MaiNLP research lab
Welcome! We are the Munich AI & NLP (MaiNLP) research lab at the Center for Information and Language Processing (CIS) at 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 to make NLP models more robust, so that they can deal better with underlying shifts in data due to language variation.
News
- 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
- January 24, 2024: On-site talk by Dr. Rob van der Goot (IT University of Copenhagen)
Research Staff
Barbara Plank
Prof. Dr. and Chair for AI and Computational Linguistics, Head of MaiNLP and Co-director CIS
Diego Frassinelli
Dr., Lecturer (part-time)
Siyao (Logan) Peng
Postdoc (2023–)
Robert Litschko
Postdoc (2022–)
Beiduo Chen
ELLIS PhD student (2024–)
Jian Lan
PhD student (2023–)
Philipp Mondorf
PhD student (2023–)
Daniela Teodorescu
PhD student (2023–)
Xinpeng Wang
PhD student (2022–)
Verena Blaschke
PhD student (2022–)
Elena Senger
External PhD student (2023–), Fraunhofer IMW
Joris Baan
Affiliated ELLIS PhD student (2021–), University of Amsterdam
Elisa Bassignana
Affiliated PhD student (2020–2024), IT University of Copenhagen
Max Müller-Eberstein
Affiliated PhD student (2020–2024), IT University of Copenhagen
Support Staff
Oliver Kraus
Scientific programmer (2024–)
Shijia Zhou
Student assistant (2024–)
Sebastian Loftus
Student assistant (2023–)
Chengzhi Hu
Student assistant (2023–)
Miriam Winkler
Student assistant (2023–)
Zihang Sun
Student assistant (2023–)
Huangyan Shan
Student assistant (2023–)
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)
Rob van der Goot
Associate professor at ITU
Raquel Fernández
Professor at UvA
Wilker Aziz
Assistant Professor at UvA
Saif M. Mohammad
Senior Research Scientist at the National Research Council Canada (NRC)
Shengqiang Zhang
External co-supervised PhD student (2022–)
Patrick Schwabl
External mentored PhD student, Department of Media and Communication, LMU Munich
Shanshan Xu
External mentored PhD student, Legal Tech group, Technical University of Munich
Cornelia Gruber
External mentored PhD student, Institute of Statistics, LMU
Kassem Sabeh
Visiting PhD student, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Support staff and student assistants for teaching
- Ercong Nie (2022–2024)
- Shijia Zhou (2022–2024)
- Zonggen Li (2023–2024)
- Yurui Zhang (2024–)
You?
Join us! →Open positionsMaiNLP alumni
- Leon Weber-Genzel (Postdoc, 2022–2024), now in industry
- Mike Zhang (PhD student ITU, 2020–2024), now postdoc at Aalborg University, Copenhagen
- Maria Barrett (postdoc ITU, 2020–2023), now at Silo AI
- Katya Artemova (postdoc, 2022–2023), now at Toloka AI
- Simone Ciciliano (visiting MA student, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, 2024)
- Alberto Muñoz-Ortiz (visiting scholar, 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 pageOrganizations
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)
Find us
We are located at Akademiestraße 7, 80799 Munich, Germany (→ directions).MaiNLP
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