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

December 6, 2024: Federica Manzi won an award for her MSc thesis on sexism detection in Italian newspapers at CLIC-it 2024
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

Support Staff

Oliver Kraus

Scientific programmer (2024–)

Sebastian Loftus

Student assistant (2023–)

Chengzhi Hu

Student assistant (2023–)

Miriam Winkler

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)

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–)

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MaiNLP alumni

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)
Huangyan Shan (student assistant, 2023–2025)
Anyi Wang (student assistant, 2024–2025)
Zihang Sun (student assistant, 2023–2024)
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:

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)

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Find us

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