
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. 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
- October 2023: Interested in NLP and linguistic variation? Check out the Multi* workshop which we are organizing (October 5-6 at ITU Copenhagen)
- September/October 2023: Do you speak a German dialect and have 10–15 min to spare? Please fill out our survey to share your opinions on NLP tools!
- September 2023: We are hiring! See our job page
Events
- Janet Liu (Georgetown University) will be giving an on-site talk on September 25, 2023
- Dr. Lea Frermann (University of Melbourne) will be giving an on-site talk on July 14, 2023
- Prof. Barbara Plank participated in a hearing at the Bavarian parliament on ChatGPT in academia Anhörung zur Künstlichen Intelligenz im Wissenschaftsbetrieb on June 23, 2023
- Dr. Yves Scherrer (University of Helsinki) will be giving an on-site talk on June 5, 2023
- Dr. Michael A. Hedderich (Cornell University) will be giving an on-site talk on May 15, 2023
- Dr. Saif Mohammad (NRC Canada) will be giving an on-site talk on May 8, 2023
- April 25, 2023: Barbara Plank's ERC and our MaiNLP lab research is featuring in the LMU University news! "Language technologies for digital inclusion" (available also in German: "Sprachtechnologien für die digitale Teilhabe")
- Barbara Plank, Katya Artemova and Verena Blaschke will present and be panel mentors at the Munich Women in NLP get-together on April 24
Staff

Barbara Plank
Prof. Dr. and Chair for AI and Computational Linguistics, Head of MaiNLP and Co-director CIS

Siyao (Logan) Peng
Postdoc (2023–)

Leon Weber
Postdoc (2022–)

Robert Litschko
Postdoc (2022–)

Katya Artemova
Postdoc (2022–2023)

Daniela Teodorescu
PhD student (2023–)

Xinpeng Wang
PhD student (2022–)

Verena Blaschke
PhD student (2022–)

Shengqiang Zhang
Affiliated PhD student (2022–)

Joris Baan
Affiliated PhD student (2021–)

Elisa Bassignana
Affiliated PhD student (2020–2024)

Mike Zhang
Affiliated PhD student (2020–2024)

Max Müller-Eberstein
Affiliated PhD student (2020–2024)
Support Staff

Miriam Winkler
Student assistant (2023–)

Barbara Kovačić
Student assistant (2023–)

Zihang Sun
Student assistant (2023–)

Marie Kolm
Student assistant (2023)

Huangyan Shan
Student assistant (2023–)
Administrative Staff

Paravee Jungbauer
Assistant
Affiliated researchers, co-supervisors, guest researchers

Maria Barrett
Postdoc at ITU

Rob van der Goot
Assistant 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)

Alberto Muñoz-Ortiz
Guest researcher (2023), Universidade da Coruña
Collaborations
- Patrick Schwabl (2022–), external co-supervised PhD student
Support staff and student assistants for teaching
- Ercong Nie (2022–2024)
- Shija Zhou (2022–2024)
- Ivo S. Bueno Júnior (2023-2024)
- Chaeeun Lee (2022-2023)
- Bolei Ma (2022–2023)
You?
Join us! →Open positionsMaiNLP resources and code
You can find resources (data, code, repositories) released by MaiNLP lab members on our github page and on our huggingface pageFunding
Our research is supported by and we thank our sponsors:- European Research Council (ERC)
- Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond (DFF)
- Freistaat Bayern
- Bayerisches Forschungsinstitut für Digitale Transformation
- Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML)
Find us
We are located at Akademiestraße 7, 80799 Munich, Germany (→ directions).MaiNLP
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