilled to announce that my survey paper has been accepted at #EMNLP2025 Main! 🎉

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

📄 Preprint: openreview.net/forum?id=KQj...

w/ Anna Korhonen, @iaugenstein.bsky.social

#NLP #ExplainableAI

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Dustin Wright @dustinbwright.com · Aug 25

🎉 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

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Arnav Arora @rnv.bsky.social · Aug 21

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!

Arnav Arora @rnv.bsky.social · Apr 7

🚨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

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Haeun Yu @haeunyu.bsky.social · Aug 16

🙋 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

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Sekh (Sk) Mainul Islam @sekh-copenlu.bsky.social · Aug 15

🚀 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

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CopeNLU @copenlu.bsky.social · Aug 4

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

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ELLIS @ellis.eu · Jul 30

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 @copenlu.bsky.social · Jul 28

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

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Isabelle Augenstein @iaugenstein.bsky.social · Jul 27

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

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Isabelle Augenstein @iaugenstein.bsky.social · Jul 27

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

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Isabelle Augenstein @iaugenstein.bsky.social · Jul 27

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!

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Isabelle Augenstein @iaugenstein.bsky.social · Jul 27

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

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Isabelle Augenstein @iaugenstein.bsky.social · Jun 27

🎓 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...

Microsoft Forms

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Veerle Eijsbroek @veerleceline.bsky.social · Jun 16

The LEADING reporting guideline is now published in Comprehensive Psychiatry 🥳

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

Or read the previous summary 👇

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Pepa Atanasova @apepa.bsky.social · Jun 16

⏰ Poster submission deadline TODAY for the [email protected] 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

Pioneer Centre for AI @aicentre.dk · May 28

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...

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Pioneer Centre for AI @aicentre.dk · May 28

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...

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Pepa Atanasova @apepa.bsky.social · May 8

⏰ 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

Pepa Atanasova @apepa.bsky.social · Apr 11

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

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.

www.copenlu.com

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BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group @bcs-irsg.bsky.social · Apr 30

@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!

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)

https://medium.com/bcs-irsg-informer/bcs-irsg-karen-spärck-jones-ksj-award-2024-prize-giving-and-keynote-at-ecir-2025-4875c2759961

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CopeNLU @copenlu.bsky.social · Apr 28

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

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CopeNLU @copenlu.bsky.social · Apr 28

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

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CopeNLU @copenlu.bsky.social · Apr 28

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
bsky.app/profile/frim... #NLProc

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