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

July 3, 2025: Barbara gives an invited Hermann-Paul lecture at the Center for Advanced Studies in Freiburg (FRIAS)
June 24 and 26, 2025: Felicia gives three workshops on AI for second- and third-grade students, organized with the Munich Center for Machine Learning and Gemeinde Bücherei Eching
May 27, 2025: Janet gives a talk at the Computational Linguistics Colloquium of the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies
May 2025: We are co-organizing the First Workshop on Bridging NLP and Public Opinion Research (NLPOR) at COLM 2025 in Montreal, October 10, 2025
May 3, 2025: Verena gives a keynote at the WNUT workshop at NAACL 2025 (10th Workshop on Noisy and User-generated Text) in Albuquerque
Jan 29, 2025: Barbara gives the keynote lecture on "Foundations of AI" at the LMU grand AI-HUB opening in Munich
Jan 19, 2025: Barbara gives a keynote at the CoMeDi workshop at COLING 2025 (Context and Meaning—Navigating Disagreements in NLP Annotations) in Abu Dhabi

To earlier events at MaiNLP.

Research Staff

Leah Michel

External PhD student (2025–), Siemens

Support Staff

Oliver Kraus

Scientific programmer (2024–)

Sebastian Loftus

Student assistant (2023–)

Chengzhi Hu

Student assistant (2023–)

Miriam Winkler

Student assistant (2023–)

Xinyuan Cheng

Student assistant (2025–)

Administrative Staff

Paravee Jungbauer

Assistant

Karl Ischebeck

IT technician, system administrator

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

Arnisa Fazla

External co-supervised PhD student, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam (UvA)

Walter Paci

Visiting PhD, Università degli Studi di Firenze (2025)

Support staff and student assistants for teaching

Ercong Nie (2022–)
Zonggen Li (2023–)
Yurui Zhang (2024–)
Pingjun Hong (2024–)
Longfei Zuo (2024–)
Yuchen Mao (2024–)
Darja Jepifanova (2025-)

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MaiNLP alumni

Shanshan Xu (External mentored PhD student TUM, 2023-2025), now postdoc at University of Copenhagen
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
Huangyan Shan (student assistant, 2023–2025)
Anyi Wang (student assistant, 2024–2025)
Kaiwei Lei (student assistant, 2024)
Zihang Sun (student assistant, 2023–2024)
Barbara Kovačić (student assistant, 2023–2024)
Ivo S. Bueno Júnior (student assistant, 2023–2024), now PhD student at TUM
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 alumni visitors

Anne-Marie Lutgen (visiting PhD student, Luxembourg University, 2025)
Yupei Du (visiting PhD student, Utrecht University, 2025)
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)

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:

European Research Council (ERC) project DIALECT
Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond (DFF), Sapere Aude Research Leader grant
Bayerische Staatsregierung HTA
Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML)
Bayerisches Forschungsinstitut für Digitale Transformation (bidt)

We are also part of:

Find us

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