Emil-Fischer-Str. 50,
CAIDAS Building (Building 50)
Campus Hubland Nord
Room 02.004
DE-97074 Würzburg, Germany
Emil-Fischer-Str. 50,
CAIDAS Building (Building 50)
Campus Hubland Nord
Room 02.004
DE-97074 Würzburg, Germany
I am a Professor at the University of Würzburg, holding the Chair for for Natural Language Processing (Informatik XII) at the Faculty of Mathematics & Computer Science, and a member of the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (CAIDAS). My main interests are in computational semantics and multilingual & low-resource representation learning. I also work toward democratization of language technologies: fair and sustainable NLP as well as NLP applications in social sciences and humanities.
Previously I worked as an Assistant Professor at the University of Mannheim, Data and Web Science Group (Sep 17 to Sep 21) and Interim Associate Professor at the LMU Munich, Center for Information and Language Processing (Oct 21 to Mar 22). Before that I was a researcher at the Text Analysis and Knowledge Engineering Lab, University of Zagreb, where I completed my doctorate in 2014 under the supervision of Jan Šnajder.
Apr 26: Two papers accepted for ACL'26: "Compositional Steering" (Main) and "One Script" (Findings)
Mar 26: I received an Outstanding Senior Area Chair (SAC) Award at EACL 2026!
Mar 26: Gregor Geigle completes his PhD on Multilingual Vision-Language Models with summa cum laude! Well done Gregor!
Jan 26: "Mind Your Special Tokens in VL Embedding Models" accepted for EACL 2026 (collab with Elio and Giovanni from Uni Bari)!
Aug 25: Three papers accepted for EMNLP 2025: mHallucinations (Main), TransAlign (Findings) and ReCoVeR!
July 25: Fabian David Schmidt finishes his PhD, completing his thesis with highest honours (summa cum laude)! Well done Fabian!
May 25: 8 papers accepted for ACL '25 (4 x Main + 4 x Findings)!
Jan 25: ObscuraCoder (collaboration with Indraneil Paul & Iryna Gurevych @ TU Darmstadt) accepted for ICLR 2025!
Oct 24: 4 papers accepted for EMNLP (2 x proceedings, 2 x findings): FOCI, NLLB-LLM2Vec, LVLM-hallucinations & MANNeR!
Aug 24: Oustanding Paper Award at ACL for IRCoder!
May 24: Two long papers accepted for ACL (main conference): Babel-ImageNet & IRCoder!
Apr 24: Two long papers accepted for NAACL (main conference): SQATIN & Translate or not-to-Translate!