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NLPnorth Group Photo

Figure 1: The NLPnorth research unit at the Computer Science department of the IT University of Copenhagen is a team of faculty, postdocs, PhD students, assistants and students who work together on fundamental and applied problems for computational understanding of human languages and speech.

Members

Full-time Faculty

Rob van der Goot
Rob van der Goot
Robustness
 Christian Hardmeier
Christian Hardmeier
Multilinguality, Discourse and Uncertainty
 Stefan Heinrich
Stefan Heinrich
Cognitive Modelling
 Anna Rogers
Anna Rogers
Analysis and Evaluation of Language Models
 Ratish Puduppully
Ratish Puduppully
Neurosymbolic methods, Multilinguality

Postdocs

Elisa Bassignana
Elisa Bassignana
Computational Social Science
 Max Müller-Eberstein
Max Müller-Eberstein
Learning Dynamics

PhD Fellows

David Sasu
David Sasu
Prosodic Prominence
 Marija Stepanović
Marija Stepanović
Speech Processing
 Bertram Højer
Bertram Højer
AI Reasoning,
Representation Learning
 Arzu Burcu Güven
Arzu Burcu Güven
Linguistic analyses of
Language Models
 Andreas Geert Motzfeldt
Andreas Geert Motzfeldt
Language Models for Patient Documentation

External Affiliated Members

Maria Barrett
Maria Barrett
Cognitive Linguistics
 Leon Derczynski
Leon Derczynski
Efficiency, Security, Online Harms
 Barbara Plank
Barbara Plank
Transfer Learning
 Natalie Schluter
Natalie Schluter
Hard Computational Models

Research Assistants & Support Staff

Alejandra Navarro Castillo
Alejandra Navarro Castillo
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Oliver Simon Jarvis

Visiting Scholars

Weerayut Buaphet
Weerayut Buaphet
Visiting PhD from VISTEC
(2024-2025)
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Andrea Giordano
MSc Intern from Politecnico di Torino
(2024)

PhD Graduates

Dennis Ulmer
Dennis Ulmer
Uncertainty Estimation
 Elisa Bassignana
Elisa Bassignana
Computational Social Science
 Max Müller-Eberstein
Max Müller-Eberstein
Representation Learning
 Mike Zhang
Mike Zhang
Aalborg University
 Daniel Varab
Daniel Varab (2023)
DFKI

Past Visiting Scholars

Other Alumni

Publications

Our most recent research outputs, with more over ITU's PURE.

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Resources

Awesome Neural Adaptation

Survey of awesome work on neural unsupervised domain adaptation.
[repo] [paper]

BeeSL

Biomedical event extraction as sequence labelling.
[tool] [paper]

BiLSTM-Aux

BiLSTM sequence tagger in DyNet with multi-task learning / CRF / lexicon + contextual embedding support.
[tool] [paper]

CiteTracked

A longitudinal dataset of peer reviews and citations.
[paper]

DaCoref

Danish Coreference Dataset.
[data]

DaN+ Corpus

Danish Nested Named Entities and Lexical Normalization.
[data] [paper]

DaNewsroom

A Large-scale Danish Summarisation Dataset.
[data] [paper]

Danish NER

Evaluation Dataset for Danish Named Entity Recognition.
[data] [paper]

DDT

Danish Universal Dependencies Treebank.
[data] [paper]

DeepSig

Significance testing implementations, including Almost Stochastic Order, bootstrap and permutation.
[tool]

EMNLP 2021 PhD Course

Communicating state-of-the-art NLP research to a broader audience.
[blogs] [course]

EWT-NNER

Nested Named Entities for the English Web Treebank.
[data] [paper]

UD Frisian FAME

Dependency annotations for a subset of the Frisian FAME! speech corpus.
[data] [paper]

FTSpeech

A Danish speech corpus created from meetings of the Danish Parliament.
[data] [paper]

JobStack

Annotations for entities in job postings.
[data] [paper]

MaChAmp

Multi-task learning toolkit for sequence labeling, classification, generation, masked LM, dependency parsing and more.
[tool] [paper] [demo]

UniParse

Universal graph-based modular parsing framework for quick prototyping and comparison of parsers and parser components.
[tool] [paper]

xSID

Multilingual slot and intent detection.
[tool] [paper]

Jobs

Prospective PhD students and postdocs may consider applying for a yearly opportunity for getting your own funding via DDSA fellowships (see 2023 call for PhD and postdoc fellowships), with application deadlines about February. If you have an idea that matches the area of one of our full-time faculty, you are welcome to them directly. Please reach out introducing yourself and stating why you are interested in working with them specifically, as well as your background and any relevant experience.

PhD Life at NLPnorth

What would it be like to do a PhD in Denmark and ITU? Here's some experiences shared by NLPnorth PhD students.

Reach Out

ITU building

Corridor 3E, Rued Langgaards Vej 7, 2300 København S

ITU people

Contact: group coordinator Rob van der Goot (robv@itu.dk); our individual e-mails can be found on our personal webpages

Twitter

@NLPnorth