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MaiNLP research lab

Welcome! We are the Munich AI & NLP (MaiNLP, pronounced “myNLP”) research lab at the Center for Information and Language Processing (CIS), LMU Munich, directed by Prof. Dr. Barbara Plank. We carry out research in Natural Language Processing, an interdisciplinary subdiscipline of Artificial Intelligence at the interface of computer science, linguistics and cognitive science. In broad terms, our aim is human-facing NLP: to make NLP models more robust and inclusive, so that they can deal better with underlying shifts in data due to language variation, are fairer and embrace human label variation.

News

  • August 14, 2024: Barbara gave a keynote at ACL 2024 in Bangkok this year
  • July 10, 2024: We co-organized a panel on embracing variability in natural language processing at ICLaVE|12
  • July 5, 2024: Max successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations!
  • July 1, 2024: Elisa successfully defended her PhD thesis. Congratulations!
  • May 13, 2024: On-site talk by Matthias Orlikowski (Bielefeld University)
  • May 6, 2024: On-site talk by Dr. Russa Biwas (Hasso-Plattner Institute, Potsdam)
  • April 30, 2024: Our new DIALECT project webpage is online
  • April 8, 2024: On-site talk by Hyewon Jang (University of Konstanz)
  • March 22, 2024: Interested in Uncertainty and NLP? We are part of the First Workshop on Uncertainty-aware NLP @ EACL 2024
  • March 7, 2024: Mike successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations!
  • January 24, 2024: On-site talk by Dr. Rob van der Goot (IT University of Copenhagen)
To earlier events at MaiNLP.

Research Staff

Portrait (Barbara Plank)

Barbara Plank

Prof. Dr. and Chair for AI and Computational Linguistics, Head of MaiNLP and Co-director CIS
Portrait (Elena Senger)

Elena Senger

External PhD student (2023–), Fraunhofer IMW
Portrait (Joris Baan)

Joris Baan

Affiliated ELLIS PhD student (2021–), University of Amsterdam

Support Staff

Portrait (Oliver Kraus)

Oliver Kraus

Scientific programmer (2024–)
Portrait (Anyi Wang (2024-))

Anyi Wang (2024-)

Student assistant (2023–)
Portrait (Sebastian Loftus)

Sebastian Loftus

Student assistant (2023–)
Portrait (Chengzhi Hu)

Chengzhi Hu

Student assistant (2023–)
Portrait (Miriam Winkler)

Miriam Winkler

Student assistant (2023–)
Portrait (Huangyan Shan)

Huangyan Shan

Student assistant (2023–)

Administrative Staff

Portrait (Paravee Jungbauer)

Paravee Jungbauer

Assistant
Portrait (Karl Ischebeck)

Karl Ischebeck

IT technician, system administrator

Affiliated members (e.g. co-supervisors, co-supervised or mentored external PhD students, guest researchers and visitors)

Portrait (Wilker Aziz)

Wilker Aziz

Assistant Professor at University of Amsterdam, co-supervisor
Portrait (Anna Korhonen)

Anna Korhonen

Full professor at University of Cambridge, co-supervisor
Portrait (Saif M. Mohammad)

Saif M. Mohammad

Senior Research Scientist at the National Research Council Canada (NRC)
Portrait (Bolei Ma)

Bolei Ma

External co-supervised PhD student, LMU
Portrait (Patrick Schwabl)

Patrick Schwabl

External mentored PhD student, Department of Media and Communication, LMU Munich
Portrait (Shanshan Xu)

Shanshan Xu

External mentored PhD student, Legal Tech group, Technical University of Munich
Portrait (Cornelia Gruber)

Cornelia Gruber

External mentored PhD student, Institute of Statistics, LMU

Support staff and student assistants for teaching

  • Ercong Nie (2022–2024)
  • Zonggen Li (2023–2024)
  • Kaiwei Lei (2024-)
  • Yurui Zhang (2024–)
  • Pingjun Hong (2024–)
  • Longfei Zuo (2024–)
  • Yuchen Mao (2024–)

You?

Join us! →Open positions

MaiNLP alumni

  • Zihang Sun (student assistant, 2023–2024)
  • Max Müller-Eberstein (PhD student ITU, 2020–2024), now postdoc at IT University of Copenhagen
  • Elisa Bassignana (PhD student ITU, 2020–2024), now postdoc at IT University of Copenhagen
  • Leon Weber-Genzel (postdoc, 2022–2024), now in industry
  • Mike Zhang (PhD student ITU, 2020–2024), now postdoc at Aalborg University, Copenhagen
  • Jian Lan (PhD student, 2023–2024)
  • Daniela Teodorescu (PhD student, 2023–2024)
  • Maria Barrett (postdoc ITU, 2020–2023), now at Silo AI
  • Katya Artemova (postdoc, 2022–2023), now at Toloka AI
  • Sondre Wold (visiting PhD student, University of Oslo, 2024)
  • Elena Lloret Pastor (visiting Professor, University of Alicante, 2024)
  • Kassem Sabeh (visiting PhD student, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, 2024)
  • Simone Ciciliano (visiting MA student, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, 2024)
  • Alberto Muñoz-Ortiz (visiting PhD student, Universidade da Coruña, 2023)
  • Barbara Kovačić (student assistant, 2023–2024)
  • Ivo S. Bueno Júnior (student assistant, 2023–2024)
  • Yang Sun (student assistant, 2023–2024)
  • Marie Kolm (student assistant, 2023)
  • Sif Dam Sonniks (student assistant, 2022–2023)
  • Bolei Ma (student assistant, 2022–2023), now PhD student at LMU
  • Anna Barwig (student assistant, 2022–2023)
  • Chaeeun Lee (student assistant, 2022–2023)

MaiNLP resources and code

You can find resources (data, code, repositories) released by MaiNLP lab members on our github page and on our huggingface page

Organizations

Our research is supported by: We are also part of:

Find us

We are located at Akademiestraße 7, 80799 Munich, Germany (→ directions).
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