About Me

I am full professor and chair for AI and Computational Linguistics at LMU Munich, Head of the Munich AI and NLP (MaiNLP) lab, and co-director of the Center for Information and Language Processing (CIS). I am also a visiting full professor at the IT University of Copenhagen.

Research Interests

• Learning under sample selection bias (domain adaptation, transfer learning) and annotation bias
• Learning under limited data, continual learning, semi-supervised and weakly-supervised machine learning applied to cross-domain and cross-language natural language processing.
• Multimodal learning, including learning at the language and vision or speech interface and learning from human data
• Fortuitous supervision to enable variety-space aware natural language understanding

Current Projects

• ERC Consolidator DIALECT project: Natural Language Understanding for non-standard languages and dialects
• KLIMA-MEMES project website

News

• [Aug 2024] Keynote speaker at ACL 2024 in Bangkok.
• [Feb 2024] Keynote speaker at the First Workshop on NLP for Human Resources in Malta, EACL 2024.
• [Feb 2024] Keynote speaker at the First D3A 2024 conference in Nyborg Strand. Talk on “Human-facing Natural Language Processing”
• [Jan 2024] I got elected VP-Elect for the ACL!
• [Sep 2023] I run as VP-Elect for ACL. The elections are open now. You can vote until October 31, 2023.
• [Sep 2023] Keynote speaker at GCPR 2023 in Heidelberg. Talk on “Human-centric Natural Language Processing”
• [Sep 2023] Keynote speaker at CLEF 2023 in Thessaloniki. Talk on “Human-centric Natural Language Processing”
• [Jul 2023] Keynote speaker at Text+ 2023 conference in Mannheim. Talk on “How and Why to Deal with Human Label Variation in NLP”
• [May 2023] Tutorial at the AILC summer school in Pisa
• [Jun 2022] Keynote speaker at CliC-It 2021, Milan
• [Jun 2022] Keynote speaker at SAIS 2022, Stockholm
• [May 2022] Keynote speaker at ACL Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in NLP, Dublin