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
Postdocs
PhD Fellows
External Affiliated Members
Research Assistants & Support Staff
- Alejandra Navarro Castillo
- Oliver Simon Jarvis
PhD Graduates
Visiting Scholars
- Weerayut Buaphet (visiting PhD, VISTEC, 2024-2025)
- Andrea Giordano (intern, Politecnico di Torino, 2024)
- Hamidreza Amirzadeh (visiting researcher, Sharif University of Technology, 2024)
- Sadegh Jafari (visiting researcher, Iran University of Science & Technology, 2024)
- Anika Harju (visiting researcher, 2024)
- Irene Siragusa (visiting researcher, Università degli Studi di Palermo, 2024)
- Mehdi Parviz (visiting researcher, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, 2024)
- Tanja Samardžić (visiting researcher, University of Zurich, 2022)
- Sajawel Ahmed (visiting PhD, Goethe University Frankfurt, 2022)
- Ahmet Üstün (visiting PhD, 2019)
- Alan Ramponi (visiting PhD, 2019-2020)
- Joris Baan (affiliated visiting PhD, 2022)
- Anouk Braggaar (intern, 2020-2021)
- Musie Meressa Berhe (intern, 2020-2021)
Other Alumni
- Peter Brunsgaard Trolle (research assistant, 2023-2024)
- Sigrid Klerke (postdoctoral researcher, 2018-2019)
- Dagmara Płonska (postdoctoral researcher, 2020-2021)
- Kristian Nørgaard Jensen (research assistant, 2020-2022)
- Sif Dam Sonniks (research assistant, 2020–2022)
- Ida Thrane (research assistant, 2020–2021)
- Simon Poulsen (research assistant, 2020-2021)
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]
BiLSTM-Aux
BiLSTM sequence tagger in DyNet with multi-task learning / CRF / lexicon + contextual embedding support.[tool] [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]
UD Frisian FAME
Dependency annotations for a subset of the Frisian FAME! speech corpus.[data] [paper]
MaChAmp
Multi-task learning toolkit for sequence labeling, classification, generation, masked LM, dependency parsing and more.[tool] [paper] [demo]
Jobs
PhD position: Linguistic competence of language models in prompt interpretation and text generation
Deadline: April 15.
Co-supervisors: Anna Rogers and Rob Van Der Goot
Application link: External
2 more PhD and 2 postdoc positions are coming up, stay tuned!
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
Corridor 3E, Rued Langgaards Vej 7, 2300 København S
Contact: group coordinator Rob van der Goot (robv@itu.dk); our individual e-mails can be found on our personal webpages