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NLPnorth Group Photo

Figure 1: The NLPnorth research unit in the Data Science section 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
 Lucía Gómez-Zaragozá
Lucía Gómez-Zaragozá
Speech & Multimodel Models
 Arturo Valdivia
Arturo Valdivia
Responsible AI
 Nikolas Vitsakis
Nikolas Vitsakis
Responsible NLP
 Amelie Wührl
Amelie Wührl
Explainable and Transparent NLP

PhD Fellows

Nils Grünefeld
Nils Grünefeld
Uncertainty Estimation
 Arzu Burcu Güven
Arzu Burcu Güven
Linguistic Analyses of
Language Models
 Bertram Højer
Bertram Højer
AI Reasoning,
Representation Learning
 Andreas Geert Motzfeldt
Andreas Geert Motzfeldt
Language Models for Patient Documentation
 Mattes Ruckdeschel
Mattes Ruckdeschel
Explainable and Transparent NLP
 Johannes Gabriel Sindlinger
Johannes Gabriel Sindlinger
Explainable and Transparent NLP

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
 Anastasiia Sedova
Anastasiia Sedova
Model Explainability & Trustworthiness

Visiting Scholars

Zhuojun Gu
Zhuojun Gu
Guest researcher from VIRTU Research Group
(2025-2027)

PhD Graduates

David Sasu
David Sasu
Prosodic Prominence
 Marija Stepanović
Marija Stepanović
Speech Processing
 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

All our funded positions will be advertised on the ITU website. There are also other oppurtunities by applying for your own project hosted by NLPnorth. More information can be found on our opportunities page.

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: Head of research group Stefan Heinrich (stehe@itu.dk); our individual e-mails can be found on our personal webpages

Twitter

@NLPnorth

Bluesky

@nlpnorth.bsky.social